Verifying Website in Google Webmaster tools :: Archived

CatchImran

I tried verifying my website using the html file but it refuses to even after the file can be seen so I decided to use the Meta Tag approach. But the problem is I don't know where to add the Meta Tag. Can anybody please tell me where to do so?

mdthomann

In your /themes/yoursitesdefaulttheme/template/header.html just below <head>

darkgrue

mdthomann wrote:

In your /themes/yoursitesdefaulttheme/template/header.html just below <head>

This will lead to less consistent results (if you change the default theme, you lose the verification) than editing the includes/meta.php file, which has all the other meta tags you'll probably want to edit as well.

You'd add:

Code::

$METATAGS['verify-v1'] = 'somerandomstringofcharacters';

right above/below the keywords line (Line 18, I believe). If you edit meta.php, save a copy of it separately - I update from the CVS and I always forget and overwrite the damn thing... Mad

CatchImran

Here is th error I am getting:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/.mosby/imranali/www.radopod.com/includes/meta.php on line 18

Any suggestions for the same?

CatchImran

I even tried the method suggested by mdthomann, but in vain again. Please help!

sarah · Debugger Offline Joined: Mar 25, 2005 Posts: 2130

There's no '<' in the line of code that darkgrue posted.

CatchImran

Here it is again '< in /home/.mosby/imranali/www.radopod.com/includes/meta.php on line 18'. Sorry for the mistake.

Phoenix

You have corrupted one of your files when you made a change - re-load an original file and modify it again.

CatchImran

Sorry for the confusion people:

Here is the tag

<meta name="verify-v1" content="2aK4zJYWblWbopvwa/eW6USxWKZurq5sKHjEJ08IPls=" />

that I got from Google. Can somebody put it on the file and mail it over to me @ imran @ radopod.com please!

Phoenix

darkgrue already showed you what and where, in a post above,

dragonflycms.org/Forum...tml#125282

greenday2k

i had the same problem, first i've tried the blank html file but google sitemaps had problems finding that file. ¬¬

Then Added this code in header.php (Line 72, $Revision: 9.28 $)

Code::

$header .='<meta name="verify-v1" content="VxoK+ff+/X2kC55mY8CF7Xt0ZQ6MFUk8AhvYp55GnlU=" />'."\n";

But

Google Site maps wrote:

Verification status: NOT VERIFIED
Last attempt Apr 5, 2007: We've detected that your verification file returns a status of 403 (Forbidden) in the header.

I've searched in my log file and found this:

Quote::

Host: 72.14.195.146
Http Code: 403 Date: Apr 05 03:35:11
Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 586
Referer: - Agent: Google-Sitemaps/1.0

But google bot is visiting my site (eating bandwidth =P)
Also running the Robots.txt analysis from google its said

Quote::

Crawl-delay: 20 Rule ignored by Googlebot

I've noticed that in Security->Bots Google-Sitemaps/1.0 is not listed. I've turned off the Bots option and tried again to verify. But again got: Error 403 on header...
[b]Then turned off Unknown user agents And my site was verified successfully using the meta option!/b]

hope this help. But... how i can add Bots/UserAgents to the Security system? is it safe to add a new row in the security table? because id like to turn On the Unknown user agents protection.

greenday2k

Code::

INSERT INTO `nuke_security_agents` ( `agent_name` , `agent_fullname` , `agent_hostname` , `agent_url` , `agent_ban` , `agent_desc` )
VALUES (
'Google-Sitemaps', 'Google-Sitemaps', NULL , NULL , '0', NULL
);

it will be right?

Phoenix

well, I simply added mine to my theme header.html and never had any issues

PHP:

<head>
{S_HEADER_TAGS}
<meta name="verify-v1" content="myverificationcode" />

This was the first solution mentioned at the start of the topic, but darkgrue's makes a lot of sense.

CatchImran

People I have lost my site completely. I am not being able to access the admin.php as well. Please help me. I have the SQL file but having huge problems. What should I do? Please help!

CatchImran

Here is the error list:

SQL Queries:

includes/cmsinit.inc
0.0078 - LINE 132: SELECT * FROM cms_config_custom
includes/classes/cpg_member.php
0.0044 - LINE 88: SELECT g.group_id, g.group_name, g.group_single_user FROM cms_bbgroups AS g INNER JOIN cms_bbuser_group AS ug ON (ug.group_id=g.group_id AND ug.user_id=2 AND ug.user_pending=0)
includes/functions/display.php
0.003 - LINE 119: SELECT bid, bposition, bkey, title, content, url, blockfile, view, refresh, time FROM cms_blocks WHERE active='1' AND (blanguage='english' OR blanguage='') ORDER BY weight ASC
blocks/block-CPG_Main_Menu.php
0.0014 - LINE 51: SELECT m.title as link, m.custom_title as title, m.view, m.active, m.inmenu, m.cat_id, c.name, c.image, c.pos AS catpos, c.link AS catlnk, c.link_type AS cattype FROM cms_modules AS m LEFT JOIN cms_modules_cat c ON (c.cid = m.cat_id) ORDER BY m.pos
0.0011 - LINE 61: SELECT l.title, l.link, l.link_type, l.view, l.active, l.cat_id, c.name, c.image, c.pos AS catpos, c.link AS catlnk, c.link_type AS cattype FROM cms_modules_links AS l LEFT JOIN cms_modules_cat c ON (c.cid = l.cat_id) ORDER BY l.pos
blocks/block-Who_is_where.php
0.0037 - LINE 21: SELECT s.uname, s.module, s.url, u.user_allow_viewonline FROM cms_session AS s LEFT JOIN cms_users AS u ON u.username=s.uname WHERE guest=0 OR guest=2 ORDER BY s.uname
0.016 - LINE 44: SELECT host_addr, uname, module, url, guest FROM cms_session WHERE guest=1 OR guest=3 ORDER BY guest, host_addr
blocks/block-User_Menu.php
0.0009 - LINE 51: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_users WHERE user_regdate>='1175801400'
0.0009 - LINE 52: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_users WHERE user_regdate<'1175801400' AND user_regdate>='1175715000'
0.001 - LINE 53: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_users WHERE user_id > 1 AND user_level >= 0
0.001 - LINE 66: SELECT COUNT(privmsgs_to_userid) FROM cms_bbprivmsgs WHERE privmsgs_to_userid='2' AND (privmsgs_type='1' OR privmsgs_type='5')
0.001 - LINE 68: SELECT COUNT(privmsgs_to_userid) FROM cms_bbprivmsgs WHERE privmsgs_to_userid='2' AND privmsgs_type='0'
0.0013 - LINE 57: SELECT username FROM cms_users WHERE user_active = 1 AND user_level > 0 ORDER BY user_id DESC LIMIT 1
0.0009 - LINE 26: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_session WHERE guest=3 ORDER BY uname
0.0011 - LINE 27: SELECT uname, guest FROM cms_session WHERE guest=0 OR guest=2 ORDER BY uname
0.0013 - LINE 28: SELECT uname FROM cms_session WHERE guest=1 ORDER BY uname
0.0011 - LINE 36: SELECT user_id FROM cms_users WHERE username='Imran'
0.001 - LINE 144: SELECT SUM(count) FROM cms_counter WHERE type='os'
0.003 - LINE 145: SELECT SUM(hits) as hits FROM cms_stats_hour WHERE year='2007' AND month='4' AND date='5'
modules/Downloads/admin/adwait.inc
0.0012 - LINE 19: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_downloads_broken
0.0008 - LINE 20: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_downloads_downloads WHERE active=2
0.0096 - LINE 25: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_downloads_mirrors WHERE active=0
modules/News/admin/adwait.inc
0.0032 - LINE 19: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_queue
modules/Web_Links/admin/adwait.inc
0.0044 - LINE 20: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_links_newlink
0.0018 - LINE 21: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_links_modrequest WHERE brokenlink='1'
0.0045 - LINE 22: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_links_modrequest WHERE brokenlink='0'
modules/coppermine/admin/adwait.inc
0.0024 - LINE 19: SELECT prefix FROM cms_cpg_installs WHERE dirname = 'coppermine'
0.0009 - LINE 20: SELECT dirname FROM cms_cpg_installs WHERE cpg_id=1
0.0014 - LINE 22: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cms_cpg_pictures WHERE approved=0

includes/cmsinit.inc
CMS Notice line 145: sendmail_from: imran @ radopod.com

Please help!!!