How to verify your site with Google

In order to use some of Google's web tools, you need to verify that you own the site with Google. You can do this by creating a page with a specific name Google provides you, as detailed here. This page describes what to do when you reach step 3 of Google's instructions.

  1. Get the filename from Google. This will look something like "google27r537d527456q7d.html"
  2. In WebXG, click on the menu Applications -> WebXG WebRES -> WebRES File Management then click on "Upload a new file" in red.
  3. Where it says "Enter new file name" replace this with the filename Google has provided, without the quotes.
  4. In the yellow edit box, put the following text, replacing the filename with your own: 

  5. google-site-verification: google27r537d527456q7d.html
    
<%flags>
inherit => undef
<%flags>
  6. Check the box "I understand these changes..." and click Save
  7. Now you must add the custom page. Click on "Back to all files" then in the menu click on Applications -> WebXG WebRES -> Custom Page Configuration
  8. Click on the "New Page" button and put the filename in the "Page name" field. Click on "Save page".
  9. You should now be able to view the page from a browser by going to yourwebsite.com/filename.html, using your usual URL and the filename from earlier. More importantly, Google's tools should be able to do the same.

Submitting a Sitemap to Google

In order to submit a sitemap to Google you'll have to create it manually and add it as a custom page. Please refer to Editing CSS & HTML for how to add custom pages. The sitemap should be created in the root directory of your site, so that it can cover all the content - for example: www.example.com/sitemap.xml

For help with the format of sitemaps that Google expects, please see Google Webmaster Tools Help for Sitemaps.

In order to prevent the WebXG content management system from adding HTML headers and footers to an XML sitemap, you need to add this additional bit of code to the end of your XML file:

<%flags>
inherit => undef
<%flags>