Verify Websites with All in One SEO Pack and Webmaster Tools

One of the popular pages on on SemperPlugins com is our Google Webmaster Tools Verification page. While our documentation provides level of detail sufficient for most webmasters to link and verify their WordPress sites to Google Webmaster Tools, it's time to review the process, as Google have added options since our original post..   We will discuss each method, from the method using All One SEO Pack's Google Verification field, to the addition of TXT Records your DNS zone file..   Using domain best illustrates how to verify WordPress website with different methods of verification offered by Google Search Console, including our All One SEO Pack & Google Search Console verification processes..   Once UA number is added, tick the box marked Use Universal Analytics and scroll to the bottom of General Settings page and click Update Options...   For the  HTML tag method, Google Search Console provides string of in the text field inside a tag. We will need the string of text between the quotations, and not with the quotation marks themselves.   Then scroll to the bottom of the page and click Update Options.We then toggle back to Google Search Console and click Verify button.   For the purposes of this tutorial, we assume there is domain name registered with domain name service provider and access to DNS manager to make the required changes to the zone file.   For this tutorial, we changed DNS providers from Sedo, where the domain was parked, to CloudFlare. It can take DNS servers around the globe between 24-48 hours to update new record or change to existing record.   Once downloaded, we can upload the file to our root SFTP, or using our hosting cPanel upload manager and then click Verify. If we do not have access to our root directory using any of these methods, we wo not be able to complete site verification.   While not managing media and email communications, Tony loves to DJ on his radio show, Asheville House Music Society on Ashevillefm org Asheville, NC...   Read more