Verifying that you own a site is the first step towards accessing all of the great features
Webmaster Tools
has to offer, such as
crawl errors
and
query statistics.
The Google Sites
and Blogger
teams have worked hard to make site verification as simple as possible. In the following videos,
I'll walk you through how to verify sites created in Google Sites and Blogger.
Google Sites
Blogger
These videos are available in our Help Center if you have additional questions about verifying a
Google Site
or
Blogger blog
with Webmaster Tools. And as always, you can find me and many other Googlers and webmasters in our
Webmaster Help Forum.
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