mkirkwag
Member
Posted 3 years ago #
I'm having a heck of a time verifying my site in order to use webmaster tools. The instructions are here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/verify?hl=en
All you have to do is either upload an html page or enter a meta tag after the <head> tag and before the </head> tag. Well, I can't find those tags, and I can't seem to upload an html file in such a way that it can be seen from within my site. I'm sure I'm missing a basic step. I've tried putting in various folders...I'm sure someone know how you do this, though. Would you mind sharing? Thanks in advance.
The head tags are most likely in your theme's header.php.
mkirkwag
Member
Posted 3 years ago #
Thanks. That's where I was entering it (among other places :-) ) - I thought the problem was that the html wasn't exactly what google was describing - it's
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
so I must be in the wrong place, but that wasn't it. I was sending google to http://www.tribeofadmins.com instead of just tribeofadmins.com. I thought I'd tried that before I posted this, but I went through so many iterations that I guess I missed it. With your little push to go back to it, I tried it (again, I thought), sent google to the site without the www and it worked. Sorry it turned out to be a silly question.
wendyww
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
I tried editing various them pages and using 2 different plug-ins. Neither worked. Nor did adding a page to my site. But adding the page to the root directory of my web server seems to have done it.
Note: google says they made some changes today to how it works. That might have messed up the plug-ins. I donno.
