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Hi,

I have created a sitewww.www.nicennaughtycakes.co.uk... and am trying to get google to list it. I have created a meta name="google-site-verification" content="9yCSNJbNQRXr27uNBHF7gy1XP0S05wux3ZlzTQsFEBI" /> page, but it still is not listed

When I search google for the the site name I get this error:
Your search - nicennaughtycakes.co.uk - did not match any documents.

Any ideas please
 
LucasAnderson replied on at Permalink Reply
LucasAnderson
While this really isn't a concrete5 related question, my suggestion would be to create a Google Webmaster account athttp://www.google.com/webmasters/... and add your site to it, as well as create a sitemap.xml file in the concrete5 backend and submit it to Google.

You will find that it may take a while to be listed by Google, especially with a new and small site. These things don't happen instantly.
smartwebprojects replied on at Permalink Reply
smartwebprojects
Google doesn't add new site to index immediately. It usually takes 1-2 weeks to have your website appear in google search. But the more external links you have to your website from trusted sources, the faster Google adds your website.
smartwebprojects replied on at Permalink Reply
smartwebprojects
By the way, I don't see <meta name="google-site-verification" content="9yCSNJbNQRXr27uNBHF7gy1XP0S05wux3ZlzTQsFEBI" /> in the source code of HTML athttp://www.nicennaughtycakes.co.uk/...

You should edit 'concrete/themes/default/elements/header.php' to add that tag to <head>

Or you can choose another method of site verification with google webmaster tools: uploading an html file (I prefer this one).
Mnkras replied on at Permalink Reply
Mnkras
@smartwebprojects i tend to stick that in the /elements/header_required.php
hursey013 replied on at Permalink Reply
hursey013
You can also use the custom page attribute "header extra content" on the homepage to add in the meta tag from Google if you dont want to manually edit header/header_required.php.
agedman replied on at Permalink Reply
agedman
I haven't tested it, but to me, the suggestion by hursey013 seems the cleanest solution, especially since the verification code only needs to be in the header of the home page.
bke replied on at Permalink Reply
Yep. That works. Thank you.