Google have announce another way to verify you own a domain in their webmaster tools, via a DNS TXT record.
\nThis solves a problem I have had many times in that it verifies the whole domain.<\/p>\n
Until now, you had to verify you owned every sub-domain on a domain before you could use webmaster tools for it, while for most sites this is fine, you verify the www. version, sometimes there are a couple more that need to be done.
\nfor example on my site, I use the non-www domain, also there is a dev. and a api. that also need their own verification meta tag\/html file. If I want to use webmaster tools on another sub-domain I have to verify again… this becomes a tiresome process.<\/p>\n
Enter the new DNS verification. You now add a TXT record to your dns and it automatically covers any sub-domains you add.
\nThat’s it… done! There is of course the usual dns propagation you have to worry about so it may not be a quick as adding a meta tag, but it defiantly saves time in the long run.<\/p>\n
You can find out more by visiting the Google Web master tools<\/a> or popping over to the Webmaster Central blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google have announce another way to verify you own a domain in their webmaster tools, via a DNS TXT record. This solves a problem I have had many times in that it verifies the whole domain. Until now, you had to verify you owned every sub-domain on a domain before you could use webmaster tools […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[150,41],"tags":[167,20,145,166,144],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}