Verify WordPress Blog in Webmaster

Are you fumbling to verify your WordPress blog with Google webmaster tools (search console)? Then open your WordPress dashboard and get the below easiest way now!

Crawling and indexing is the primary focus of off-page SEO activities, but many new-comers in the blogging or SEO industry used to forget the same.

The above scenario shows when you haven’t verified your WordPress blog with Google webmaster tool. For the same, you need to prove that you own it by verifying it in search console.

So let’s start and have a bit of a deeper dive into this verification guide;

Earlier, a few days back, I wrote a fully described and cleanest guide for the Google webmaster tool known as search console.

To claim the ownership of your WordPress blog, you would have a 2-3 number of options, but I will guide you for the HTML tag method to explain it in the simplest way.

Step 1: Sign in to Google webmaster tool by visiting the following link https://www.google.com/webmasters/ and with your any Gmail ID. See below snapshot;

Step 2: Select the URL Prefix property type and enter your WordPress blog address and then click on continue. See the below snapshot;

Step 3: Choose the HTML tag option and click on the expand icon coming in it under other verification methods to verify your WordPress blog. That is the only allowed way in WordPress. See below;

Step 4: Go to WordPress dashboard to add the copied HTML meta tag verification code into the WordPress blog by following the below as described;

Click on Tools Under My Home ⇒ Marketing ⇒ Traffic ⇒ Paste Your Verification Meta Tag into Box Next to Google ⇒ Save Settings.

After performing the above steps, Go back to the Google search console and click on verify.

After clicking on verify in Google webmaster tool, you can add your XML sitemap into Search Console for the easy crawling and indexing for your WordPress blog.

Alternatively, you can use these URL ping sites for fast indexing.

If you know any further alternative SEO way of verifying the WordPress blog in the webmaster tool (Google search console), then don’t keep it with you.

Just share it here to help those SEO experts like me who all are dealing with it.

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