Google Code to Verify Site Ownership

SergeF · 04-16-2007

Hi all,

Some directory owners are very curious about where to put the google code to verify site ownership. So I've decided to share the utility in this forum. Some info has been taken from the google wembasters tools page, so please, do not think it's like a plagiary or something like this since it was made for reasons of convinience.

To add a code, perform the following steps:

1. Sign into Google webmaster tools with your Google Account.
2. On the My Sites page, type the site URL in the "Add site" field. Make sure you type the entire URL, such as "http://www.domain.com/" and click "OK"
3. Click the "Verify your site" link.

Quote:

Google offers two methods of verification. You can either upload an HTML file with a name we specify, or you can add a META tag to your site's index file.

Choose "Add a meta tag" method from the dropdown list.

4. FTP to your site, get in templates/Your_current_template/ and search header.tpl file.
5. Copy the META tag and paste it in header.tpl file in the first <HEAD> section of the page, before the first <BODY> section. You can include it like this:

PHP Code:


			
<meta name="description" content="{$description|escape:"html"}" />
<meta name="keywords" content="{$keywords|escape:"html"}" />
<meta name="verify-v1" content="LeoNreP9T6iUF+kF1xnQDxADeHz+ZVhy9gqcwmk=" />    

          <script type="text/javascript" src="{$templates}/js/jquery.js"></script>

</head>
<body>

6. When done save changes and switch to you Webmasters Tools page and click the "Verify" button on it.

That's all.

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