DNS Option Not Showing up
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Hi, I am trying to get to the DNS option under domains by following instructions but it’s not showing up at all. Thanks!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Specifically, please state exactly what you wish to accomplish.
Custom DNS records are only available if you already added a custom domain to your blog.
From: https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/custom-dns/ -
Thank you! My end goal is to verify our domain with Google News: https://en.support.wordpress.com/verifying-your-domain-with-google/
Should I create a custom domain? If so, I don’t want any of my current wordpress settings to change, nor do I want anything to re-route though.
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Good Morning –
You will need a custom domain to edit the DNS as shown in that tutorial.
Custom domains are included in our plan upgrades which are renewed annually. Check out wordpress.com/pricing/ to see which option is best for you. You can add the plan to your account right form that page.
Next, register your domain by going to My Sites > Domains > Add New
Without a custom domain you’d need to click on the “use these instructions to verify your domain name using a meta tag” instructions linked in the first paragraph of https://en.support.wordpress.com/verifying-your-domain-with-google/
Let me know if you have any questions about this.
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You can see that the Google News dashboard here: https://partnerdash.google.com/partnerdash/d/news#p:id=pfehome
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Thank you!! Yes I tried to go the other route as well which is using the meta tag but I’m not sure what I am doing. Any chance you are able to point me in the right direction with this? Or should I contact google? Thanks again so much!!
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Which step are you having trouble on? https://en.support.wordpress.com/verifying-your-domain-with-google/
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We cannot add anything to the <header> area. There is no metadata access.
If you choose to remain having your site hosted here please read on.
re: search engine discoverability
It can take weeks for search engines to index your site content. Please read this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/ so you know we have no control over search engines positioning or appearance in the SERPs (search engine page results).
To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com hosted 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.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
To gain search engine attention, I recommend that you start publishing posts (not pages) https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ frequently. That’s because it can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL.
WordPress.COM SEO resources that you may want to consult are:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/six-seo-factors-you-should-know/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/ -
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