how to add a site to Google Webmaster Tools
hello and welcome in this video session
I'm going to show you step-by-step tutorial
as to how you can add your website
to Google Webmaster Tool account let's say you have website that you want
add to Google Webmaster Tool simply
copy this URL log in to your Google Webmaster Tools account and if you don't have one you
surely need to create one to add your website
so I will presume that you already have that account
if not simply create it once you log into your Google Webmaster Tools account
you'll have this icon here saying
Add a Site let's press on that and
simply paste the URL of your website so
your website URL goes in there and once you do
let's just press Continue now
for your site and the details from it
to show in Google Webmaster Tool account to verify your website and
easiest way is to verify it by
uploading a dynamically generated HTML file
from Google Webmaster Tool
account while you're adding the site its gonna give you a
file which you can Press and download
let's save that file so you simply save your file what I will do is quickly take you
through all all all the alternative ways
to
add your website as well okay because there are other methods as well
HTML tag if you press this option
what you need to do is have this code
in in the within the head
element of your website so if you don't want to download the file and
upload it if you don't want to download the file and upload it if you don't want to download the
recommended method and upload it or if for whatever reason that you can not do that
you can then choose other ways to verify your website one being as
shown before is to add a Meta tag
within head element of
your HTML files now the
next step is domain name provider
it has many many options your hosting
domain name provider
maybe in these option list
if not you can still
you know play around choose the one not
related to yours because
oftentimes ninety percent of the times
procedures will be very very similar so simply browse around
to see if yours is not in here that is if yours is in here
let's say I have I host
my websites with Crazy Domains dot com hosting
provider and domain name provider so
you simply choose your domain name provider and then you have
different options as to
you can copy this particular line of text and
change TXT records
on your domain name provider's website
user interface so simply locate the domain
which will be the URL that you want to add and let's say
you press on that URL and then all you have to do
is update the TXT records
here let's say that press on records you have that option
and simply find
this here and when you do
TXT records what you have to do is place that
code tha Google Webmaster Tools has giving you
so that's that portion all verifying your website now
another one if you don't choose this option is
you need to change the CNAME records
it's something similar simply you know instead of
TXT record you change the CNAME record
to whatever Google is given you
okay so that's another option Google Analytics if you have
Google Analytics account you can actually use your tracking
code to verify website the website you're adding in
to Google Webmaster Tool account as well
Google Tag manager to be honest with you I've checked this out
I'm not 100 percent familiar with it because
I think all the other methods that you can learn
from the videos I made available for you teaches you much better way
gives you more control what you do with Google
whether it's Analytics or Webmaster Tool Account and
so on okay so then if you have Google Tag manager
and if you're very familiar with it then you can also verify your website
using Google Tag manager as well so it is probably looking for an ID
which have to log in to
your Tag manager account and take things from there
so easiest way is once again is downloading the file
we downloaded that file already
so let's open that up let's open the folder now
how you verify your website is you need to upload this
file that it's given you let's delete this
you need to upload this in to root folder of your
hosting account so you have
obviously a domain and URL and a website that's live
you log into your hosting account and
just locate your files
in your hosting account and all you have to do
is you simply need to upload it to your root folder okay
simply upload that file you download
into
into your root folder which will be
here file that Google
has dynamically generated for you
must be up in your hosting account in
the root folder of your URL
alternative methods one method
being let's say this code
I'm covering all the possible scenarios here by now you may think
you know what I've seen what I needed to
see so you can simply close this video tutorial if you
so please I'm gonna show you if you have a WordPress site
and if you can't the upload the file or if you
can't change all the other methods that we've
seen so far what you can do is
simply log into your WordPress
site and under the left hand side
you'll have appearance option
you simply go in to editor
once you're in there simply find your header file
Press on it once you do all you have to do is copy
line of text within
your head element so that's
end of our head element where is the
start of it that's the start of it you can place it anyway in
between head element once you do that
you simply update the file
go back into your Google Webmaster Tools
account all you do
is you verify the site you
just added now
Press verify that's it
that's all you need to do I covered all the possible scenarios that I know how
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how you can take full advantage of Google
webmaster tools account have to use it
for SEO purposes I thank you very much
this video tutorial session has been about how to
add a site to Google webmaster tools
thank you very much take care bye bye