Title: verifying Google Plus Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # verifying Google Plus * Resolved [kazzie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazzie/) * (@kazzie) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/verifying-google-plus/) * I have created a Google+ page and want to link it to my website. I have the following instructions from Google: Ask your site’s webmaster to add the following line of code to your site’s homepage: (and it gives me a code) * I am using Arclite theme and am not sure where to add this code. I think that I have to add it in Arclite: Header (header.php) but just not sure where to put it on this page. I would be really grateful if somebody could help me with this. * Thanks!!! * [http://www.thesouthafricaguide.com](http://www.thesouthafricaguide.com) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [md16185](https://wordpress.org/support/users/md16185/) * (@md16185) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/verifying-google-plus/#post-3314550) * You could post it as a sidebar element, then they would see that you are on Google+. * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/verifying-google-plus/#post-3314551) * > just not sure where to put it on this page * It really depends on where you want it to be on your page. * As suggested above, sidebars are good for that kind of thing, but the header or footer could work too. * Thread Starter [kazzie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazzie/) * (@kazzie) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/verifying-google-plus/#post-3314554) * The instructions that google give are “Copy and paste the code snippet provided to the Copy and paste the code snippet provided to the tag of your website”– so what I need to know is what/where is the the tag of my website. * Thread Starter [kazzie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazzie/) * (@kazzie) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/verifying-google-plus/#post-3314567) * Thanks for your help – both of you – I have sorted it 🙂 * [mataleo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mataleo/) * (@mataleo) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/verifying-google-plus/#post-3314797) * so how to do it please? * where past the code? * i got same problem * [essaysnark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/essaysnark/) * (@essaysnark) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/verifying-google-plus/#post-3314798) * Here’s a tutorial for how to implement Google authorship: [http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-googles-verified-authorship-for-your-wordpress-blog/](http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-googles-verified-authorship-for-your-wordpress-blog/) The code typically needs to go in the HTML head. How to do that could depend on your theme; generally it requires editing header.php, as WPyogi said. See the tutorial for more. * If you have more questions, please open a new thread for them. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘verifying Google Plus’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [code](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/code/) * [link](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/link/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [essaysnark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/essaysnark/) * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/verifying-google-plus/#post-3314798) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics