Does anyone know how to get the verification code in GA for an existing site? I am uploading a new Wordpress site and it is requesting the verification meta tag. I cannot find how to do this in the NEW GA - didn't have a problem with it in the old one. Also, Google Help still gives instructions for the old GA.
thanks,
Philip
Login Webmaster and add site then given the url and then select the alternative option then click meta tag option copy the meta tag and past on home page of your site then upload the site. click ok then massage come on screen your site is verify
You are confusing the Webmaster Tool account "verification tag" with the GA/Urchin "Account code."Originally Posted by newoptimizer
If you refer to the former, see Webmaster Tools: Site verification for the four different ways in which WMT verification can been accomplished. Note that if you are using the asynchronous version of GA, its tracking snippet will do double duty by also providing for WMT verification.
If it is the later that you refer to, and by "new GA" you mean the asynchronous version, see Analytics Help: Set up the tracking code (asynchronous).
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Learn to read carefully before posting. The Webmaster Tools verification tag has nothing to do with Google Analytics.
Last edited by deepsand; 05-18-2012 at 06:10 AM.
I guess my head wasn't together when I wrote this. I did say GA and that is incorrect. I meant GWT - Google Webmaster Tools, of course. I have been to the page that you show, several times before I made the post. They do explain how to get the GWT verification code in many different forms. I am completely familiar with the process. But it doesn't seem to work with the NEW GWT. I am unable to get a verification meta tag for an existing site in GWT. The site doesn't currently use the meta tag, so I can't copy from the existing code. I used a file or something else when I last verified it.
I've also had difficulty getting the analytic code, on other sites, to work for Webmaster tools. It would work a while, then it would say it isn't verified. I would eventually just verify in webmaster tools too...
thanks,
I'm a bit confused as to the relationship between the sit that you are trying to have verified and any existing site. Correcting for the WMT/GA confusion, you say:
Is the WP content at a new DN or at one previously verified for WMT?Does anyone know how to get the verification code in [WMT] for an existing site? I am uploading a new Wordpress site ...
In re. the WMT Verification Code for an existing DN, if an identifying file was used, it would have had a file name of the form google1cde7f3477f27a62.html, with the content being the same as the file name absent the extension, in this case simply "google1cde7f3477f27a62". Look in the Index of the DN in question for such a file.
However, if the DN that you are trying to now validate with WMT is a different DN, I would not expect that using the verification code of another DN would work; but, I'd not be surprised to find that it did, either, given how FUBAR both WMT and GA now are.
I have an existing non Wordpress site that is verified in Webmaster Tools. I am about to upload a new Wordpress site to replace that site and I'd like to get the verification meta tag that Wordpress is requesting in the Yoast seo plugin. It was rather easy to get that in the old Webmaster Tools, but I cannot figure out how to get it in the new one.
I just looked in the main directory of the existing non WP site and found the google verification code in the page form as you mention, i.e., google1cde7f3477f27a62.html. I suppose I could just add that to the main directory again and solve everything. I thought it might be simple to just find the meta tag in GWT so I could add it into the SEO plugin,
thanks and sorry for the confusion,
Philip
Given that it's the same DN, that should do the trick.
If Yoast insists on using the meta tag, you can use the character string from your existing verification code file.
not sure how to turn the code into the correct meta tag, though I know I have at least one site where I did use the meta tag. But hopefully I will be able to upload the page and that will take care of it -
thanks
Philip
A bit of reading indicates that WMT apparently periodically attempts to re-verify a site; and, that so long as the verification file method is used, and the file remains in the site's root, all is well. However, if that file is removed, one must begin anew. Whether simply returning that file to the root will work, or if a new file with a new code is required, is not clear.
Additionally, sometime in 2010 a new verification meta tag scheme was introduced, so that, once re-verification failed, for whatever reason, the old meta tag would no longer work. This means that you can no longer construct a new working meta tag from the code in the verification file itself.
Suggest that you first try simply uploading the verification file that you found had been used to the root, and then go to WMT. If logging in there does not trigger an automatic verification check, then, as I recall, you should see a "Verify this site" button.
well yes, that would work. If doesn't verify, it would just show the 'need to verify button.'
I remember in 2010 a client removed their meta tag. It was reinstalled and began working again. But I guess they changed the rules now..
thanks,
Philip
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