Google Webmaster Tools
You may already have a Google account if you use some of their services, but if not, go ahead and sign up for one by clicking on the sign-up link on the main Google search page. Once you have your account. log in and click on My Account at the top right of the page. You will find your personal settings in the top part of the page (you can fill those out with more details), and Google services below. Click on Webmaster Tools.
You are now on the Webmasters Dashboard. where you can add your site or sites. Just type in your URL and you will find Google asks you to verify ownership. You can do this very quickly in one of 2 ways:
- By inserting a custom metatag they provide you with into the metatags on your index page;
- By putting up an HTML file on your site which has a custom name they provide you with.
Personally, I think the first option is the quickest. If you don't have any metatags yet, I'll be showing you how to create those shortly - it doesn't matter for this exercise because the snippet of code Google gives you will stand on its own. Just copy the code they supply you with and paste it at the top of your website code between the head tags.
Save your HTML file and upload it to your server. You can now go right back to the Google verification page and at the bottom below the code they've given you is a "Verify" button. Click that and you only have to wait a few seconds while Google's spiders go check your index page - verification is a very slick process!
More Tomorrow!
Patricia Howitt
1stClassWeb.Biz
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