Blogging Mints

How to add your Blogger blog to the Google Webmaster Tools

Written by Malin on August 26, 2007 – 5:10 pm -

In my SEO: WWW or not post I discussed how you should choose one of them, either with www or no www. Even if you have a Blogger/Blogspot blog you can choose the preferred version (step number two in my other post). This is a tutorial on how to add your Blogger blog to the Google Webmaster Tools and how you set your preferred version.

Part 1 - Register on Google Webmaster Tools

• Go to Google Webmaster Tools and register/log in.
• On the dashboard, enter your Blogger url in the empty Add site field and click on the “Add site” button.
  I will add my new test blog so I type in http://cactuustutorials.blogspot.com/ in the field.
• As the site will tell you, next step is to verify your blog. So click the “Verify your site” link.
• In the drop down list, choose “Add meta tag” as your verification method. Then the site will provide you with a unique code that you have to copy and paste later on.

Part 2 - Adding the code to Blogger

• Open a new window in your browser and log in to your Blogger account and click the template tab in your dashboard.
• Then click on “Edit HTML“. Then you will see a bunch of codes in a text box. This code may differ depending which template you have chosen.
• Find the <$BlogMetaData$> and replace it with the code you got from Google in your other window. If your theme doesn’t have that code, look for the </title> (the ending tag - can be found in the top of the box) and paste the code from Google after the </title>. Then click on save.

Part 3 - Verifying

• Go to the Google Webmaster Tools page again and click “Verify” below the meta tag. If you did it right you should get a message that you successfully verified your blog.

Part 4 - Choose www or no www

• Stay on the Google page and click the “Preferred domain” link in the sidebar.
• Now you can choose which version you would like and then click “Ok“. If you don’t know what to choose, test the pagerank both versions and pick the one with the highest pagerank. Then you’re done!

Piece of cake right! Don’t forget to explore the site to check out the other features!
If you have any problem, or if you don’t understand something, comment and I’ll try to help! :)

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