Google Site Verification

September 12, 2005

I just noticed today that you can verify that you own a web site from within the google sitemaps website. The process is simple - Google will tell you to create a file on your site (something like /GOOGLEea6f95a80579477e.html), then they check to see if its there. If Google finds the file, your site is verified.

Why Verify?

When your site is verified google will show allow you to see any errors they encounter when crawling your site.

We will show you URLs that were either listed in your Sitemap or that we found through our regular crawl process that we were unable to crawl and we will provide information about why we couldn't crawl them. -Google

This is a great feature, but I am only experimenting with sitemaps right now. I am a bit cautious because I have heard about loss of traffic if you don't keep them up to date. Unfortunately you must submit a sitemap before you can get site statistics from Google.

Have you implemented sitemaps? Have you seen a positive or negative impact on traffic? Or no change at all?

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On 09/12/2006 at 2:32:17 PM EDT jc wrote:

not sure too be honest, it seems to take forever for the googlebot to crawl and when it does it comes it with some bizarre way to rank you.

On 10/26/2007 at 5:22:58 AM EDT fg wrote:

not sure too be honest, it seems to take forever for the googlebot to crawl and when it does it comes it with some bizarre way to rank you

On 10/19/2010 at 2:22:11 AM EDT asutosh jena wrote:

I could not able to search my domain in google search,Kindly make it soon and give me suggestion for promoting my website.

On 10/30/2010 at 12:12:04 AM EDT Dave wrote:

We have just launched a directory www.britishgreenproducts.co.uk and added this verification code to the website. For sure it seems to help with regards to the bots going through the entire website, which obviously has helped on the organic searching. I would recommend you try it out.

On 11/06/2010 at 10:06:12 AM EDT dinesh.atav39@gmail.com wrote:

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On 02/19/2011 at 2:08:45 PM EST indmanpower wrote: