Google Verify Website

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  godin3 · Member · Apr 4, 2015 at 5:34 pm

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  Hi. I was able to verify http://godin3.com. However, Google “recommends” that I also verify the “www” version as well, but I can’t figure out how to do it, since I can’t isolate/open http://www.godin3.com.

  Is this possible or even necessary? For instance, in Google Webmaster Tools, I can’t set http://godin3.com as my “preferred” domain until I verify the “www” version.

  Thank you in advance!!!

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

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  doncharisma · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 1:01 pm

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  Personally I only verified the non-www version of my domain – http://DonCharisma.org and works fine with Google Webmaster Tools. I also appear in Google results and they send me plenty of traffic.

  Google’s help page actually says – “You may need to verify ownership of both the www and non-www versions of your domain.” … It doesn’t however say “You MUST” …

  So my opinion is that it’s unnecessary.

  In any case it doesn’t seem to me to be a WordPress.com problem (which is what this forum is for). All your WordPress site does is take a token (which Google provide) and put it on the page so Google can see ii :)

  So it seems more of a support issue with Google Webmaster Tools, which you should be speaking to Google about, not us !

  Here’s the Google help page – https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231?hl=en

  Hope this helps

  Don Charisma

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  doncharisma · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 1:03 pm

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  ii=it

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  godin3 · Member · Apr 6, 2015 at 6:46 pm

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  Thanks! I’m not going to sweat it.

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  doncharisma · Member · Apr 7, 2015 at 6:06 am

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  You’re welcome :)

  Cheers

  Don Charisma