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title: "google-site-verification · Meta Tag · zhead"
canonical_url: "https://zhead.dev/meta/google-site-verification"
last_updated: "2026-08-13T08:00:03.005Z"
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  description: "Verifies ownership of a site in Google Search Console. Google provides the exact token to place on the site’s top-level page."
  "og:description": "Verifies ownership of a site in Google Search Console. Google provides the exact token to place on the site’s top-level page."
  "og:title": "google-site-verification · Meta Tag · zhead"
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Meta tags

# google-site-verification

Verifies ownership of a site in Google Search Console. Google provides the exact token to place on the site’s top-level page.

## Code examples

Good example

```
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="your_verification_code">
```

Replace this placeholder with the exact token issued by Search Console.

Avoid this example

```
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="">
```

An empty value cannot prove control of the site.

## Recommendations

- 01 Copy the Token Exactly The content value is case-sensitive and must match the token from Search Console exactly.
- 02 Keep It After Verification The token is meant to be public in the HTML. Leave it deployed so Search Console can check ownership again later.
- 03 Put It on the Top-Level Page Add the tag to the head of the site’s top-level page. Search Console will not verify a token placed on an unrelated child page.

## Related documentation

- [Google Search Central: Special Tags](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/special-tags#google-site-verification)
- [support.google.com: 9008080](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9008080)

## Related meta tags

### [author](https://zhead.dev/meta/author)

name

Names one author of the page. Add another author meta tag for each additional author.

```
<meta name="author" content="Jane Doe">
```

Names the author exactly as credited on the page.

### [charset](https://zhead.dev/meta/charset)

charset

Declares the character encoding used by the HTML document. In modern HTML, the value must be UTF-8.

```
<meta charset="utf-8">
```

The required character encoding for modern HTML.

### [description](https://zhead.dev/meta/description)

name

Summarizes the page for directories and search engines. Google may use it as a search result snippet when it describes the page better than the visible content does.

```
<meta name="description" content="Bake 12 vanilla cupcakes in 35 minutes. Includes metric measurements, storage notes, and fixes for cakes that sink.">
```

Specific details tell the reader what the recipe covers.

### [google](https://zhead.dev/meta/google)

name

Carries Google-specific page controls. Google currently documents nopagereadaloud for this metadata name.

```
<meta name="google" content="nopagereadaloud">
```

The documented Google-specific opt-out for page read-aloud services.

### [google-site-verification](https://zhead.dev/meta/google-site-verification)

name

Verifies ownership of a site in Google Search Console. Google provides the exact token to place on the site’s top-level page.

```
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="your_verification_code">
```

Replace this placeholder with the exact token issued by Search Console.