With Google’s dominance in the search engine world, it looks submitting your site to Google is the only way to get quality search traffic. In order to submit your Weebly site to Google, you need to add a verification code offered by Google Search Console (earlier known as Google Webmaster Tools) and confirm that you are the owner of that site. Verification is required to access various other free features including Sitemap submission.
Getting Verification Code
Since Google does not offer anonymous site submission you need to verify your ownership using one of the following methods:
- Login to your Google Search Console account and add your Weebly site.
- Google offers verification using HTML file, HTML tag, Google Tag Manager and Domain name provider.
- Choose “HTML tag” verification method where you will see a meta tag verification code along with the instruction to install.
- Copy the code – this is the code to be pasted in your Weebly site.
Verifying Your Weebly Site
- Login to your Weebly account, edit the site you have added to Google Search Console in the previous step.
- Navigate to “Settings” menu and go to “SEO” section.
- Paste the verification code copied in the previous step in the Header Code box as shown in the below picture.
- Save your changes and publish your site.
- Go to Google Search Console account and click the verify button and your site will be verified successfully.
Adding Verification Code in Pages
Adding code under site’s settings will include the HTML meta tag in all your pages. You can view the code by looking into the source code in any web browser. This is the correct method to add Google Search Console verification code in your Weebly site. For any reason, if you do not want to insert the code at site level and want to do that only on few pages, then follow the below steps.
- Go to “Pages” tab in Weebly editor and select the page you want to add the verification code.
- Click on the “SEO Settings” option and paste your code inside the Header Code box as shown in the below picture.
- Publish your site to save your changes.
Points to Note
- HTML meta tag verification method does not require access to site’s root directory and hence easy to implement on your free Weebly site. You can also verify the site using domain name provider or Google Tag Manager account. However, you can’t use HTML file method as it needs the HTML file to be uploaded in site’s root which is not possible with Weebly.
- Adding site to Google Search Console does not guarantee any improved ranking in the search results. This is only used for monitoring your site’s performance in Google Search.
- After verifying site, you can submit Sitemap so that Google’s crawler can easily find your pages.
