1) Signup and/or
Login for a Google Webmaster Tools account
2) Click
ADD A SITE, enter the URL of your site starting with "www." and click Continue.
3) You should be re-directed to the Verification page. If not then Click
Verify this site
4) Click,
Alternate methods and Choose,
Add a meta tag to your site's home page *
(See screenshot below)
5) Choose,
"HTML tag" (Add a meta tag to your site's home page)
6) Copy the meta tag provided, and paste it into your
COOLSite Admin >Meta Tags > HTML HEAD TEXT
7) Go back to the Google verify page and click
Verify at the bottom.
8) It should show
Verification successful, then click Continue
9) Below Website URL it should now show
Verified
10) Click
Claim this URL and it should display
Verified and claimed
* Screenshot per step 4 above.

Article ID: 294, Created: 1/26/2012 at 2:07 PM, Modified: 11/11/2013 at 1:00 PM