Thursday, October 12, 2006

Google webmaster Tools and HOWTO verify your Blogger/blogspot.com site

There are two important things you can do with the Google Webmaster tools for your blogger site.

One -> Verify your site
and
Two -> Submit a sitemap.

What we are interested in here is verifying a Blogger site (ONE!). So here is how to do that.

** Google Webmaster Tools Verify your Blogger site. **

(1) Control your blog site through Google Webmaster tools - login/signup for Google's Webmaster tools and add your blogger site *****.blogspot.com
(2) Click on the Verify link
(3) Choose Add a Metatag - note the META tag information
(4) In New Tab (Browser): Login to your Blogger account. Click on your blog of interest and click on the template tab. After the < >> tag paste in the META tag information as found in step (3)
(5) Republish your entire blog.
(6) Go back to the Google Webmaster tools - Click Verify. You are done and your blog has been verified. The next step you'll want to do is add a sitemap.

21 comments:

ferrisbueller said...

The best advice in ages. I didn't have a clue how to get my site listed on Google searches !!

Many thanks - an excellent piece of information. :)

Anonymous said...

How do you create the sitemap for your blogger website?

Paul Cooley said...

Actually I don't create a sitemap, I use the blogger generated RSS and Atom feeds.

For instance my site's RSS: http://linuxlore.blogspot.com/rss.xml

For instance my site's ATOM: http://linuxlore.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Google will except both of these as sitemaps.

atamdas said...

ihave been trying to veryfy my blogger since two month but i was not able to veryfy but thanks to you that you has described the verification method so simple that i easily could do it

Sanjiv Kumar said...

Thanks buddy for the tip.

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HeroesEcho said...

Thanks Paul for the big help. I was trying to verify my site and had some problem with it. Your information help me a lot.

Chetan said...

Thanks a lot !
It was really useful!!

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Steve said...

Thanks for the article. Nearly two years later and it is still VERY helpful! Great job!

Anonymous said...

Right on... this worked perfectly. Now for the sitemap....

thaltrego said...

That was really helpful. i almost ripped my skin over this.

Thanx again

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Unknown said...

I have been searching for a way to verify my blogger blog for days as Googles own tools don't work. Thank you!

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Susan said...

Excellent directions.

Thank you.

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