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WPO: Verify domain ownership for Google Search Console via DNS record

How to add the 'google-site-verification' DNS record to verify domain ownership for Google Search Console using the WPO DNS tab

Justin Catello avatar
Written by Justin Catello
Updated over 4 months ago

For those adding their domain to Google Search Console:

Google will ask you to verify that you own the domain, the preferred method to do this is via a DNS record. While you may or may not know what a DNS record is, don't be scared, it's very easy to do if you follow this guide.

Step #1:

Log into https://wpo.bigscoots.com/ and click the 'My Sites' tab on the left-hand side menu.

Step #2:

Now select the domain from the list you are trying to verify with Google, in this example, we will be using learn-wpo.com.

Step #3:

On the next page, you will have a new horizontal menu, from the new menu, select the DNS tab.

Now you may feel a bit overwhelmed with what you are about to see on the next screen but pay no attention, only focus on the fields at the top:

From here, 3 things need to happen.

  1. Click the 'A' dropdown and change it to 'TXT'.

  2. Simply put in a '@' in the Name field(@ indicates your domain name)

  3. Use the 'COPY' button to copy the google-site-verification record from Google as shown below:

Once you are done filling in the fields, it will look similar to this:

Now click the Add Record button to the right.

Step #4:

You're just about there! In the very last step, click the Verify button back on Google:

If all goes well, you should be greeted with a verified message:

If for some reason you don't, please watch a few minutes and try again, the DNS record we added can take several minutes to a couple of hours to update.


For any further questions, you can reach out to the BigScoots support team. We are more than happy to help you!

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