Title: Activating Webmaster Tools
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Activating Webmaster Tools

 *  Resolved [happiercat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happiercat/)
 * (@happiercat)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-webmaster-tools/)
 * Hello,
    I’m trying to activate Google Webmaster Tools. Step one is they give 
   you an html page to download. Step 2 is that you upload it to your own site so
   they can verify it’s yours.
 * Where are you supposed to upload it? As a page? a post? Media?
    How can you keep
   it from being publicly visible? Thanks in advance.

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 *  [Andrew Mills](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewmills/)
 * (@andrewmills)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-webmaster-tools/#post-3535841)
 * You’re on the right track, but don’t try to put it “in” through your WordPress
   dashboard. You want to upload that HTML file into your site with an FTP client
   or your cPanel File Manager. Just upload it to the root of your website (the 
   public_html or www folder, usually).
 * It must be publicly visible, so Google’s bot can crawl it and verify it’s there.
   Don’t worry– people are not likely to find it because you aren’t going to link
   to it, and even if they did find it somehow, there’s nothing sensitive inside
   it.
 *  Thread Starter [happiercat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happiercat/)
 * (@happiercat)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-webmaster-tools/#post-3535866)
 * Thank you – that helped. Got it working now.
    Have a good night!
 *  [Andrew Mills](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewmills/)
 * (@andrewmills)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-webmaster-tools/#post-3535867)
 * You are quite welcome. Glad I was able to help.
 * When you have a moment, could I ask you to please mark this thread as resolved?
   Thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [happiercat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happiercat/)
 * (@happiercat)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-webmaster-tools/#post-3535873)
 * Ok. Thanks again Andrew!

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-webmaster-tools/#post-3535873)
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