Verify your InstantPro site with Google Webmaster Tools

Verify your website with Google's Webmaster Tools

Google's Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about how Google views your website and provides many methods of enhancing Google's interpretation of your site in general, helping it to perform as best it can. Google revised their verification system in late 2009, this guide has been updated to provide accurate information.

When you create a Google Webmaster Tools account (Google Account), click "Add a site..." and fill in your domain name in the box that appears.

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You will then need to verify that you own the website, to do this Google provides you with some HTML you must add to your InstantPro site.

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Leave the above window open where it is, and log into your InstantPro website builder in another window or tab. Once logged in and looking at your site overview click the following highlighted button.

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Once on the Webmaster Tools page click Manage Meta Tags, and on the following page select Custom Meta Tags (advanced).

Now go back to the other window and copy the HTML code Google has provided to you. Once you have copied that paste it into the following section:

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Click Add to add the tag into your custom meta tags, you will now need to assign it to your homepage since this is where Google checks for the tag.

Adding the meta tag to your homepage is pretty easy, scroll down just below the for for adding a meta tag and there should be at least one meta tag listed on the left as google-site-verification, select your homepage on the right hand side then click save as shown below.

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Once this has been done, once again go back to the Google page that provided you with the HTML code and click the verify button at the bottom. You should then, if successful, be directed to your Webmaster Tools dashboard where you can start playing around with all the handy features provided by Google for Webmasters!

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Disclaimer: Freeola is in no way affiliated with Google or their 'Webmaster Tools' service. This tutorial simply offers advice on using their service with an InstantPro site, Google's procedures are subject to change at any time.