Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) are set of tools used by webmasters for the optimization of webpages. It can be defined as the primary mechanism of google to communicate with webmasters. On 20 May 2015, it is renamed as Google Search Console. It is a charge-free web service provided by google. It allows webmasters to check the indexing status, errors and to optimize the visibility of their websites.
Verification steps in GWT
- Create a blog in your blogger account.
- Copy the URL of blog post with .com extension. If it is in country specific extension, then remove it by adding .com with "/ncr". Then press enter key and copy the new URL.
- Login to Webmaster Tools or google search console.
- Paste the URL in the given box.
- Click on "Add a Property" button. Then it will be redirected to a page with different options. For blog, select the “HTML tag” verification method and copy the “Meta tag” data given in the text box. (Eg: <meta name="google-site-verification" content="….." /> .
- Now go back to Blogger Dashboard and click on the Theme and then Edit Html. This will allow you to edit the html of your blog template.
- Paste the copied meta tag data inside the head section of template's html code. Click on “Save Theme” button.
- Now go to Google Search Console and press “Verify” button.
- Now you will receive a verification message.
- After clicking the continue in the verification message, the page will be redirected to Blogger Dashboard.
- Now we can see the "Crawl" option on the left side of the screen. Click on it and select "Fetch as Google" option.
- If you need to fetch the entire blog, then leave the text box blank. Otherwise enter the URL of the page you want to be indexed.
- Now click the "Fetch" button.
- After indexing has finished, we can see a "Request Indexing" button on the screen.
- Click "Request Indexing" and verify that your not a robot. Now you can see two options. "Crawl Only This URL" ( To fetch/submit one specific page) and "Crawl This URL and its Direct Links" (To index the blog and its links).
- Select as per the need and click Go.
- Wait for the indexing to complete and successfully done.






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