Adding Meta Tag to Page – So Google can Index Site

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    electsingh · Member ·

    Hello, I am trying have my site appear on Google Search Results (i.e trying to have my site page be indexed by Google).

    According to Google.com/webmaster….I first need to verify my ownership. This can be done in at least two ways:

    1) Upload an HTML File Google gives you into the root directory of my site.
    2) Add a Meta Tag to your site’s home page.

    I don’t know how to carry out either option 1) or 2). Can someone please help?

    More details:
    For Option 2) the “Meta tag” that has to be placed looks something like the below….the issue is I can’t find any place to put it using the online wordpress.com page editing portal…It doesn’t seem to expose/ allow you to modify the HTML of the page? Please Help! Thanks.

    <html>
    <head>
    <meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”QIVrbb1POxf3R5ADOz5TUa4Kbha5BtIi8AukxxvZDhQ” />
    <title> My title </title>
    </head>
    <body>
    page contents
    </body>
    </html>

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture and we bloggers cannot access metadata and add anything at all to the <header> 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/

    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.
    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/

    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: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.

    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

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