Wednesday, August 01, 2012 at 10:15 PM
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In order to use Google services like Webmaster Tools and Google Apps you must verify that you own the site or domain. One way you can do this is by creating a DNS TXT record to prove your ownership of the domain. Now you can also use DNS CNAME records to verify ownership of your domains. This is a new domain verification option for users that are not able to create DNS TXT records for their domains.
For example, if you own the domain example.com, you can verify your ownership of the domain by creating a DNS CNAME record as follows.
- Add the domain example.com to your account either in Webmaster Tools or directly on the Verification Home page.
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Select the Domain Name Provider method of verification, then select your domain name provider that manages your DNS records or "Other" if your provider is not on this list.
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Based on your selection you may either see the instructions to set a CNAME record or see a link to the option Add a CNAME record. Follow the instructions to add the specified CNAME record to your domain’s DNS configuration.
- Click the Verify button.
When you click Verify, Google will check for the CNAME record and if everything works you will be added as a verified owner of the domain. Using this method automatically verifies you as the owner of all websites on this domain. For example, when you verify your ownership of example.com, you are automatically verified as an owner of www.example.com as well as subdomains such as blog.example.com.
Sometimes DNS records take a while to make their way across the Internet. If we don't find the record immediately, we'll check for it periodically and when we find the record we'll make you a verified owner. To maintain your verification status don’t remove the record, even after verification succeeds.
If you don’t have access to your DNS configuration at your domain name provider you can continue to use any of the other verification methods, such as the HTML file, the meta tag or Google Analytics tag in order to verify that you own a site.
If you have any questions please let us know via our Webmaster Help forum.
22 comments:
I am experiencing ranking fluctuation for last one week. My rankings are vanishing and then am getting it, currently its vanished.
I have done verification through webmaster tools that with www and without www its my website.
Is this domain verification is the reason for my ranking fluctuation?
my domain www.travelcenteruk.co.uk
I am facing rank down problem in my bookmarking website previously getting referral and search traffic but now its less than 5% so what should i do for this.
but referral and direct traffic increasing......
website is www.bookmarkingjunction.com
hm, really nice news
Domain verification tools in webmasters tools will help webmasters for easy verification. No need to verify through any other places. Thanks a lot for giving such facility in webmasters tools
I think this method becomes quite complex.DNS CNAME verification will automatically verified but why you not implement this above.
Thanks great read
Thanks for this post
Thanks my friend for this article I like it.
I´m not getting info from the 'Search Query' tool since the beginning of August. More exactly, since the 1st August...Kind of weird, right?
do you have any video guidance on the verification sites?
I have also had no search query info since August 1st. What's going on?
for suppose i'm using doomby.com and created a website using it.. but here i'm unable to get DNS nor HTML Editor for template.. so how can i resolve this problem.. , please let me know..
I have been waiting for this feature for a long time! Thanks Google!
Hi, I have a problem in verifying my subdomain. My blog is www.exoticphilippines.info then I created a subdomain hotels.exoticphilippines.info that is hosted on the other website where I am not allowed to insert meta tags, upload a html file or insert the google analytics code in the header. So I'm left with verifying it through my Godaddy account. But Godaddy does not recognize my subdomain, so i tried adding the txt record but still no good, i can't do the cname because I'm getting an error. HELP?
I have one big problem with google search ... when I and other tiping word for site , vasracunovodja.com and vasaordinacija.com ,then we have rediretcion on other site like msn or we see malware warning for this site those want... please help me to fix that ... its this DNS staff or what?
contact me on prangovac@gmail.com
(Very Urgent) Please anyone know how to get the CNAME record as step three above? or how to do the third step in the above article. I want to verify my new domain.
I could not get how to 301 redirect a google blog. I have google webmaster account for it, and analytics account for it. But, it is a blog on google, and I dont know how to do a 301 redirect on it. The linked webmaster article also does not specify anything on it. I just want to move my home page, from plain simple one to a popular link inside my site.
The guy above me is correct.
You for some odd and strange reason cannot re-verify a domain you removed from blogger under "avanced" custom domain.
I have tested this for an hour updating, DNS records like I did previously and I am unable to verify it, it will not verify.
Also the host I am with limits the characters on the cname input, so yeah, there must be another way.
Google webmaster tools does not verify the domain for blogger, nor does adsense.
Need another way to verify ownership of the domain, offer Blogger users the ability to use a TXT record, that doesn't seem to be character limited on my host.
this it is the answer i get from 1an1 when i try enter the alias in the cname setting box
Please verify the following entries before saving: Alias
The domain name you entered is too long.
Theo, have you found a way around the "The domain name you entered is too long." problem?
I tried doing this for www.warehouseinabox.com but it only seems to grab my old domain (systemslogic.ca) which is redirecting to www.warehouseinabox.com. Any ideas?
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