{"id":172,"date":"2009-10-07T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T14:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2018-04-10T02:50:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T07:50:16","slug":"new-google-webmaster-tools-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/new-google-webmaster-tools-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"New Google Webmaster Tools Verification; Sitemap Automator 2.2 Beta Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, Google changed the way <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/changes-to-website-verification-in.html\">verification works for your website<\/a>. Instead of just publishing a blank file to your web server, you now need to download a special XML file that contains important information about your account.<\/p>\n<p>In version 2.1 of <span class='wp_keywordlink'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/products\/googlesitemap.html\" title=\"Sitemap Automator\">Sitemap Automator<\/a><\/span>, you only have the option of pasting a file name in the &#8216;Publish Verification File&#8217; command under the File menu. We posted a new beta version a few days ago which will now let you publish the actual verification file that Google provides.<\/p>\n<p>The new beta of <span class='wp_keywordlink'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/products\/googlesitemap.html\" title=\"Sitemap Automator\">Sitemap Automator<\/a><\/span> also includes enhanced support for MobileMe including publishing to the root directory so you no longer need to re-publish your XML Sitemap file each time you publish your iWeb site.<\/p>\n<p>The beta version of Sitemap Automator can be downloaded from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trybeta.com\">Trybeta<\/a>. Just create a free beta testers account on the website.<\/p>\n<p>If you find problems with this version, please let as know as soon as possible. <!--codes_iframe--><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, Google changed the way verification works for your website. Instead of just publishing a blank file to your web server, you now need to download a special XML file that contains important information about your account. In version 2.1 of Sitemap Automator, you only have the option of pasting a file name in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[30,50,98,99,37],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rage-google-sitemap-automator","category-software","tag-google-webmaster-tools","tag-sitemap-automator","tag-trybeta","tag-verification","tag-xml-sitemap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragesw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}