Verification

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  secretgenes · Member · Feb 1, 2016 at 10:25 pm

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  I went through google console to verify like it said and it said i need to upload the file to my site, I’m confused and not sure how to do it. I been working on it for a week. Any help would be appreciated

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2016 at 10:30 pm

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  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://rouchonimages.wordpress.com/wp-admin/tools.php

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2016 at 10:32 pm

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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

  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