Comments on: Verifying a googlepages site for Webmaster Tools

By: CJS

CJS — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:57:20 +0000

i got it!!!……i didnt read your guidlines as close as i thought…thankyou

By: CJS

CJS — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:42:40 +0000

i follow your directions above but i still get a 404 error. i read your post about the link that points to a website that will allow you to see the status codes for a file that doesn’t exist on your site, but i get confused and dont know what to do. any idea?

By: Stated Machete

Stated Machete — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:09:42 +0000

Thanks a bunch guy! I wonder why Google doesnt add this info to their database. There is a conspiracy theory i believe!

By: Gyan prakash

Gyan prakash — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:49:25 +0000

I have created web pages but still not able to verify my web pages. I am getting same error 404. kindly help me.

Gyan

By: Terry Lowe

Terry Lowe — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:25:42 +0000

Thank you so much I have been trying for about a week to get my site verified with the instructions google give, (as clear as mud), I don’t know why they just don’t direct people here. I was wondering do you think is worth doing all this stuff with site maps not that I know what it is all about. Anyway thanks again.

By: Gwyn

Gwyn — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:15:06 +0000

Thanks so much for the tutorial, you’re a lifesaver! I believe I am following all the rules, but I still get 404 File not found. My issue: I’m saving the file in Word as a web page, filtered. My upload still reads: google84d44f5cf1ec5ed2.html.doc. So I have the html part, but it is adding .doc that I neither want nor need. Can you help?

By: Big John

Big John — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:00:58 +0000

I created a web site with register.com I am trying to get it verified with google but register.com will not let me paste anything in the header or ad html. What do I do since I have spent so much time creating this page. Thanks for any help you could give me.

By: Aida

Aida — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:12:54 +0000

Dear John,

I think I might have a similar problem to Ronald, 8thMarch.
I have my pages in google, I have indexed them, I have verified them, I have add the sitemap, and still Google doesn´t crawl my pages.

Do you, please, have any suggestions for me?

Thank you for your care.
Best
Aida

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:21:51 +0000

Thanks so much for taking the time to explain each step! And now that you’ve shown yourself as a guru, any random thoughts on how I can get all the html mumbo-jumbo PayPal “Pay Now” button on my google webiste?

By: prakash.nagdev

prakash.nagdev — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:34:42 +0000

i did check with your instruction as per your comments on this page post no 18. when checked with my url ie earncashworkathome .com. googlepages. com i got 302 found/found and code 200 ok/ok in result code but when i verify with webmaster i get 404 server time out or site not found or your header error. sir will you be kind enough get me out of this mess.

By: Riley

Riley — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:32:30 +0000

I did everything perfect. but it always comes up “We encountered an error looking up your site’s domain name”. I dont get it? someone help me?. wait can i use mozilla firefox or do i have to se internet explorer?

By: Takun

Takun — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:46:55 +0000

I followed all your directions and it still says NOT VERIFIED : We encountered an error looking up your site’s domain name.

I don’t know if it’s because google hasn’t crawled my site yet its all published .. any ides. I uploaded the google.html file to the root of my dir tree name.googlepages.com/ and it just dosn’t want to varify .. sigh..

By: Bhauna

Bhauna — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:50:13 +0000

It worked! You’re a genius to all us mere (non-techy) mortals!
Thanks John

By: Bhauna

Bhauna — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:36:00 +0000

thanks for replying John, really appreciate it. will give it a shot and let you know how it works out. can’t buy you a beer from over here, but if you ever need free legal advice, you know who to call!
B

By: Gerald

Gerald — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:16:48 +0000

Thanks for the advice in using word in an html download to google. You do use the “save as” then copy in the address exactly and in the bottom of the window “save as type you must choose “web page, filtered” and when you go to save it it will warn you about saving as that type say yes. Thanks so much for the help.

By: John Honeck "JLH"

John Honeck "JLH" — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:58:52 +0000

Bhauna,

I’m not an expert in Googlepages, but I’ll give it a shot.

If you click the “site settings” link in the upper right of your site manager page, you will see a setting in bold for “Homepage” described as, ‘The homepage is the default page for your site’. If you’ve got that set to “-no homepage-” when you access the site without the /home on it will give you a 404. However if you set that to your home page (it doesn’t need to be home, you could select any page you want) whenever some access your site with just the base address of yoursite.googlepages.com it will show that page. The page will also be available at yoursite.googlepages.com/home but if you set your links on your pages to the base address that is what should eventually be shown in the search engines.

By: Bhauna

Bhauna — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:44:23 +0000

Hi John,
thank u so much for creating this posting site. I love the GPC and how hands on it is, but i would kill to be able to ask someone questions. I am very new to this and have followed the steps for verifying and accessing the webmaster tools, but keep coming up with the 404. The webmaster says my site is verified, I used the html file route. But can’t tell me anymore because of the 404 error.
I can only access my site by putting in the ‘/home’ bit at the end.

Am i nuts? I would really appreciate any help you can offer!
thanks
B

By: John Honeck "JLH"

John Honeck "JLH" — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:18:17 +0000

In Word you can choose “save as” from the file menu, then select “as webpage” which will allow you to save it as xxxx.html. The file name needs to be EXACTLY as Google says it is, the addition of .doc or anything else will not work.

After files are uploaded on Googlepages there will be a little garbage can next to them in the list, click that to delete them.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:29:40 +0000

I have Word as my text editor and it adds .doc at the end of my file, is that why I can’t get verified? Also how do I get rid of files I have uploaded to my site?
Plese help

By: prakash.nagdev

prakash.nagdev — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:21:36 +0000

i get code 404 and header not found when i last tried with site verification using above steps.