Google Verify Plugin
Small Plugin to make Google Webmaster Tools site verification a bit easier. Works with the Meta Tag method and no template adjustements are needed. This is ideal for website with multiple tempaltes or demo sites, no templates adjustments needed when you add a new template this plugin will make sure you stay verified.
Instructions
- Go to google webmaster.
- Add your site, if not already done so.
- Select verify with metatag.
- Copy the content to your clipboard (ctrl-c)
<meta name="verify-v1" content="YOUR CONTENT IS BETWEEN THESE QUOTES" />
- Go to plugin manager and select google verify plugin.
- Paste you key into the parameter field called content.
- Adjust field name to match the green part shown in the example above.
- Make sure access level is set to public.
- Enable the plugin and save.
- Push the verify button in google webmaster site.
If google says it can’t verify, make sure you clean/purge/disable the cache of Joomla! as it might still be serving the old page.
Resources
- Joomla! Extension Page – Rating & Review
- forum – Support Forum
- download – Direct Download
Releases
- Release 1.1 fixed a missing import.
- Release 1.2 Added new “google-site-verification” option.
Screenshots
Parameter examples for plg_googleverify
Hey very good blog!
Hi Michael
Are you there?
Best regards
Bent
I tried this twice but failed to verify on google but i have seen the meta google verification on my homepage page source. due to afraid of being penalize on many i attempt i ended up on uploading on my site.through ftp
Plugin works just fine, THX!
For the people that didn’t get the plugin to work, here’s some additional advice:
ONLY if the Google code says “verify-v1″, set the plugin to “verify-v1″, otherwise leave it set to “google-site-verification”!
ONLY copy the actual CODE, WITHOUT the quotation marks or any html coding, into the content field.
Doing so made the plugin work instantly for me…
Same problem: everything’s fine execpt for the ” that become a ‘. Working on a mac. Could you help me?
Thans, Tom
Hi Michael
This sounds great but before i start I would like to know if the latest comments are correct?
Has Google change something, so the plug in doesn’t work anymore?
Best regards
Bent
I am sorry but I don’t get how this works
if this helps… i just looked at the source code for my home page, and yes, something has changed the Google ” to a single ‘ which is not being accepted.
Having same problem. Being rejected by google. somehow the double quote gets changed to a single quote that Google does not like. Any body have any suggestions?
@Michiel Bijland
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. However, I must be stupid because I just can’t get this to work. So if you please (or some other nice person)…
This is what my meta tag at Google looks like:
If I enter that in the plugin field, chaning “google-site-verification” to “verify-v1”, the outcome Google says is:
Checking the source code on the index page, it is the same. I’ve tried several variations like using “, taking them away, google-verification, verify-1 etc.
Seems as the quotes are wrong. Any idea on how to fix that? Manually of course, but with this plugin.
/Sintra
Hi Sintra ,
I’ll adjust the image later tonight, color was visible on my home screen but checked at work and it was indeed almost invisible. green part is “verify-v1″.
kind regards,
Michiel
Hi dave,
You have to leave it as is, else google will ask you to verify again everytime you visit webmaster tools.
Hi and what to do after site is verified ? Should I uninstall your google verify plugin or leave it enabled ?
Hi,
I have colour screen, but I can’t see this: “Adjust field name to match the green part shown in the example above.”
As I can’t get this to work I wonder if it is important. Probably…:)
I have chosen google-site-verification and pasted the whole string. Publicly available and everything else is in place as I understand.
Thanks!
Thanks for the plugin. It works perfect.
Well, I don’t know anything about godaddy hosting but I think you should first get a joomla site running on that domain and then publish my plugin. The plugin won’t verify a godaddy parking page.
kind regards,
Michiel
@Michiel Bijland
so how could I verified my site? did I could change the setting for that?
Thanks,
Julianus
That might be caused by the godaddy parking webpage being served on that domain.
kind regards,
Michiel
Hi, I’ve followed the instruction and copy the content code_but when I click verify the google result “We weren’t able to verify your site: http://www.mocamoci.com/” is there I miss some part here?
how do you mean”make sure you clean/purge/disable the cache of Joomla!”, I can’t find it
Thanks,
Julianus
Hi,
This means your server had a error and knows it did, most likely you can just resubmit your verify request and it will go through. I checked your website and it had the correct code in place.
Kind regards,
Michiel
I got the following error “We’ve detected that your site’s home page returns a status of 500 in the header.” when I go back to verify. Anyone know what is going on?
@Andrew Hoffman
Hi,
Did you paste only this part:
CGp3TYlypYhGLY047CfhbCo5BFnK-pDBNMNxDl1E0fA
or the complete line that google gives you? I will run test again if I can reproduce you error.
Kind regards,
Michiel
I installed the new plugin, and when i put the code in the content parameter, apply/save the click the verify button on google i get the error
“Your verification meta tag should be CGp3TYlypYhGLY047CfhbCo5BFnK-pDBNMNxDl1E0fA. The meta tag we found was <meta name=."
Looks like it isnt getting the entire code sting.
Hi Patricia,
Might be dumb question, but did you activate the plugin, joomla! installs plugins deactivated by default.
Also make sure you downloaded the latest version(1.2), you can verify this by going to administrator->Extensions->install/uninstall->plugins, there is a list of all your plugins find googleverify and check your version.
ps: looked at your site it is there do you have to use “verify-v1″ or “google-site-verification”
I copied the Google code, pasted the whole thing in the parameters field. That didn’t work. I pasted just the key code. That didn’t work. What am I doing wrong? According to your documentation, there might be some other field I need to update, but I didn’t see where to do that? I feel kind of dumb, since this seems to be very easy, but Google can’t verify for some reason. Any help would be appreciated.