Add Yandex.Webmaster meta tag to the blog (it's like a Google)

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    avesett · Member ·

    Hello. There is a great searh-engine in Russia – Yandex (http://yandex.ru). It has tools like a Google, and also it is check the site by the meta tag. So I want to add this meta tag to my blog.

    Meta tag looks like:
    <meta name=’yandex-verification’ content=’b1bef26ccd8a64′ />

    b1bef26ccd8a64 – changing personal code (id).

    p.s. Yandex – is very popular in Russia and other counties like Ukrain. May be you can add the opportunity to add this meta as a Google, Bing and Pinterest?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    spbfingers · Member ·

    Hey avesett,

    I think I found the solution to our problems.

    Go to : Appearance>Editor>Header (header.php)

    That will bring up the theme code you can edit. Under ‘<meta charset=”<?php bloginfo( ‘charset’ ); ?>”>’ paste the yandex meta tag.

    update the file.

    go back to yandex and verify your ownership.

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    timethief · Member ·

    @spbfingers
    That will not work on any free hosted WordPress.COM blog. Please do not post WordPress.ORG answers into any threads on this WordPress>COM support forum. It causes confusion.
    http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    @avesett
    This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture. We WordPress.COM bloggers cannot access metadata. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

    That being said it’s of interest to note meta titles, meta descriptions and keyword metatags are not required for SEO purposes and Matt Cutts of Google has said that as far back as 2009. Search engines are focused on keywords in your content. What is important is keywords found in your content. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/

    To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/ Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

    WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.

    All About SEO on WordPress.com

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    avesett · Member ·

    @timethief

    Thnaks a lot for your answer.

    I’m really agree that wordpress.com has great seo, but not for russian area of Internet. That’s why I was interested in adding Yandex into wordpress.com control panel, because it will really up seo in the russian area. But as far as I see, it will never been done. Ok, had to use only “english” search engines.

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