Google Webmaster Tools DNS verification with Slicehost

May 6th, 2010
Google added a new way to verify your site in their Webmaster Tools: through a DNS TXT entry. It took me a couple of tries to figure out how to properly enter it through Slicehost's DNS GUI:
  1. Type: TXT
  2. Name: Enter the FQD name domain that you put in Google Webmaster Tools I.e. for this site, I would use www.robertbolton.com or robertbolton.com, depending on what I entered into Webmaster Tools.
  3. Data: Enter the value provided by Google (i.e. google-site-verification: waRANDbRgWxXfEBMKhl8c1v8fL1kcVvRtPFU-OmN9I1)
To see if it worked, you can use the command line "host -t txt robertbolton.com" and a result should come back. Or just cross your fingers and click the verify button in Google...

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I should clarify, if you add your site as www.site.com to Webmaster tools, you will want to create a text record with www.site.com as the name. if you add it as site.com to Webmaster Tools, then use site.com as the name.

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