how to verify google webmaster?

Posted by webdev2 on September 30, 2008 at 9:38pm

I am using meta tags module.

I have tried uploading a file verification which threw "file not found". Then I looked in meta tags module but found not place for it there.

Any ideas? Thanks.

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forgot to add, this is in a

Posted by webdev2 on September 30, 2008 at 9:49pm

forgot to add, this is in a multi-site install using /?q= format

did you try putting it in the root directory?

Posted by monnaliza on March 5, 2009 at 6:48am

I'm actually not very technical, but I was having the "not verified" issue with Google Webmaster. I have a multi-site setup - same drupal code base and then each website has it's own folder in the /sites directory.

So my setup is public_html/sites/mysite.com. When I put the verification file in the mysite.com directory it didn't work, so I put it in the public_html directory and it worked fine. My public_html directory has the .htaccess files plus the drupal folders like includes, modules, sites etc etc.

I setup my multisite by creating add-on sites, and they all actually point to the public_html directory and then drupal somehow magically then goes to the sites/mysite.com so I guess that's where google was looking for the file.

Hope this helps and didn't make things worse!

this works for me...

Posted by jdeer0618 on October 22, 2008 at 11:50am

I am assuming you are trying to set up Google adsense or the Google apps? For the verification process I take and create a "page node" and assuming you have the Path module enabled you can just rename the path to the file whatever Google tells you but make sure you add the dot html in the path settings, it will look like "googledjkfjowiejwfoies.html". Also I add the string of verification characters to the title and body of the "page node." This saves from having to add another module.

I hope this helps as I am not the best at explaining things.

Of course I just read that you are not using Clean URLs. Not sure if the above works. :) Sorry about that.

http://jamesdeer.net
http://textslayer.com
http://rightjustified.us

XML SiteMap

Posted by 1kenthomas on June 13, 2009 at 9:38pm

There is a field for this in XML sitemap, right ;) ?

That doesn't provide

Posted by ScoutBaker on June 13, 2009 at 10:12pm

That doesn't provide verification of site ownership. It is used for submitting the sitemap with the proper identification. You have to verify ownership first.

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Google Webmaster verification

Posted by richardjam on August 6, 2009 at 6:09pm

That's for Google ownership verification. Google Webmaster Tools propose 2 ways to verify that you are the owner of the site that you have submitted:

Meta tag verification: a code to add in tour home page, or an empty file with a specific name generated by Google. The second method will not work if you have a customized 404 page or if you redirect 404 error toward your home page.

So either change the verification method by using the meta tag verification or change the code of your 404 custom page to send a 404 header.

if it is a PHP page, you just need to put this code at the beginning of your page, before any HTML code:

<?php
header ("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");
header("Status: 404 Not Found"); 
?>

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