WordPress.com Forums » Topic: site verification http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/site-verification-2 WordPress.com Forums » Topic: site verification en Sat, 18 May 2013 18:36:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 zandyring on "site verification" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/site-verification-2#post-1153457 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:58:46 +0000 zandyring 1153457@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Susan,

Thanks so much for checking on that! We have had some experiences where users can NOT ultimately get site verification despite doing everything correctly - it doesn't affect whether Google properly indexes your site, but let's cross that bridge when we come to it.

]]> susanthunt on "site verification" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/site-verification-2#post-1151759 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:18:17 +0000 susanthunt 1151759@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi all
Many thanks for the info/ help. I will try it again and will make sure I am not using the www - although I remember reading that it should be left out so hopefully I didnt include it!
Your help is most appreciated - thanks for taking the time.
Susan

]]> zandyring on "site verification" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/site-verification-2#post-1151748 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:01:21 +0000 zandyring 1151748@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I agree - it was the very first thing I went to check because of that!

]]> auxclass on "site verification" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/site-verification-2#post-1151502 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:18:53 +0000 auxclass 1151502@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The language implied the whole thing which is a common error - and I can't see her Dashboard - thanks for double checking

]]> zandyring on "site verification" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/site-verification-2#post-1151486 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:56:56 +0000 zandyring 1151486@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi Auxclass - there is no way for you to know this, but when I checked Susan's settings she did have the correct part of the code inserted. Thank you for double-checking, though! You are right - that is also a very common error!

Cheers :)

]]> auxclass on "site verification" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/site-verification-2#post-1151087 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:43:33 +0000 auxclass 1151087@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Review step 6 in the link timethief gave you

Copy the content value of the meta tag. The content value is the bold text in this example:
<meta name='google-site-verification' content='dBw5CvburAxi537Rp9qi5uG2174Vb6JwH>

]]> zandyring on "site verification" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/site-verification-2#post-1151082 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:39:10 +0000 zandyring 1151082@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi Susan,

Can you verify what URL you are using with Google? We know that one common misconception is that you should type in http://www.yourblogname.wordpress.com - but the "www" part is not needed.

Cheers!

]]> timethief on "site verification" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/site-verification-2#post-1149785 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:31:29 +0000 timethief 1149785@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The only process that we can use for verifying free hosted WordPress.com blogs with search engines is found here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/ Will you please try using it again?

Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don't feel panicky about this please.

]]> susanthunt on "site verification" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/site-verification-2#post-1149404 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:55:18 +0000 susanthunt 1149404@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Any help appreciated ! I followed the instructions on WP and tried to verify site via google but received a message on google after clicky verify to say: We weren't able to verify your site.

Google page highlighted the text to copy - I pasted it in on WP tools as per the tutorial so not sure what the problem is.
I have pasted below the info I copied and I clicked Save Changes.

<meta name="google-site-verification" content="jdTcNCyMtLmFWodn-0hrSuprfkdm03eUOWE_7Y4FBYU" />

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