A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post, How to Add Google Sitemap to WordPress.com Blog?, which showed you how you can submit your blog’s feed to Google Webmaster Tools account. Now you might wonder how you can get your WordPress.com blog verified by Google too. It seems it is impossible to do that because we don’t have controls of our files; but hope is always there. The article, Get your WordPress.com Blog Google Verified, will guide you the way of how to do that. Still I want to show you the way I got my WordPress.com blog verified here:
- Go to Google Webmaster Tools account. If you don’t have one, get a Free one here.
- Once you got one; sign in with it.
- If this is the first time you sign in, then type your blog’s/website’s URL (the address for your blog/website) in the text field and click on Add Site.
- Under Verified? click on Verify button
- A new window is shown; saying Verification Status: NOT VERIFIED.
- In the drop-down list; choose Upload a HTML File.
- More information will be shown here. Here you have two choices to submit your blog/website:
- I’ve created a file named google2ae4cd3d07afcb8a.html.
(google2ae4cd3d07afcb8a.html is given by Google. You’ll get your own)
- I’ve uploaded the file to http://yoursitename.wordpress.com/ and can view http://yoursitename.wordpress.com/google2ae4cd3d07afcb8a.html in my browser.
(Make sure you replace yoursitename with your own domain name.)
- Since you know we don’t have controls of our files; so we’ll go for the choice 1.
- Go to your WordPress.com Dashboard, click on Write/Page to create a new page named http://yoursitename.wordpress.com/google2ae4cd3d07afcb8a.html. This page can be empty. Make sure you change yoursitename to be your own domain name. (Keep it private once Google has verified your blog/website)
- Go back to your Google Webmaster Tools account and click on Verify button.
Now wait for Google to update your status. Google Webmaster Tools will inform you once your blog/website are being verified. After you’ve succeeded, you will enjoy reports about your pages’ visibility on Google.
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22 responses so far ↓
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ejahnke // June 18, 2008 at 10:12 am |
Ah! Directions in plain English….
Thank you very much for this!
anonyjw // June 25, 2008 at 10:29 am |
Doesn’t work for wordpress.com pages.
How can you create a page like that? I’m not allowed to do that on my blog.
Lanna // June 25, 2008 at 5:55 pm |
Hello Anonyjw,
I checked your blog. It does provide pages such as About and Comment? So you can create a new page the same way you’ve created Comment? page. More specifically you click on Write/Page on your WordPress.com Dashboard to create a new page and save it as http://yoursitename.wordpress.com/google2ae4cd3d07afcb8a.html where you have to change yoursitename to be your own blog name and google2ae4cd3d07afcb8a.html to be your own file name which is given by Google Webmaster Tool Account. It should work.
Serve to get served // July 28, 2008 at 5:37 pm |
Very nice indeed. Well done! man. Great Job
debizyx // September 13, 2008 at 6:55 pm |
Keeping the google page private doesn’t seem to work – I followed your instructions exactly, and in fact my site was verified. Then I changed the page back to private, and after a few days, it became un-verified again.
Just re-verified it, and am now trying with keeping the page “pending approval”. I hope that works …
Lanna // September 22, 2008 at 5:01 pm |
Hello Debizyx;
Is your website being verified again? You can leave the new page in the public if you want. Personally I think it doesn’t look good there. That is why I keep it private.
Yes. Every time when you see ‘verified’ in Google Webmaster Tool, then you need to verify it again. I’ve been successful every time when it was required for that.
ahrcanum // October 15, 2008 at 5:31 pm |
ta da. I did it, 1st try.
mazdink // December 23, 2008 at 10:15 pm |
thank you for the trick, my site is now verified and I let the verification page public.
Ashish Mishra // January 12, 2009 at 6:07 am |
hi I have just registered a blog.
http://factfundas.com
Here when i upload the page is stored in the wp-content/upload directroy. So whey i try to verify. Google Webmaster is unable to verify. Can somebody tell me how can i verify the site in this case.
Lanna // January 12, 2009 at 9:12 pm |
Hello Ashish;
Your blog address is not working.
Is this a self-hosted WordPress blog?
If this is your case, you can choose choice 2 (from above). Get the verified code from Google and paste it between <head> </header> in header.php which should be in the template’s folder that you are using (in your server). For example, mine looks like this:
public_html/wp/wp-content/themes/classicYou can access that file through FTP or log in to your WordPress dashboard. After you edited that file, uploaded it back to the same folder. Hope that helps. Let me know how it is going.
Mukesh Dak // May 23, 2009 at 4:47 am |
Great & Thanks a lot, it worked
Brian Sullivan // July 27, 2009 at 11:29 am |
Thankyou so much, I had been frustrated over the site map problem for ages. brilliant advice!
frannie84 // August 3, 2009 at 9:37 pm |
I hope you ca help. I appreciate these instructions but I’m having an issue. When I save the page it adds a whole bunch of numbers onto the URL so it can’t verity. Here’s what I get.
I changed the URL to this http://frannie84.wordpress.com/google8b648617fcb5d715-html/
and this is the URL they want me to verify
http://frannie84.wordpress.com/google8b648617fcb5d715.html
But for some reason it isn’t verifying… what did I do wrong?
frannie84 // August 3, 2009 at 9:50 pm |
Nevermind I did it sorry!
Lanna // August 3, 2009 at 10:47 pm |
Yes. It is easy to make mistakes. I am happy for you now because you made it work yourself.
wernerinamillion // October 20, 2009 at 9:01 am |
I’m having the same problem as frannie84 did. What am I doing wrong?
Lanna // October 20, 2009 at 7:10 pm |
Do you see the mistake that Frannie84 has made. It should be google8b648617fcb5d715.html
instead of google8b648617fcb5d715-html/. You’ll get different codes from Google and use it to create a file name. Then follow this post to finish your steps. It should work. Hope it helps.
wernerinamillion // October 21, 2009 at 1:06 pm |
I get this, Lanna, but it refuses to allow me to change the page’s extension.
When I set the URL to “http://thepicturesthatmove.wordpress.com/google5be6334a5a396ed1.html” wordpress automatically defaults it to “http://thepicturesthatmove.wordpress.com/google5be6334a5a396ed1-html/” and then Google can’t find it.
Lanna // October 21, 2009 at 5:31 pm |
Mmmm… It never happened to me like that. How about trying to save your file name without the “.” because obviously “-” is for a space. Let me know it works or not.
wernerinamillion // October 21, 2009 at 9:26 pm |
Still doesn’t work, I’m afraid.
Lanna // October 22, 2009 at 6:30 pm |
I am sorry to hear that. Maybe that has something to do with your Theme?
I am wondering how did frannie84 solve her problem. Maybe she can answer your question after she sees your comments one day.