Verifying website: Meta tags and HTML on .mac/iweb
Dear All,
Thank you for all the information posted here – I have never done anything with websites before, and looking at all the posts gave me the confidence and know-how to put up a website for my mom’s business. I don’t really understand what I have done, but its working great!
There is one question that has come up, however, to which I have not been able to find an answer. That is, how do I verify the website with Google?
Here is what has happened:
- created a website on iweb (’08) and published to .mac account
- rented two url’s on godaddy.com – changed the cname on the primary domain name to .mac, and forwarded the second domain name to the primary domain name
- Through Google business (Google Webmaster Tools) listed the URLs – now it’s asking me to verify my websites (i.e. that I own them)
From what I can gather, I don’t need to verify the sites to list the URLs or to submit a sitemap, but doing so seems to make available several tools – most important being the statistics of how the site is being used/found. It does not seem that this information is available via my .mac account.
In order to verify the site I need to upload an HTML file (what does this mean? How do I do it on iweb/.mac) or a meta tag (again, what is this? and how is it done on iweb/.mac?). If this cannot be done with iweb/.mac, is there any other similar alternative?
A last, and much more simple question – what is the sitemap for the secondary domain name – it technically does not have a site?
Again, thank you for all the help and expertise that everyone shares. As for what I can contribute – if you are new to this, GO FOR IT! It was worked well, is safe, and not as scary as it first looks!
Best,
Carlos
Thank you for all the information posted here – I have never done anything with websites before, and looking at all the posts gave me the confidence and know-how to put up a website for my mom’s business. I don’t really understand what I have done, but its working great!
There is one question that has come up, however, to which I have not been able to find an answer. That is, how do I verify the website with Google?
Here is what has happened:
- created a website on iweb (’08) and published to .mac account
- rented two url’s on godaddy.com – changed the cname on the primary domain name to .mac, and forwarded the second domain name to the primary domain name
- Through Google business (Google Webmaster Tools) listed the URLs – now it’s asking me to verify my websites (i.e. that I own them)
From what I can gather, I don’t need to verify the sites to list the URLs or to submit a sitemap, but doing so seems to make available several tools – most important being the statistics of how the site is being used/found. It does not seem that this information is available via my .mac account.
In order to verify the site I need to upload an HTML file (what does this mean? How do I do it on iweb/.mac) or a meta tag (again, what is this? and how is it done on iweb/.mac?). If this cannot be done with iweb/.mac, is there any other similar alternative?
A last, and much more simple question – what is the sitemap for the secondary domain name – it technically does not have a site?
Again, thank you for all the help and expertise that everyone shares. As for what I can contribute – if you are new to this, GO FOR IT! It was worked well, is safe, and not as scary as it first looks!
Best,
Carlos
Powerbook Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.1)
