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Mango Himself -> Google and HTML (7/29/2007 17:38:35)

hi guys

a customer just asked me this question

quote:

Search Engines like Google make you verify that you are the owner of the website by adding something into the HTML


Does anyone have any idea what she may be talking about? I figure she's been talking to someone who is feeding her some concepts she doesn;t grasp. I am guessing she is talking either about the certificate or the doctype. Does her question ring a bell?



womble -> RE: Google and HTML (7/29/2007 19:47:00)

[img]http://ecanus.net/smileys/duh.gif[/img] Duh! My brain is like swiss cheese!

I can't remember what it was for now, or whether it was an SE, but I do seem to remember having to add a file to the root of one of my domains to verify it was mine and I could access it.

Hmmmm...thinking abou it, I can't swear to it, but I've a feeling it might have been something to do with Google's (or one of the other SE's) "remove this URL from our index" tools - something along the lines of proving it's your domain so you can't just wily nilly remove all your competitors' URLs.

Something like that ring any bells?



Mango Himself -> RE: Google and HTML (7/29/2007 20:07:30)

dear womble

it rings a bell. The question that idiotic client is asking me!!! LOL

I have a feeling I am not going to work with her. It's a very inexpensive site that I was ready to create for her a few weeks ago but right now I am involved in much bigger projects. Also, when they start demanding a lot of idiotic stuff I know they are bound to be headaches.

Thanks for the support and for the title.

Yours respectfully

Prince Mango



ou812 -> RE: Google and HTML (7/29/2007 22:04:39)

Maybe either google analytics, which needs info placed inside of the HTML, or google statistics?

http://www.google-analytics.com
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/about.html



coreybryant -> RE: Google and HTML (7/30/2007 12:55:57)

I have a google file and a Yahoo file added in all my websites. Google is something like googlea2a30ce659e64b0b.html and Yahoo is y_key_6403fbeeb894dc16.html (and yahoo actually also wants you to put the some text in their y_key_6403fbeeb894dc16.html file)



DebSpecs -> RE: Google and HTML (7/31/2007 16:56:37)

Yes, I know exactly what she's talking about. It's on Google Webmaster Central. Go to this URL http://www.google.com/webmasters/ and then click webmaster tools. Google requires folks to verify their site before they can proceed to other important things, such as submitting sitemaps.

Quite contrary to being idiotic, this potential client sounds like she's on top of her business. Yes, people that are more up on things than you when it's supposed to be your arena can be scary, and this itself is often a reason to drop clients. I know because we've been dropped. I guess we spend too much time on these forums when we should be "minding our business".




markov -> RE: Google and HTML (8/3/2007 5:02:24)

It is the other way to verify the owner of site. I think google asks this only in case of webmaster tools mainly for site map and google adsense issues.



DebSpecs -> RE: Google and HTML (8/3/2007 12:12:26)

Also, Google wants to verify a blog before you can put code in it so it gets indexed on the natural SE listings.



markov -> RE: Google and HTML (8/18/2007 14:44:50)


quote:

ORIGINAL: DebSpecs

Also, Google wants to verify a blog before you can put code in it so it gets indexed on the natural SE listings.

How does Google asks that incase of blogs?



DebSpecs -> RE: Google and HTML (8/20/2007 11:41:19)

Here's a helpful link on how to submit your blog to the search engines:

http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-submit-site-to-google.html

First, you'll have to verify the blog on Google. Instructions to do that are included. If you have trouble, write back.

:)Falala




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