====== How to verify your site in Google Search Console (formally Google Webmaster Tools) ======
Once your site is live, log into your [[https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/|Google Search Console account]].

Make sure you log in with a Google account.  Usually these are emails that end in @gmail.com but if your company is using google apps they might end with your company's domain name.

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Verify your site by adding a meta tag
  - On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the Manage Site button next to the site you want, and then click Verify this site.
  - If HTML tag is not visible on the Recommended method tab, click the Alternate methods tab.
  - Select HTML tag, and follow the steps on your screen.
  - Please send us this tag in an email and we will add it to your site.

If the site does not verify immediately, wait a couple hours and try again.  There could be a delay on Google's end on the verification.