More Ways to Verify Site Ownership
For all you Webmasters who like to shake up your verification options, Google has added a third method to Webmaster Tools: DNS verification. One advantage this option has is that it allows you to verify all sites on a domain at once. For example, if your URL is www.mywebsite.com and you also have the following sites: blog.mywebsite.com and books.mywebsite.com, the DNS option allows you to verify all sites at once. If you verified these sites with the HTML or Meta tag option, you’d have to go through the process for each individual site.
To use this new option, log into Webmaster Tools and click the “Add a Site” button. Enter a URL.
Next, choose the DNS verification method from the drop down verification methods menu. You’ll then be given the data to add as a TXT record to your DNS settings.
Log into your domain registrar and edit the DNS settings. Not all domain registrars support TXT DNS records, so this option may not actually be available to you. You’ll know if your registrar allows this when you click DNS settings and are presented with a list of allowed records. Among them you may see: A, CNAME, URL Redirect, URL frame, MX, NS, SRV, TXT. (Look around, you may have to check in drop down menus to see these options). TXT is a strictly informational DNS entry to indicate an association (in this case, that you own the domain). If you don’t see TXT, this is not a verification option for you at this time.
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Norman Rogers says
I’ve used the tools for over a year now and it’s always nice to find posts about how the particulars work–it saves time to know!