четверг, 22 октября 2009 г.

Google Webmaster Tools verification

Google Webmaster Tools verification

Google Webmaster Tools provides useful stats and analysis of your site, but Google can only share this information with owners of the site. You can verify your site by uploading an HTML file or by adding a meta tag to your home page.



Why verify your site?

Privacy is important to Google, which is why Google Webmaster Tools asks you to prove you own a site before showing you stats and data about it. Verification doesn't affect PageRank or affect your site's performance in Google's search results.

To verify that you own a site, you can either add a meta tag to your home page (proving that you have access to the source files), or upload a specific HTML file to your server (proving that you have access to the server). Webmaster Tools will check to see that the file or tag is present. If it is, Google considers you a site owner and will show you site details.

Update (October 1, 2009): Google has recently changed the way it handles verification. 

  • Meta tag: The format of the meta tag has changed. It now looks like this: <META NAME="google-site-verification" CONTENT="+nxGUDJ4QpAZ5l9Bsjdi102tLVC21AIh5d1Nl23908vVuFHs34="/>
  • HTML filePreviously, if your website returned an HTTP status code other than 404 for non-existent URLs, you would be unable to use the file verification method.  You no longer need to do this. Now, you just download the HTML file we provide and upload it to your site without modification. 

More information on the Google Webmaster Central blog.

In addition, this update changes the verification process for new blogs hosted on Blogger. As a result, new blogs hosted on Blogger will now have to use the meta tag verification method, instead of verifying directly from the Blogger dashboard.

To verify your Blogger blog:

  1. On the Webmaster Tools home page, click Add a site.
  2. Enter your blog's URL (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com) and click Continue.
  3. On the Verification page, select the Meta tag verification method and copy the meta tag provided.
  4. Sign in to Blogger.com.
  5. From the Blogger Dashboard, click the Layout link for the blog you are verifying.
  6. On the Layout tab, click Edit HTML.
  7. Paste the meta tag (copied in step 3) immediately after the <head> element within the template HTML, and click Save template.

Комментариев нет:

Отправить комментарий