Adding Verification Code Through Yoast seo
To add the webmaster tools verification code, please follow these steps:
- First create a webmaster tools property through the following link https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ click "Add" to add website property
- Choose an alternative method using HTML tags, save the code to be inserted into wordpress, then please log in to wordpress
- Install and activate the Yoast SEO plugin on wordpress first, and here is the Yoast SEO installation guide
From the admin dashboard of your WordPress site, look on the left side of the screen for the Plugins option. Hovering over the top, you will see the Add New option.
Click Add New and you'll be taken to a page with a selection of featured, popular, recommended, and favorite plugins. If you don't see Yoast SEO listed in this section, type it in the search bar to find it.
Install plugin Yoast
After finding the Yoast SEO plugin, click Install Now and WordPress will do the download process. After the download is complete, activate the plugin. If it has been successfully installed and is already active, you will see an option marked SEO in the left sidebar menu of the WordPress admin dashboard like the following example.
- Once installed there will be an SEO menu on the wordpress dashboard, please select the menu, then select the webmaster tools tab.
- Enter the webmaster tools verification code that you previously saved and adjust it to the platform used, in this case using webmaster tools
- After completion, verify from the Webmaster Tools side. Verification may not be possible immediately, please wait a few hours if the code is not recognized.
You have successfully verified the webmaster tools. There are many things you can do with webmaster tools. Apart from being an SEO tool, webmaster tools can detect errors on the website so that it is well optimized, the more you experiment with webmaster tools the more uses you get, good luck.