8. To "Verify Ownership" select the second option. The one that says "HTML tag".

9. Once inside "HTML tag" click the "copy" buton.

We're almost done. Have you been able to follow all these steps so far? A few more steps and we're good to go.

10. Go to the backoffice of your WordPress site. On the side bar on the left, search for "Appearance" and after that click "Theme Editor".

11. Check the area were it says "Theme Files" on the right and click "header.php". In some Themes it may appear as "Theme Header (header.php)".

12. In the scrip that appears, insert the text you had copied earlier (in step 9). This text must be inserted, as seen in the picture below, just before the "head" section ends and the "body" section starts.

You could do this: Stand on the last line of the head section. Click Enter. A new line will appear. Paste the text you copied in step 9 in this new line.

Look at the script on your site and try to find the place where the head section ends and the body section starts.

13. Check here in the picture below, how the text copied in step 9 has been pasted in the script. After you have done this, please click "Update File".



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Imageguy55 Premium Plus
Hi Henry,
Thanks for the tutorial. I kept on clicking on Domain instead of URL prefix. Once I did that it “auto verified” without going through all the steps. But I am not sure why it’s not showing any data. I have two websites. The newer website is not showing any data. My articles have been indexed. But at least it’s verified
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Judy-B Premium
Hi Henry,
Thank you for the tutorial. I have a problem with the Theme Files. It said if I continued doing this myself I could break the site so that scared me off. So is this safe to do or should I just leave it alone? I'm thinking I will leave it alone.
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Henry-II Premium
@Judy-B
Hi! Give me a minute. I'm here online. Yes, please be careful. That code must be dealt carefully.
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Henry-II Premium
@Judy-B
Ok, the instruction on Google Search Console reads: "Copy the meta tag below, and paste it into your sites home page. It should go in the <head> section, before the first <body> section.

That's what has been done when pasting the code in the screenshots. And it worked for me.

But I'll do a quick modification of the screenshot and show the exact same place where Kyle in his video pasted it. Do this:

1.) In step 13, instead of pasting it in line 20, click Enter.
2.) Paste the code in the new line that appears (line 21 in the case of the screenshot).
3.) </head> will move to line 22 in the case of the screenshot.

If you can view a video, check Kyle directly explaining it here: Go to minute 4:44 to specifically see this that I'm telling you in this comment.

Please tell me if it also worked for you.
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Henry-II Premium
@Judy-B
Here are Kyle's screenshots on the video for the place where to place the code:
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Judy-B Premium
@Henry-II
Thank you for the detailed help. I thought I did it, but it's not working. I will have to work on this some more. Again, thank you for all your help. :)
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Henry-II Premium
@Judy-B
Hi Judy.

I'm really happy to hear that. Thank you very much for stopping by and telling us.

Keep well. Stay safe. Have a nice evening.
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Judy-B Premium
@Henry-II
You probably didn't see my reply above. I need to work on it more because it isn't working. Thank you
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Henry-II Premium
@Judy-B
Ahh, yeah, I'm re-reading, sorry.

Please, would you mind sharing some screenshots of what messages have been coming up? Are you able to watch video? Have you seen Kyle's video?
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Judy-B Premium
@Henry-II
Sorry, Henry. I thought it was working then realized it wasn't. I followed Kyle's video. I don't know. I'm pretty flustered with the whole thing right now. This happens to me a lot. I'll let it sit and hope that it will work later. Thank you so much for trying to help. It's appreciated.

I haven't really gotten any messages. I just put the code in like it says to do and I verify it but it says failed.
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lowbeelian Premium
Thanks for this training. Few days ago, I was struggling to get it verified too. But I did not use this method, as I wasn't sure where to paste the code, the header and tail languages confuse me! I think i chose the HTML tag, and copied the HTML code, and paste into the WordPress All-in-One SEO Settings, under the Google Search Console dialogue box. Press "update". Then go back to Google Search Console and "verify it". it worked for me.
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Henry-II Premium
@lowbeelian
Hi! I'm happy to hear you already verified your site at Google Search Console. Yes, it's refreshing to see that green window pop-up saying "Ownership Verified".

Thank you very much for stopping by and for your comment.
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lowbeelian Premium
@Henry-II
Thank you once again, I bookmarked some of your trainings too!
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Henry-II Premium
@lowbeelian
You're most welcome. :)

After you verify your website with Google Search Console you have to submit the sitemap of your site to Google Search Console. This is even easier than the verification process. If you would like to check how to submit sitemap, check this out:
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lowbeelian Premium
@Henry-II
Thank you!
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Henry-II Premium
@lowbeelian
You're most welcome.

Have a nice day. Keep well, stay safe. :)
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Claudiojuan Premium
Now I can see the complete tutorial. I congratulate you on the clarity of it. I will save it for future reference. Thank you!
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Henry-II Premium
@Claudiojuan
Thank you very much for checking it again. Good the problem got solved!
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Claudiojuan Premium
Henry, I can see only the first 3 steep, please check..
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Henry-II Premium
@Claudiojuan
Hi Claudio. Yeah, thank you very much for warning me. I'll see why the last part isn't showing.
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Henry-II Premium
Hi Claudio! I have reformatted this training to 3 pages. I don't know why the last section hasn't been showing but I hope it's solved this way.

If you check out and the last section of the tutorial is still missing, please don't hesitate to write to me again. Thank you very, very much!
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