
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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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. 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)? Posted by: David at October 24, 2008 2:55 PMI have just verified my blog on Google Blogger by changing the meta tag in blog template. It's very easy Posted by: Rockie at October 25, 2008 10:12 PMhei,taylor your blog is super loaded with good information,layout,template.
what can i do to for submiting it,please help me, Posted by: manivasagam at February 4, 2009 12:31 AMI 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 how to verify my website in webmaster tools?give me more informations please Posted by: Chanthirakumar at May 14, 2009 1:41 PMI 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? Posted by: cedrick at June 10, 2009 9:29 PMhow can i verify my site by using google account? I have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
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