Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 1:53 PM
Webmaster level: All
To help webmasters manage the verified owners for their websites in Webmaster Tools, we’ve recently introduced three new features:
Verification details view: You can now see the methods used to verify an owner for your site. In the Manage owners page for your site, you can now find the new Verification details link. This screenshot shows the verification details of a user who is verified using both an HTML file uploaded to the site and a meta tag:
Where appropriate, the Verification details will have links to the correct URL on your site where the verification can be found to help you find it faster.
Requiring the verification method be removed from the site before unverifying an owner: You now need to remove the verification method from your site before unverifying an owner from Webmaster Tools. Webmaster Tools now checks the method that the owner used to verify ownership of the site, and will show an error message if the verification is still found. For example, this is the error message shown when an unverification was attempted while the DNS CNAME verification method was still found on the DNS records of the domain:
Shorter CNAME verification string: We’ve slightly modified the CNAME verification string to make it shorter to support a larger number of DNS providers. Some systems limit the number of characters that can be used in DNS records, which meant that some users were not able to use the CNAME verification method. We’ve now made the CNAME verification method have a fewer number of characters. Existing CNAME verifications will continue to be valid.
We hope this changes make it easier for you to use Webmaster Tools. As always, please post in our Verification forum if you have any questions or feedback.
11 comments:
Hey sounds interesting, Google always thinks to make it easier for my clients....https://twitter.com/arijit_mon
Yeah! Google greate, i try verify my blog. In tools/richsnippets i check is verify-ed, but not show in SE ...
My blog: http://infographic24h.blogspot.com/
that's why we love Google.
removing owner on webmaster, means removing the verification token as well onsite..sounds interesting..
how about blogger upgrade to domain, are we need verification again from webmaster tools or not?
When you notify a webpage owner of malware, you do not provide the person with anything useful. The page you link to
https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=168328
says to log in to webmaster tools WITHOUT EVEN SUPPLYING A LINK. Specifically it says
Request a malware review:
On the Webmaster Tools Home page, select the site you want.
Click Health, and then click Malware.
Click Request a review.
OK firstly, NO LINK is given for "Webmaster Tools Home page" -- I immedately gave negative feedback (incomplete info) but was unable to specify WHY incomplete. So anyway, I google up something and find this
Webmaster Tools
Improve your site's visibility in Google search results. It's free.
which logs me into my google account,
eg
https://www.google.com/settings/account
Nowhere on this page can I find "health" or "malware" or anything like that.
And to add insult to injury the email is sent from noreply@google, so I can't even complain, query, ask or anything from the email. Ihave to track THIS down to get ANYTHING that isn't already a CANNED form that *doesn't let me specify what the problem is*.
Oh google. This sucks.
Title relevancy and Seo score is Zero ,when i switch to Dynamic Template at Blogger ..please help me
Got an email from webmaster telling me I needed to verify my email accounts or they would be permanently removed from google. They said my account hasn't been activated but I have been using it for over a year. I tried verifying them but I didn't get any confirmation. I have my own business and need these emails to communicate. Please help.
I found a syntax error in google chrome where he did the suggestion?
This is a great option !
but the thing is chrome does not 100% support TLS1.1 and not supporting TLS1.2 so it is pain in the you-know-what to verify the tokens used.
Chrome browser on android mobile is even worse as it makes automaticly HTTPS of a HTTP link when HTTPS exist. as i use 2 webservers for my website , it is very irritating that Chrome does this, as it is up to the webserver to decide wheter it should do this or not. resulting in things messed up and pages not showing. when are this problems addressed ? it is nice to make a browser that "thinks" for the user but it is totally not working for advanced webservers like mine. I really suggest you change this behaviour as it is not conform specs.
An addition of verification details view in webmaster tool will be helpful to lots of users.
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