In this video,
I'm going to show you how to verify your domains in the Facebook business
manager. So with Apple's upcoming privacy changes as part of iOS 14,
or maybe they've already rolled out,
depending on when you've watched this video,
Facebook has said that it's really important that we go and verify all of our
domains inside business manager,
to make sure that we don't run into any issues there.
So this is something that is absolute must do.
If you're running ads on Facebook at this point,
and I'm going to show you how to do it,
even if you aren't comfortable with tech and modifying code and all that kind of
stuff, it's really simple to do. So let's jump in and do it. But before we do,
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So the first thing that we need to do is head on over to Facebook business
manager. So to get to business manager,
you simply go to business.facebook.com and you should see a screen like this.
If you don't have a business manager account yet,
then you will need to go to business.facebook.com and sign up for a free
Facebook business manager account.
I've got a video on setting up business manager that I'll link to now.
So you can click that and set it up and then come back to this video and verify
your domains. Okay? So once you're inside the business manager,
all you want to do is click on business settings down in the bottom left corner.
All right. So once you are on the business settings screen,
then all you need to do is click brand safety and click on domains.
All right? So once you click on domains, you will see something like this.
And it says that I don't have any domains yet. So I'm going to click add,
and we just want to type in the name of the domain that you want to verify.
So don't put the HTTP or the www.
So I'm just going to put Andrew hubbard.co and click add domain.
There we go. Boom. So you can see here, it's on the left.
Andrew hopper.com and it says verification pending. Now,
if you already had some domains listed and you came here to add the new domain,
you just click add right here. Okay. So once you've got the domain here,
you need to verify it.
Now there are three different options to verify your domain.
Two of them we don't really care about at this point,
they are DNS verification in HTML file upload.
Those are a bit more technical and a bit more complex. Um,
and so unless you're comfortable with doing DNS verification or uploading HTML
Farsi website, you can ignore those.
And we're just going to click on meta tag verification. This one's quick,
it's really easy to do. And it gets the job done,
which is the most important thing.
So simple steps to verify your domain using meta-tags
verification. You simply grab this code here. So it says,
add this meta-tags to the head section.
And if we click on the bold text, it will copy it to the clipboard for us.
So we just copy that.
The next step is to go over to your WordPress website and we're going to
install a plugin. Now, if you're not on WordPress,
if you're on something like Squarespace or a different hosting platform,
simply go to their help,
documentation and search for how to add code to the head
of your website. So how to add code to head.
All of those builders will allow you to add code to the head of your website.
You just need to find out how they do it and paste this code in there.
But for WordPress,
we're going to go here and we're going to go to plugins and click, add new.
We're going to install a new plugin.
We're going to search plugins and type insert TETA,
click enter.
Now the plugin that I recommend and that I use is called insert headers and
footers. It's free. It's made by reliable company, WP beginner,
and it's updated regularly. So that's about as much as we can ask for.
So click install. Now, once the plugin is installed,
simply click the blue activate button to activate the plugin.
And then once the plugin is activated,
all we need to do is paste in our head code. So to do that,
go to settings and then click on insert headers and footers.
And then you can see here. It says scripts in header,
and we just paste in our meta tag
scrubs all down to the bottom click save. Once that is saved,
we're going to go to the website and just check that that is working.
So I'm going to click on here and go view site. Now, once you're on the website,
if you right click or, uh,
the equivalent on a Mac click view page source,
now we're going to press command F or control F if you're on windows to search
the page and I'm going to, again,
paste in my meta-tags and see if it's on the page and you can see here
there is right there. So it says Facebook domain verification and content,
and that code matches what's back here in the business manager.
So now I know that the code is actually on my page. That's good news.
If you have any caching plugins on your website,
just go and click to clear the cache. So I've got WP rocket,
and I'm going to click here and go clear cache. I don't know why I said Keisha.
Then I think I was trying to sound more like the American term.
I don't know we say cash. There's no right answer.
Anyway. So I've just cleared the cash. Uh,
now if I hold shift and click refresh on my page,
that brings in a new version of the page without using the cash as well.
So it's important. Just hold shift,
click on refresh and make sure you use the newest version of the page.
Now, what we need to do is go back to business settings.
And the final step here is just to verify the domain.
So make sure you're still on the meta-tags verification tab and click the green
verify button. You can see now it's given me a green tick and it says,
Andrew hubbard.co is verified. That's it all done? My domain is verified.
I don't need to do anything else. Now,
if you got a message that said that it failed,
don't all you need to do is wait an hour or two, maybe a little bit longer.
Come back, go to the meta-tags verification tab again,
make sure you're not on one of these other tabs and click verify.
Sometimes it takes a few hours for Facebook to pick it up and recognize the
meta-tags on your website. So just give it some time, come back,
click verify it, and you should be all good. So that's it.
You've now verified your domain inside the Facebook business manager.
If you have multiple domains,
it is really important that you go and verify all of them.
So just come back in here, click on, add again,
add the next domain that you want to verify and to go ahead and follow that same
process for each of your domains. All right. If you enjoyed this video again,
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