I am having trouble verifying my site with google

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  barmac5 · Member · Feb 2, 2016 at 5:42 pm

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  I have followed your example to try and verify it but when I get to the part where it says ‘Click on the “Name Server and DNS” option ; I cannot find this option to click onto? I tried the other method but haven’t succeeded with that way either. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 2, 2016 at 5:45 pm

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  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the .wordpress.com blog URL * You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with your actual blog’s name in that URL.

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/tools.php and scroll down to Website Verification Services.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 2, 2016 at 5:48 pm

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  YIKES! I forgot to clear my browser and what I posted above is not for you. Please ignore it

  Go to this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/#google-search-console and follow the instructions there to the letter.

  Dashboard → Tools→ Available Tools
  scroll down

  http://backpainbloguk.wordpress.com/wp-admin/tools.php

  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.

  For more information on expediting search engine indexing of your site read > http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google