Verification:
1) Log into your google account through the Webmaster Tools Page.
2) Add your site
3) Go to the Statistics tab and click on the link that says verify.
4)In the web master tools section select “Upload an HTML file” as your method of verification.
5) Create a new page (not a post) and use the code they give you as the title. Example of the code:
google4f645e3adsdaa48g3a41z.html
6) Click to publish it.
7) Ask Google to verify your Blog.
Thanks to Tigre de Fogo for the tip.
July 3, 2007 at 3:20 pm |
Nice article, well written, I really like the way this site looks, I wish other autohors took the time you are to help fix there site and make it look good. Keep up the great writing!
October 10, 2007 at 7:59 pm |
if i then delete this page will their be any repercussions in terms of my indexing with Google?
April 6, 2008 at 10:01 pm |
hey thanks. =)
May 26, 2008 at 12:56 am |
great tip! thanks.
June 27, 2008 at 12:28 am |
Thank you!!!!!
August 15, 2008 at 2:00 pm |
Thanks for sharing. What if I want to delete the page with the verification title, what will happen?
August 22, 2008 at 10:47 am |
I tried this but it doesn’t work for me.. WordPress doesn’t save the page as
.html
It saves it without the .html extension so Google cannot verify.. Am I doing something wrong?
August 23, 2008 at 4:45 pm |
Thanks! Worked great.
Barbara, make the title of the new page the same as the html file name that Google give you.
August 26, 2008 at 2:18 pm |
It still knocks off the .html which Google can then no longer crawl?
Can I see where someone has done this effectively?
August 28, 2008 at 9:58 pm |
create a page, not a post. Leave the html on the title.
Make sure it’s not a post.
Troy
September 1, 2008 at 8:50 am |
Same for me — put the html in title of new page — wp returns a 404 page and google gives me a error which i copied here —
Verification status: NOT VERIFIED
Last attempt Sep 1, 2008: We’ve detected that your verification file returns a status of 404 (Not found) in the header.
So what i did was go to my site http://www.cheapcheez.com , enter my admin page for my site. Then click on Design ( the tool bar – top left of your screen ) . On the right hand side should be a column with the name – header(header .php) Click on that and it will take you right to the header file.
After you find the header file , it should look similar to this <head profile ( this is the beging of the header file, when you scrool down the end of the header file should look something like this </head .
Now stick the code ( note : this is not the upload html file method, you will be using the other method google uses to verify the site) somewhere in between those two lines of code. I copied and pasted where i put it below . Worked like a charm for me. Enjoy…..
October 2, 2009 at 12:26 am |
This worked like magic! Thanks so much.
Dawson
September 7, 2008 at 2:17 pm |
I did that. Still doesn’t work.
September 11, 2008 at 5:31 pm |
thanks sir
October 31, 2008 at 11:51 am |
Thank you very much.
I really have trouble with Google that index my site http://freshhome.wordpress.com , then I search all imformation on the Internet. Finallly, I found a good new form your web that help me more.
Thank you again.
November 18, 2008 at 6:46 pm |
after i publish the page… the google webmaster still said it said 404 not found… then i go back to my blog and uncheck the “private” thing… and finaly google able to verify itu… so make sure you’re not make the page private…
December 11, 2008 at 7:25 am |
i just did this, wordpress.com remove the . (dot) before html, but google still verified it.
thanks!
January 8, 2009 at 3:56 am |
I tried and tried to verify my blog using the new page method mentioned here and elsewhere – couldn’t make it happen. The page kept dropping the “.” before the .html extension. I ended up using Frontpage to create a new page and renamed it make it the needed Google html page in a new website. I uploaded the page to the root of the website (where my WordPress blog is housed) and everything works fine and dandy. Took less than five minutes.
February 1, 2009 at 8:45 am |
As he said, create PAGE and the past the html code that was given to you in title of the page. Dont bother about how wordpress has taken it. It doesn’t take .html extension. Still, you save it as it is. now go to google web tool page. and then ask it to verify your site. It works. as it worked for me just now.
For this info i have chking for the last 3 hours. Thank you very much sir, for ur info sharing. The same was written in my web page too.
March 18, 2009 at 4:23 pm |
Thanks to your link I got it working in no time.
Please also check google’s hints at:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/
There are heaps of useful information.
April 15, 2009 at 8:12 am |
I can tell that this is not the first time you write about this topic. Why have you chosen it again?
April 29, 2009 at 9:26 am |
Thank U!!!
June 25, 2009 at 6:25 am |
Useful tips, I have verified my blog using ur tips, Thanks a lot…
July 7, 2009 at 3:15 pm |
really
thanks a lot
smart solution
July 26, 2009 at 7:16 pm |
My wordpress.com views fell when I changed to a dot com and Google said they needed to verify if I was the owner of the site. I followed the exact instructions on this blog and scored an immediate win win! Thank you very much!
July 30, 2009 at 7:54 pm |
How do I get it to verify BUT not show as a link in my navbar? Thank you for your help!
September 23, 2009 at 1:43 pm |
Thanks! Worked perfect!
October 15, 2009 at 2:27 am |
Hi, now your tips not working anymore, as Google webmaster tool has more strict verification method:
1. Download this HTML verification file. [google???.html]
2. Upload the file to http:// ???.wordpress.com/
3. Confirm successful upload by visiting http:// ???.wordpress.com/google???.html in your browser.
4. Click the verify button below.
because now Google not only read the filename but also has specific file verification content.
October 16, 2009 at 4:21 am |
WordPress.com are still looking for a new way of doing this. See
http://en.support.wordpress.com/verifying-with-google-webmaster-tools/
October 23, 2009 at 10:42 pm |
Shame this doesn’t work !!!!! Thanks for nothing !!!
October 24, 2009 at 12:41 pm |
The method is here – Hope it helps ?
http://cliffsull.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/how-to-verify-your-blog-site-on-google-for-wordpress-com/
November 5, 2009 at 7:25 pm |
Hi there. Go to the Tools menu in your admin page and wordpress.com has a place where you can enter the meta tag.
http://www.kklservices.com
For All Your Research Needs
November 10, 2009 at 9:08 pm |
Thanks for the tips. Everything worked great for me…
November 16, 2009 at 3:51 am |
Thanks for sharing and info
November 20, 2009 at 1:35 pm |
Thanks for opening up this discussion. But my problem remain unsolved by the method on the top. May be it was valid at previous time but now i think it’s not valid.
I got my blog verified by google by using the method by ‘cliffsull’ (http://cliffsull.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/how-to-verify-your-blog-site-on-google-for-wordpress-com/)
November 26, 2009 at 10:15 am |
The Method of KKLSERVICES worked wonderful. You just have to go to the TOOLS menu in you administration page and WordPress has a special area where you can verify your blog in different Search Engines like Google or Yahoo.
Thanks a Lot!