{"id":1049,"date":"2021-04-28T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T10:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=1049"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T10:16:15","slug":"how-to-verify-your-domain-for-google-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/documentation\/how-to-verify-your-domain-for-google-and-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"How to verify your domain for Google and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google and Facebook sometimes ask you to verify your domain for their services to work correctly with your site. They usually offer a few different ways to verify your domain, and SMILE can help you with some of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Google<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Google usually asks for domain verification for <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9008080?hl=en\">Search Console<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Google Tag Manager<\/strong>: If you have Google Tag Manager installed and you have publish permissions on the container, verifying should be as simple as pressing the &#8216;verify&#8217; button in Search Console.<\/li><li><strong>Meta tag<\/strong>: Send SMILE the &lt;meta&gt; tag from Search Console and we&#8217;ll add it it to your site. It&#8217;ll look something like this:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;meta name=\"google-site-verification\" content=\"your verification string\"&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>DNS<\/strong>: You&#8217;ll need to ask your domain name provider to add a new DNS record to your domain.<\/li><li><strong style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">HTML file<\/strong><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">: This option isn&#8217;t supported for HappyPress sites.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facebook<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll likely need to verify your domain if you&#8217;re using <a href=\"http:\/\/verification\">Facebook Business Manager<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Meta tag<\/strong>: SMILE can help you here! Just send us the &lt;meta&gt; tag provided in Business Manager and we&#8217;ll get it added to your site. It&#8217;ll look something like this:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;meta name=\"facebook-domain-verification\" content=\"your verification string\" \/&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>DNS<\/strong>: Get in touch with your domain provider and have them add a new DNS record to your domain.<\/li><li><strong>HTML file<\/strong>: We don&#8217;t support the HTML file upload method on HappyPress sites.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Facebook sometimes ask you to verify your domain for their services to work correctly with your site. They usually offer a few different ways to verify your domain, and SMILE can help you with some of them. Google Google usually asks for domain verification for Search Console. Google&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[92],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1049","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1049\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearesmile.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}