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Add Google site ownership confirmation

Add Google site ownership confirmation

Site owners can add Google site ownership confirmation information to their site. 

Step 1: Verifying your site 

Note: if your site has already been verified, proceed to Step 2. 

  1. Navigate and sign into the Google Search Console. 

  2. Select the Property selector drop-down. 

  3. Select + Property. 

  4. In the Add site URL field, type in the exact address of your site, and select Continue

  5. Select Done

Step 2: Finding your Google key string 

  1. Navigate and sign into Google Search Console. 

  2. Select the Property selector drop-down and select your site. 

  3. Select HTML tag. 

  4. From the HTML tag, copy (Ctrl+C) the characters between the quotations. This is your key string. 

Step 3: Adding your Google key string into the WCMS 

  1. From the administration bar, select Workbench, and then My Dashboard. 

  2. Under Site management menu, select Google Analytics and site ownership

    Screenshot of site management
  3. Paste (Ctrl+V) the Google key string into the Google site ownership confirmation field. 

    Screenshot of google analytics
  4. Select Save configuration. 

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