Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Webmaster Level: AllYou may have seen our recent announcement of changes to the verification system in Webmaster Tools. One side effect of this change is that blogs hosted on Blogger (that haven't yet been verified) will have to use the meta tag verification method rather than the "one-click" integration from the Blogger dashboard. The "Webmaster Tools" auto-verification link from the Blogger dashboard is no longer working and will soon be removed. We're working to reinstate an automated verification approach for Blogger hosted blogs in the future, but for the time being we wanted you to be aware of the steps required to verify your Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools.
Step-By-Step Instructions:
In Webmaster Tools
1. Click the "Add a site" button on the Webmaster Tools Home page
2. Enter your blog's URL (for example, googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com) and click the "Continue" button to go to the Manage verification page
3. Select the "Meta tag" verification method and copy the meta tag provided
In Blogger
4. Go to your blog and sign in
5. From the Blogger dashboard click the "Layout" link for the blog you're verifying
6. Click the "Edit HTML" link under the "Layout" tab which will allow you to edit the HTML for your blog's template
7. Paste the meta tag (copied in step 3) immediately after the <head> element within the template HTML and click the "SAVE TEMPLATE" button
In Webmaster Tools
8. On the Manage Verification page, confirm that "Meta tag" is selected as the verification method and click the "Verify" button
Your blog should now be verified. You're ready to start using Webmaster Tools!
42 comments:
great post! would you also help out Wordpress Bloggers as you did for Blogger.thank you,artie
Yeah, how about wordpress blogger?
same here what about blogsome blogger?
I am trying to add the meta tag for verification into my blog template, but it only works for the classic templates.
If I change the template and add again the meta tag, it is not recognized
What is the problem?
Also, I read in some sites that the verification can be done by accessing the Webmaster Tools on Tools & Resources of Blogger dashboard. However I have not this option (webmaster tools) inside the Tools & Resources tab
I have modified the blogger template, and it has been working fine. As far as I can understand, if you can add the meta tag in the head section by editing the HTML source, your blog will be verified, whichever blogging platform you're using.
A helpful post, but webmaster allowed verification of blogger blogs way back.
Verification was easy thanks!
However, every attempt I make at making a site map does not work and has fail status.
I have tried every suggested method via sites and forums. Work at first then fail message.
The thingy...
http://XXXXX.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://xxxx.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
Without ability to upload xml... all blogger sitemaps suggestions fail after a few hours?
Any other methods suggested?
Or is it even relevant to use a sitemap when publishing via blogger/feedburner?
Thanks,
Chris
This would be useful if it actually worked. On two of my sites, Webmaster Tools reverts to the uploaded file every time I try to switch it. It doesn't retain the meta tag verification.
@Chris S, can you post the URL of the site where this is happening? Feel free to use a URL shortener if you prefer. Thanks!
@EHS Director, you don't have to submit Sitemap files for Blogger sites -- it's all handled for you automatically :-)
@RKA WordPress.com has information on verification at http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
thanks google!
you don't have to submit Sitemap files for Blogger sites
Kinda figured as pages are crawled well.
THANKS!
When I visit my blog throught Google Chrome I receive the message that my page contains stuff of a page that is considered dangerous, www.elminiportal.com. This does not happen throught Firefox. I verified my blog with Webmaster tools (everything is OK), but the warning messages appears again.
1. I tried a meta tag, but when I insert the meta tag below head and click save the template, the code disappeared and when I check again, the code has disappeared
2. I tried to download the html, but I can upload it to blogspot because these features are not provided.
3. when I click the link webmaster tools at the bottom of my blogger account, webmaster page appears and still shows I have not verified
how do I verify?
http://andayuna.blogspot.com
Hi
Great post i think it is very helpfull to promote the blog on search engine and people can really enjoy after reading thi sblog.
a helpful post. thank's :)
very good article helpful for bloggers
Really good update! I've implemented it with my blog.
Good job google..
I have added metafile to my blog http://stockerama.blogspot.com/ but google wont verify. Why not? any ideas?
thanx for the great Service.
My site http://www.radiogsr.co.cc have been verified by google but still not index yet. Please help me
After submit sitemap, i've got warning like this:
Invalid tag value
This XML tag has an invalid value
Parent tag: entry
Tag: link
Attribute: length
Value: 0
What should I do?
my blog is http://wirawanlaksono.blogspot.com
Thanks for gift me a respone
Very helpful post. Thank you for sharing!
thank you
I tried this method 2 months a go and it worked, But now it don't work.
it seems that this google tool have problems these days; any one have more infooo?
thanks man
i can verified my google web now
http://www.javakios.com
thanks a alot. your post was useful, after many hours of trying, i have been able to verify 2 of my blogs:
naijajobsinfo.blogspot.com
nigeriajobscareers.blogspot.com
by pasting the meta tag on edit HTML section of the blog layout.
This must be an old recomnendation because there is no such thing as a verify submission on this site page. I need to know how to get a meta tag directly for my site.
how do you know that its verified.? i've done the meta tag. but i still can't search my blog in google.
help.
Thank You! After multiple attempts using help from various sites, this finally worked!
thanx for info
Im having a problem veryfing one of my websites. Have tried all options but not working! Any suggestions
just a question of a fool, how to add the code from markosweb into ismyblog.blogspot.com ?
Dear all,
Now I have a problem after I verified
my blogger. I changed my blogger templated and I fotgot copy the meta tag.
Now the webmaster for this blog still working, but I seem it is not correct data.
Someone can explain to me how to get back the meta when I forgot it??
Thanks.
3. Select the "Meta tag" verification method and copy the meta tag provided
are you sure got this provide?I can't found it.Thanks for answer^^
I have seen the error while doing the steps above..
"More than one widget was found with id: Navbar1. Widget IDs should be unique."
For days now I've been trying to add the verify code ID to my blogger: http://www.divinethunder.com. I've been going in circles trying to find the "Edit HTML" link everywhere I could look, by following Google directions. Under "Layout" in my dashboard there is no "Edit HTML" link, therefore I don't have access to my source code.
Besides obtaining my verification code, I also got the Google Analytics snippet that I would like to add. In the event that I can eventually access the "Edit Template" window, can I add both?
Anil, you replied to my query, On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Anil wrote:
Anil has left a new comment on the post "Verifying a Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools":
"I have seen the error while doing the steps above..
"More than one widget was found with id: Navbar1. Widget IDs should be unique."
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying, Anil. I didn't even know I had a widget Navbar id. I recently added Google Analytics to establish my authorship (it was the easiest way). Are you saying that there are two separate Widget ids in my HTML? and if so, what can I do?
thank you for this. you should link here from the official help, because it wasn't helpful.
Hi everyone,
Since over a year has passed since we published this post, we're closing the comments to help us focus on the work ahead. If you still have a question or comment you'd like to discuss, free to visit and/or post your topic in our Webmaster Central Help Forum.
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The Webmaster Central Team
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