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How do I verify my site with Google Webmaster Tools?I just learned about Google Webmaster Tools and am psyched to learn how to use them. My first puzzle, however, is how to "verify" my site with the tools. Can you explain that, please? Google is a great corporate example of what sociologists call enlightened self interest, and its Webmaster Tools demonstrate that neatly. On the surface, how nice, Google's giving us a set of tools to help us keep our Web sites clean, neat and correct. Underneath, however, Google's serving its own interests too: the Webmaster tools help enforce what it believes are best practices for site design and layout, helping minimize errors encountered by the Googlebot. Nothing wrong with that, of course, and I am a proponent of just about every tool Google makes available, from AdSense to Analytics. It's just worthwhile to understand why a big corporation like Google offers tools gratis... Now, on to the Webmaster tools. Log in to your Google account, and you should probably see something like this: ![]() I hadn't realized that I haven't verified this very site, Ask Dave Taylor, so I'll do so by clicking on "Verify" next to the listed domain name. Here's what I see: ![]() As you can read, there are two ways you can verify that you own the site. You can either add some code to the home page or you can upload a file with a specified (randomly generated) name. I'll choose the former by clicking on "Choose verification method..." and selecting "Add a meta tag": ![]() The meta tag it wants me to add to the home page of the site is: <meta name="verify-v1" content="YmMFII0ipFLcraYhOtpBkEMzX/5PUA77DyaYRsE3oYY=" />
I add this to the "index.html" page on this site and click on the "Verify" button: Done! Sweet!
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Tagged: google, google analytics, google webmaster tools Previous: Gmail: How can I have a vacation autoresponder and autoforward mail? Next: How do I delete a comment on my Facebook wall? Reader Comments To Date: 19Rockie said, on October 25, 2008 10:12 PM:
I have just verified my blog on Google Blogger by changing the meta tag in blog template. It's very easy manivasagam said, on February 4, 2009 12:31 AM:
hei,taylor your blog is super loaded with good information,layout,template.
what can i do to for submiting it,please help me, DeDe Neill said, on February 22, 2009 1:14 AM:
I am not finding this so easy. Even thou it reads like it should be a piece of cake. I tried the option 'upload an HTML file' All good, when click on given link I could view in my browser.. But cannot get my site to verify. Verification status: NOT VERIFIED The only help suggestion given that I think it could be is Which I am clue less on.. Google has not given any samples on what I should remove or add to make this work...!!! The other option to ad to the home page, which i should be able to do.. Right, if I can this far and build my own site you would think this would be a walk in the park. My site is a wordpress blog. I can't find a index.html file anywhere, I have crawled my server and looked everywhere in the dashboard of my blog. But I can find it.
Cheers DeDe Chanthirakumar said, on May 14, 2009 1:41 PM:
how to verify my website in webmaster tools?give me more informations please cedrick said, on June 10, 2009 9:29 PM:
I had verified my site and was submitting news sitemaps. But today when I try to submit the news sitemaps, it tells me that I have not verified the site. Yet, the site does not allow to re-verify it. Is there something wrong here? motto said, on August 26, 2009 7:45 PM:
how can i verify my site by using google account? Icabod said, on June 3, 2010 7:48 PM:
Brilliant. Thanks for the advice. Dennis Marshall said, on July 11, 2010 12:05 AM:
Do I really need this verification code Emyliw said, on August 20, 2010 2:23 PM:
I have my meta tag, I know where to go to verify, what I do not know is how to find my home page. Please give me step-by-step instructions on how to find my home page, I found one under 'Page' in the upper right screen corner, but I cannot paste on that one. I just need simple instructions, step-by-step on how to access my home page. olayinka said, on October 11, 2010 7:45 AM:
please help me, i was trying to verify my blog for 2 weeks nownot yet verify..it say "Verification failed. Your site's home page returns a status of 503 (Service unavailable) instead of 200 (OK)" please i what should i do... i have paste the code to my template .. and it save successful.... so i don't what is wrong..please help me naim abbassi said, on May 27, 2011 7:47 AM:
give me my google verify Themis said, on August 30, 2011 9:16 AM:
Hello olayinka, Donlolo said, on October 24, 2011 3:32 PM:
whoever trying to give instruction how to properly verify your site with google webmaster is a straight up idiot....how u gonna give instructions when all you do is copy and paste what google webmaster itself is telling how to verify...we are asking for step by step instructions....moron! Dave Taylor said, on October 24, 2011 3:51 PM:
Donlolo, if you *read* what I'd written instead of just looking at the pictures, you'd know that I am *explaining* what to do and encouraging readers to follow along with their own Webmaster Tools account and Web site. Your criticism doesn't really make sense, actually. Shah Hasanal said, on October 28, 2011 11:32 PM:
Thanks for the tutorial, Dave. Your blog has a really good setup for seo too. Awesome jishnu said, on January 24, 2012 9:28 AM:
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Yeon Sha said, on October 21, 2012 5:31 AM:
how to add my twitter account to webmaster..please help.. David said, on November 16, 2012 4:10 AM:
I recently updated my theme, so my site verification code disappeared. I re-added it to the new theme, but it doesn't appear to work. Do you know if this is normally a problem, and what I could do about it? Thanks.
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Adding the meta tag is pretty straightforward. I remember that when I used the webmaster tool for the first time, I chose creating a file with the random name given, however, it didn't work at all. The application said that it was receiving a 404 error, that is, file not found. has anybody made it work this way (random-generated filename)?