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Webmaster Tools Now Available

Posted by John » 9 Comments » Filed under Qhub

The more search engine savvy Qhub owners among you will have been frustrated at the lack of a tools for verification and sitemap submission.? Well, now you can do this in the Webmaster Tools page (accessible from your Settings Page).

Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing require you to upload a text file to your web site, to prove that you are allowed to administer the site.? On Qhub, instead of uploading a file,? you simply specify the name of the file and its contents.? This URL of this file is relative to the root of the Qhub.

When you have verified your ownership of your Qhub, tell each search engine that your sitemap is /sitemap.xml .? You may also be able to specify your activity feed: /rss/activity .

Here are the locations of the ‘big three’ webmaster tool providers:

You will need to have your own login on each of these sites.

There's 9 Comments So Far

  • adymat
    June 30th, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    I have verified my site in Google and Bing for webmaster verification except Yahoo for, I have failed to get it verified there for no understandable reason by me despite repeated attempt for that. Possible reason given by yahoo is that possibly my site is blocking yahoo slurp to visit your site.

  • Justin
    June 30th, 2010 at 8:08 pm

    I keep getting, 403 forbidden, if i am redirect via DNS, are there other instructions?

  • John
    July 1st, 2010 at 12:31 pm

    Adymat, your yahoo verification file contents is incorrect. It should just contain the number that they specify; you have a bunch of html tags in there too. Just paste the number into the file contents field, and you should be fine.

    Justin, where are you seeing the 403 response? Is one of the search engine tools reporting that?

  • Justin
    July 1st, 2010 at 1:27 pm

    This happens when i visit my URL answer.brighterblooms.com/sitemap.xml and answer.brighterblooms.com/googlexxxxxxxxxx.html

  • John
    July 1st, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    Sorry Justin, that’s fixed now!

  • Justin
    July 1st, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    Thanks John.

  • adymat
    July 1st, 2010 at 6:14 pm

    Thanks! It’s OK. I have tried every possible thing, but I can’t get it talk. I am leaving it currently in a state advised by you.

  • DigitalArsonist
    July 2nd, 2010 at 7:33 am

    As an alternative you could always verify your qhub with meta-tags you can insert in the header.

  • Vashok
    July 2nd, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    I will check it .

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