What is site verification in SEO?

Site verification is another step in onsite optimization of SEO (search engine optimization). As from name, it is the process where you have to verify your site.

What kind of verification it is?

In site verification you have to verify your site for further errors and bugs on you site.

This is also the verification of your site by search engines that you are the owner of this site. This verification of your site from different search engines gives you (webmaster or owner) the detailed information of over all functionality of your website.

Where to verify the site?

You have to verify your site from the very basic search engines as we are focusing these three search engine’s for crawling.

• Google
• Yahoo
• Bing

Mostly these search engines will verify your site with in 24 hours if you have fulfill all the requirements correctly. Once you have done your site verification then you will easily optimize your site on all of these search engines.

Google site verification

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You can verify your site from Google by using its Google webmaster tools (GWT).

Just create an account and add your site.

Google will give you a code you have to paste it on your website.

After pasting the code click on verify button your site will be verified.

For more details please visit the article Google site verification.

Yahoo site verification

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First sign in to yahoo site explorer.

Add URL of your website into My Sites Box. Press the add button.It will open my site webpage.

Just after your site there is authenticate button click on it.

It will open the verification page. From there you have the code paste it on your website and then on yahoo site verification verify your site.

For more details please visit the article Yahoo site verification.

Bing site verification

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Add your site to MSN search engine.

Before this first add XML file (liveSearchSiteAuth.xml) in the root directory of your web server.

After that process is same use Meta tag verification method or XML file method

Click verify button your site will be verified on Bing.

For more details please visit the article Bing site verification.

This is how you have to verify your site from these search engines. As I mentioned early this is the very important step in SEO, because this will show your existence to search engine.

Author: Nafeesa Waseem