Link from Google to Free WordPress

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  alexpmarshall · Member · Jul 26, 2014 at 9:23 pm

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  I have searched high and low for an answer to this:

  How do I link my Google+ account to a free wordpress.com account?

  Google+ asks me to do this:

  By adding a short line of code to http://alexmarshallguitarlessons.wordpress.com/, you can make your Google+ page eligible to show up on the right-hand side of the Google search page for relevant queries and make your Google+ page more discoverable. Learn more
  Ask your site’s webmaster to add the following line of code to your site’s homepage:
  Google+
  You can also email these instructions to your webmaster

  I have pasted this code into the text on my homepage, but when I ‘Test website’ from Google+ I get this error message:
  “Check that the line of code has been added to your site’s homepage and that the modified homepage is live on your site. Then try testing again.”

  I feel like I have achieved this for another free wordpress blog, but can’t make it work.

  Any help?

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 26, 2014 at 10:33 pm

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  You go to your Settings->Sharing page and you enable it under Publicize.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/google-integration/

  Note that when you do this your username switches to whatever it is on G+.

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  alexpmarshall · Member · Jul 27, 2014 at 3:27 pm

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  Thanks for the quick reply raincoaster. I had already done this and I think this is a slightly different issue.

  Here’s Google’s page on the steps I was trying to take:
  https://support.google.com/business/answer/4569085?p=link_page_to_website&rd=2

  However, I tried it again with seemingly no difference to the code I entered and it worked. I am baffled anyway