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| Thread ID: 149055 | 2020-06-05 10:53:00 | Website verification: Google's search-console? | Billy (6701) | Press F1 |
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| 1469328 | 2020-06-05 10:53:00 | I wanted to to ensure Google bots crawled my wife's new website. So I surfed to search.google.com I used "URL prefix" option I downloaded the html file - this just had one line in. The instructions say "upload to her google sites webpage. (See attachment) Does that mean... 1) Type the the contents of the downloaded html file on the bottom of the home page? 2) Copy the html file to the directory? (And if this, how do I upload a webpage when I am using google-sites?Obviously can't use FileZilla!) I'm obviously missing something simple here! Maybe Google's Search-console isn't what I need? Thanks in advance. W10 FF & Chrome Web page created in google-sites |
Billy (6701) | ||
| 1469329 | 2020-06-05 11:42:00 | You don't need google console to be in google search results, its more a tool for improving your site. Content will always be key for improved listings however. I believe this html is for verification? So whatever prefix you used, place that file there so google can verify you own the site. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1469330 | 2020-06-06 09:19:00 | You don't need google console to be in google search results, its more a tool for improving your site. Content will always be key for improved listings however. I believe this html is for verification? So whatever prefix you used, place that file there so google can verify you own the site. My wife's site hasn't been crawled by Google yet so it doesn't appear in searches --- that's the problem. To force a visit by Google's bots, it seems you now have to use the Search-console. AS AN ASIDE: On Google-sites, I have tried clicking Insert, then embedded and putting the verification Url there by it didn't seem to like it! I have also tried to unpublish for 10 minutes then republish as per (sites.google.com) |
Billy (6701) | ||
| 1469331 | 2020-06-07 03:35:00 | I do not know where google expects you to put it but if you gave the url prefix: www.example.com/mysite then I would assume that is where they want it to show. e.g. www.example.com/mysite/verify.html so that google will go to that location to make sure it exists. If that is the correct location and still google has issues finding it, then going by that your wife's site has not been crawled at all leads me to believe that you're actually blocking bots from crawling the site or the host blocks them. You would have to investigate more into this but it sounds like this is the case rather than google search console. So google's bot sounds like it's being prevented. |
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