- Need to get your Shopify website verified
in Google Merchant Center?
I'm gonna show you exactly how to do it in this video.
Let's go.
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Hey guys, in this video, I'm gonna show you
how to get your Google Merchant Center account verified
with your website for your Shopify store.
Okay, let's get into it.
So, I'm in the Google Merchant Center dashboard right now.
Gonna go up to settings over here
and then go to Business information.
It's gonna go to this page here.
You should add in that, those details anyway
if you haven't already.
But I'm gonna go to website.
Here's when we put in the URL.
So make sure you include the https://www.
This is my website, key-surfers.com
Save.
Make sure you get this right
and make sure if you're using www,
you actually use that, okay.
You can try using Google Analytics and verify it.
That's a really easy, good way to do it
but sometimes that doesn't work with Shopify.
It's just how Shopify works.
But you can click that
as long as the email in your Merchant Center account
is the same as in your Analytics account,
and you have installed Analytics properly
on your Shopify site.
It can work, but sometimes it doesn't.
So I prefer this way, 'cause it's super, super easy.
So it may seem a bit hard 'cause you're doing code
but I'm gonna walk you through it exactly.
So don't stress.
So, firstly go to over to here that says,
"I have access to my server".
And then here you can select these two options
but we're definitely gonna choose this one.
"Add an HTML tag to my homepage".
What this means is that
we're gonna go to our Shopify store
and add a little bit of code which is super easy to add
so that Google can check it and go,
oh yeah, Sam or whoever you are
actually knows, that actually owns this store.
Okay, so it says to copy.
"To you use this method,
you'll need to add this meta tag to your site's homepage."
So let's copy the meta tag,
and let's go over to our Shopify dashboard here.
So I'm in my Shopify dashboard here for my website.
I'm gonna go to Online Store.
It's gonna open up the themes panel here.
So this is just the default theme that's installed
but we're gonna edit this anyway.
Go to edit code.
And maybe this seems to be scary for you
if you haven't done much HTML work or code work at all.
But I'm gonna make it really easy
so make sure you go over to theme liquid.
So this should say theme.liquid here.
And this is the main template for your Shopify theme.
And so we're gonna put it after the head.
What I want you to do,
is I want you to press,
I want you to search, so Command + F.
It's gonna pull up this.
And type in this.
It's gonna be a little square,
like the arrow brackets slash head.
That's gonna find the end of this section here.
We wanna put it at the end of this section
and you'll know it's the end because it has this /head.
There's only one of those in the file
in the, in the sheet here.
And then after that, you'll see this, it'll say body.
That's where the actual content starts.
Don't worry about that too much.
What we wanna do is just before the head,
we wanna paste in that code that we got
from Google Merchant Center.
So it's this code here, you've copied that.
And then you're gonna just gonna put it right here.
Super easy.
We're then gonna click save.
It's gonna save.
And sometimes it takes about 5 to 10 minutes
to actually show up on your website.
Sometimes this happens.
So what we can do now
is we're gonna go back and click verify.
But what I like to do sometimes is also just double-check
to make sure it's on the store.
So you can click the little eye symbol.
It's gonna open up your own Shopify store.
So here's my store.
Terrible store, I haven't done anything to it yet.
But if I go here and go View Page Source,
I'm in Google Chrome.
It works in Firefox as well.
And it'll show the code.
Same thing, Control + F.
And I'm gonna search for head.
Oh, there it is.
And there's that bit of code that I added.
So that's now live on my website.
So now it just means that Google needs to make sure
that they've crawled that site and it shows it there.
So let's verify and see if this works.
Give it a second.
Boom, we're now verified.
Woohoo, yeah, verified!
Now we need to claim our website URL,
'cause that mean that only we can use that.
Boom!
We have now claimed and verified our URL and our website
and we're all good.
So now we can start setting up the rest of our account.
I hope that helped you get verified
in Google Merchant Center.
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