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Freelance Digital Specialist at Self Employed
25 November 2009 16:26pm
Hello there. I am working with a very large organisation and have been trying to fathom if Google Webmaster Tools can verify websites based on redirects. I fear not.
In short the company is using the following URL convention 'www.company.com' for everything. No URL masking in place or friendly URL's.
If a UK brand of said company has a website then a redirect of www.brand.co.uk takes the user back to www.company.com/home.do&ID=12345.
This makes it really hard to verify anything but the root domain with Google.
www.brand.co.uk/home.doID=12345 does resolve if you actually type it.
Has anyone come across this before and is it possible to verify 'www.brand.co.uk' separately from the root domain?
Many Thanks
Matt
Head of Ecommerce at Lovehoney
25 November 2009 18:53pm
Hi Matt,
I think it's time to dig out the server log files! ( though I fear this can't be done)
What is the verification bot actually looking for when you fire it? I fear, since the return call is coming from a different domain, the verification bot is freaking.
What is it in GWT that you're trying to find out? Does the home.doID return a competely differnt site, pages, sitemap, the lot? If it doesn't then most of the inbound stuff that GWT gives you can be measured in GA?
Other Matt
Technical Project Manager (MBA, MBCS, CITP, CEng) at Naxtech.com
25 November 2009 20:36pm
Hi Matt,
I think there is a way of doing this but it very much depends on the programming and how your site (and undelying database) is structured. If you email me with more details perhaps I can help.
regards,
Denis
www.naxtech.com - web development and online marketing
Freelance Digital Specialist at Self Employed
26 November 2009 15:03pm
Thanks both. At this stage out of fear of f'ing up what precious ranking we have, we have not yet attempted to verify in Google. At this point it's a hypothetical question. Denis - Ill follow up on email with he details for your opinion.
Matt