Site verification for Google — can't find SEO on my menu
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I am trying to paste a meta tag supplied by Google into my blog. The page that explains this says ‘All of the Site Verification Services can be accessed via your Settings > SEO screen. SEO does not show up on my Settings menu.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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
See also: Make the Most of Our New SEO Settings Panel
Take control of your site and how it appears in search engines.
https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/seo-settings-panel/When you’re working on your site in the WordPress.com dashboard (access it by going to My Sites in the top-left corner of the screen), head to the Settings page and you’ll see a new SEO section.
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 will 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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Locating the SEO Settings Panel is not intuitive. Many do not have multple sites and the My Sites page is confounding for those who have a single site. Add to that that clicking into any site listed there connects to the stats page rather than to the dashboard of the site and it makes one want to scream. -
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@norma52 Hi there, just to clarify, the SEO tab in the Settings panel referred to is in the “New” Calypso Dashboard. The link for your above site would be https://wordpress.com/settings/seo/chaseplace.wordpress.com
You can enter the same information via the WP Classic Admin Dashboard, go to Settings>Tools>Available Tools and scroll down a bit until you see the Google Webmaster Verification line. For your above site that would be https://chaseplace.wordpress.com/wp-admin/tools.php
No need to paste the information in both places.
If you don’t see these tools, it might be possible that the account you are logged in with does not have an Admin role on that site and you need to be logged in with a different account to do so.
Let us know if you have any other question or need help with that.
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I see the Google meta-tag is now saved on your site so it looks like got it working, but let me know if you need any more help.
Thanks for the feedback.
Locating the SEO Settings Panel is not intuitive.
Do you have an alternative location in mind for that? The intent was to have all settings for different aspects in the site in one place, but if you have a good argument for having it somewhere else I’m happy to take it to the designers and developers.
the My Sites page is confounding for those who have a single site
Could you expand on this? If someone has only one site, only that site’s data will show on My Site and the site switcher isn’t visible at all, so I’m not sure what on that page would be confusing.
If someone has created multiple sites without realising it, then My Sites become very confusing, but we’re trying to deal with that from the signup phase to prevent people from creating multiple sites to start with if they don’t want it.
Add to that that clicking into any site listed there connects to the stats page rather than to the dashboard of the site
That should not happen. If someone is on My Site for site A and go to Settings, for example. Let’s say they then click on Switch Site and select Site B, it should go back to Settings for site B. The only time it should go back to the stats page is if you were on that page when you clicked Switch Site, or if you click My Sites directly.
If it’s going to the stats page for you in other circumstances that is a bug, so I’d appreciate it if you can explain the circumstances that leads to that happening so I can try to reproduce and get it reported.
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