How To Setup And Verify Google Webmaster Tools For Your WordPress Self Hosted Blog

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can setup and verify your Google Web Master Tools for your WordPress self hosted blog. Google Webmaster Tools helps you in optimizing your blog for SEO in Google Search.

Verify WordPress Self Hosted blog in Google Webmaster Tools

So let’s see you can verify

  1. Go to Google.com/webmasters/tools/home
  2. Login to (or signup for) your Google account (you can use your Blogger.com ID and Password to login)
  3. Click on Add a site… button
  4. Type your Blogger Blog URL
  5. Then click on Continue button
  6. Add a site... button

  7. After adding your blog URL, you will see some option to verify

Once you submitted your blog URL, now you need to verify it, so let me tell you two different ways to verify your blog

1st way I will tell you using META tag

  1. Select Add a meta tag to your site’s home page radio button
  2. Now you will see a META tag copy that META tag
  3. Open your WordPress blog Dashboard
  4. Now go to Appearance –> Editor
  5. Select header.php from right side
  6. And search for <head> (you can press Ctrl+F or F3 to bring browser search box)
  7. Now past that META tag just after <head>
  8. Click on Update File button
  9. Now again go to Google.com/webmasters/tools/home
  10. If you can’t see your blog, you see something written like this
  11. Use the table below to manage verified owners of your sites or add new sites to your account. Additional information about your verified sites is available at Webmaster Tools.

    Click on Webmaster Tools link

  12. Now click on Verify this site button (at the right-hand side of your blog URL)
  13. Then again select Add a meta tag to your site’s home page radio button
  14. Then click on Verify button
  15. Add a meta tag to your site's home page

2nd way I will tell you using uploading file to server

  1. Select Upload an HTML file to your server radio button
  2. Click on this HTML verification file link (a HTML file will get downloaded)
  3. Now open your FTP root directory of your blog
  4. Upload file which you have downloaded from Google Web Master Tools
  5. Now again go to Google.com/webmasters/tools/home
  6. If you can’t see your blog, you see something written like this
  7. Use the table below to manage verified owners of your sites or add new sites to your account. Additional information about your verified sites is available at Webmaster Tools.

    Click on Webmaster Tools link

  8. Now click on Verify this site button (at the right-hand side of your blog URL)
  9. Then again select Upload an HTML file to your server radio button
  10. Then click on Verify button
  11. Upload an HTML file to your server

Note: – don’t make any changes in META tag or file which you downloaded from Google Web Master Tools.

Now your blog is verified, submit your blog sitemap so Google can index all your blog content. If you have any question or problem let me know.

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