Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 3:31 PM
Webmaster Level: AllFor webmasters with self-hosted WordPress blogs, there’s now a Webmaster Tools site verifcation plugin for Wordpress that completely automates our verification process! You can install it directly from the “Install Plugins” control panel built into your WordPress blog, or you can download the ZIP file from the WordPress plugin site. This plugin can only be used by self-hosted WordPress blogs; it can’t be installed on blogs hosted on wordpress.com.
With verified ownership of your site in Webmaster Tools, you can receive specific statistics and information (e.g. relevant search queries, malware notices) about your site directly from Google. For recent news about verification for other types of sites, please see our recent blog post, “Your fast pass through security.”
25 comments:
Returned a fatal error when I tried to activate it. Tried via direct, via ftp
Thanks for the feedback, Mike. Which version of Wordpress are you using?
It failed for me as well, I'm runing WordPress 3.1.1
It appears to be an oauth related error.
Dave
The plugin page on WordPress.org says: "This plugin needs WordPress 5.0 (or greater)...". Pretty hard to meet that requirement!
Thanks for this plugin. No problem for us to activate it.
Just for info, on the plugin page of wordpress website, requirements indicate "WordPress 5".
This will be great plug n which will help million of wordpress blog owners
download count is 845 now. i am sure it will be used by millions in a few days... :)
Thanks Google...
Now this will save a lot of trouble trying to insert code. Thanks. :)
thanks for writing this plugin, I'll try it out asap. I sounds like it gives you malware notices from within wordpress admin, any chance you're also working on getting the rest of the webmaster features to show in there too? Better google analytics integration with the wordpress admin area would be awesome too!
great. It will easy to confirm site in webmasters.
Thanks Google. It works just fine for me.
Got the following:
Verifying your blog... failed, due to an error:
Error calling https://www.googleapis.com/siteVerification/v1/webResource?verificationMethod=META&alt=json: (400) The necessary verification token could not be found on your site."
I guess the plugin should make available in Wordpress Plugins Gallery so that it is directly installed and get authenticated through login
Gave me an error also.
Verifying your blog... failed, due to an error:
Error calling https://www.googleapis.com/siteVerification/v1/webResource?verificationMethod=META&alt=json: (400) The necessary verification token could not be found on your site.
Using WordPress 3.1.1.
Got a similar error as many of the other people here. Hey, Google, can you give us an idea of why it works for some and not for others? Thanks.
I am also having a problem. I tried verifying my site. I was told the verification failed. I decided to try again later when I had more time. Now I am trying to verify, all the instructions say click on the verify button next to my site in my webmaster tools. There is no button. Is my site already verified? I must admit, I am confused. I still get no data on my site. Help please?
Fatal error !
for the first run !
I am getting Error.
oh good job...I can wear them with the perfect
It failed for me as well using Wordpress 3.1.2 and my server meet the requirements.
Not sure if it has something to do with Thesis tho :(
Are there options for those of with blogs hosted on wordpress.com? I'd really like to see more detail about how my site appears to Google.
I am a web designer who creates wordpress sites for small businesses so they can update their sites on their own. Generally, I move the entire site at once, which is cost effective for the small business owner. I have noticed that two of my clients have dropped off of Google after being moved. One went from having 20 or so pages to having 200 pages of content. I don't see any obvious SEO errors. We fix webmaster tools errors weekly. I have started setting up nofollows for archives, pagination, tag pages. I don't see how a small business owner could afford to move a site over a little at a time. I feel like the hoops I have to go through to not look like spam make it impossible for a small business owner to get a new site and get back up on the rankings. Can you give me any advice on making the move easier for the small business owner?
Hi everyone i get an error used this plugin google+ plugin version 1.3.3 "PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'apiCacheException'" in my Wordpress page with the following message "Could not create storage directory: /tmp/apiClient/a9' " i created this folder by myself into wp-content/plugins/google/lib/external/google/cache/tmp/apiClient/a9 with chmod 775 but same error again. It would be nice if someone can help me.
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