Google Webmaster Tools is one of the most powerful free toolkits at your disposal for making sure Google can crawl your website properly.
In order to use Google Webmaster tools for your website, you need to verify it with Google to prove that you own the website.
There are two ways to do this:
- Uploading a special file to your website
- Adding a Meta Tag to your website.
With WordPress, it can be confusing how to do this. This video shows you how to verify your WordPress Website in Google Webmaster Tools using the Meta Tag method.
Once your site is verified, you can use Google Webmaster Tools to do all sorts of diagnostics on your site. For example:
- Submit an XML sitemap for your site (I use this WordPress Plugin to automatically update my XML sitemap)
- Discover any problems Google might have crawling your site
- Discover any duplicate content issues on your site
- See what keywords people are using to find you
- See what sites are linking to your website
- Check your Page Load Speed
- And a TON more.
Trust me, this is an indispensable tool and you’ll want to set it up for your website.
Update: Google has added a third and easier verification method now. If you already have Google Analytics installed on your site, Google Webmaster Tools can use it to verify your site – no need for meta tags or file uploads!
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Thanks for the great video. It was clear and precise and I was happy that I could actually watch you explain it to me in the bottom right corner. It felt more personal. Thanks again.
Jai
Thanks Don ! You made it simple and clear!
Speaking as a complete html newbie – this video was crystal !!! So easy to follow!!! Thank you very much
Hi,
Thanks a million, it took me days to find the hilp I Needed. Thanks again
Didn’t have any success. Might be because of the theme being a child theme… and using WP-supercache.
Thanks for posting this video, it was a great help for a Wordpress newb.
I want to take a moment to thank you for the helpful video. I was rather confused on how to complete this task with Wordpress but this video made it easy. Thank you!
Thanks so much for this! I was about to give up until I found your video!
really nice video, this video help me how to register webmaster tool for my domain
Hi dear,
Great info and thanks for sharing.
Thanks it was easy to follow, and I added the code successfully to my WordPress blog.
This was a great video. Very clear and informative.
So helpful, thank you!
This was very helpful. You directions were clear and I had no problem verifying… Blessings! C.Jay
Excellent!!! this is what I wanted. After two and half hours of head scratching and reading through forums/blogs/troubleshoots/supports finally I found this. well done.
I do have my WordPress but I’m not touching it. Still learning about those scripts that I should apply. There’s more.
Hi Don, thanks for this video – it os very clear.
However, I still can’t seem to verify my wordpress blog (using latest version of wordpress – Matala theme).
The problem is that underneath where it says “Appearance” on the left hand column, there is no “Editor” link, so I cant access the HTML.
Does anyone know if this is something that wordpress have done so that you purchase an upgrade? Apparently to get to the CSS Editor I have to purchase something called the Custom Design upgrade???
Is this correct?
Thanks for ANY help!
Hi Tracy,
If you are using WordPress 3.3 you should have a nice Admin Bar at the top of your page so you can edit any page or post easily.
If not, is there a way to contact your theme publisher? Don’t they provide any support?
thanks so much for that.
Thank you so much for the video!! I’m not web savvy and was having trouble figuring out where the header page of my blog was, and where in the header to put the meta file.
Thanks for the clear informative video. It made the job very easy.
I was having a lot of trouble verifying. I tried every suggestion on this page, and the only thing that worked was….. Download the plugin “Google Verify” and then activate the plugin and click verify!! Took seconds and worked great!
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