Google Webmaster Verification
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Hello Internet Friends,
I have attempted to paste the html meta tag into the available tools section to verify ownership of my blog at least 150 times. I have logged out of gmail. I have logged out of wordpress. I have restarted my computer. Every single time the same message appears: “we couldn’t find the verification meta tag.”
I have followed google’s video instructions. I have read the word pre instructions. I have been at this, simply pasting and hitting verify, for over an hour. What am I doing wrong?
Please help. I’ll give you a virtual hug or some kind of virtual anything you would deem fit as compensation. I can’t remember being this angry at anything for as long as I’ve been alive. Help me wordpress community, you’re my laptop’s only hope of not getting smashed for insubordination.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there. Are you getting the error message on wordpress or on Google webmaster tools?
I’m just guessing here, but the problem could have been caused by your closing the webmaster tools page when you went to your blog. Try opening two tabs/windows at once in your browser. In one, open your blog’s dashboard at the Tools ->Available Tools screen. In the other, open Google Webmaster Tools (make sure you’re logged in to your google account)
Again enter your blog’s address (without http:// in front) and generate the html meta tag. Then copy it and WITHOUT CLOSING THAT TAB, go to your blog and paste the meta tag, then save at the bottom of the page.
Again WITHOUT CLOSING THAT TAB, go back to the webmaster one and click verify. (Just in case, here’s the link to the support doc if you want to double check anything: http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/#google-webmaster-tools)
If you run into trouble again, let us know at exactly which step of the process.
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Hi Kokkleh,
I tried doing exactly what you described in different tabs, different windows, and even on three different browsers. In every circumstance, the Google Webmaster page was left open and the error message would appear on the Google page when I clicked verify. Same problem every time, “can not find meta tag.”
I’m truly did try this every conceivable way. I followed those instructions perfectly, every time. I’m a very tech savvy person, and my job revolves around social media and blogging.
I appreciate the reach-out and if we can get to the bottom of this soon that would be fantastic. This is a blog that I have begun construction of for a start-up company, and the GoogleWebmaster Analytics gives extremely valuable information that can be presented to investors.
I’m no dummy. I simply don’t understand why this will not work.
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Is your blog visibility private? That is to say are blocking search engines? To change blog visibility to Public go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading scroll to Site Visibility and choose option 1
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ -
Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content by using this guide http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/ it 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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the GoogleWebmaster Analytics gives extremely valuable information that can be presented to investors.
Are you trying to verify your website via Webmaster Tools or are you trying to connect Google Analytics? The latter is not available on WordPress.com blogs.
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Timethief,
the blog is currently set to private. I am shocked that I did not logically deduce the fact that if it’s invisible to the public then a search engine would not be able to find it and verify it. Will setting it to public, verifying it, and then setting it back to private allow Google Webmaster to maintain the verification?
Kokkleh,
I am trying to verify via Webmaster Tools. A big reason is to gain access to the geo-location settings. I may have miscommunicated by writing Google Analytics. Webmaster Tools will still supply in-depth information about site traffic, SERP, and another SEO related information. Correct?
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Webmaster Tools will still supply in-depth information about site traffic, SERP, and another SEO related information. Correct?
Honestly, I’m not sure, not really using it myself. I just wanted to check as you used the word “Analytics” in your response. But according to the support doc it seems to give some of that data.
I’m don’t know if it will maintain verification if you set the site back to private after verifying. Perhaps you should try the Google support forums for a definitive answer on that one. Of course, you can just try it yourself and just see what happens.
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No. It must be public to be crawled. See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Bottom line: It doesn’t matter if you verify at all. Provided the site is not blocking search engines, your content will still be crawled and indexed.
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