- Register you new account or signin to Google Webmaster Tools with your existing Google account
- Once logged into the account, on the home page, click on Add a site button
- In the text box that appears enter the complete URL of your blog like 'http://ebizhome.blogspot.com/
- You will be taken to a new page where you will see:
- Site URL
- Verification Status
- Verification Method (dropdown is displayed with Meta Tag option already selected)
- Meta tag highlighted in a box (This is your key to Google Webmaster Tools Verification)
- Verify & Verify Later buttons
- Copy the meta tag by selecting the text that is displayed in the box.
- Login to your blog (In a new window)
- Click on the Layout option in the tabs on the top
- Once on the Layout page, click on the 'Edit Html' link just below the Layout tab
- You will see a page with a text editor and some misterious editable text, called HTML in it :)
- Locate a line with the text '' in it, it will be around 8th line from the top
- Just after paste the code that you copied from Webmaster tool verification page
- Now click the 'Save Template' button
- Again go back to the webmaster tool page that was opened in the other tab/page
- Click on the Verify button
If you followed the steps to configure you website/blog properly, by now you will be happy to know that you have enabled you blogspot webmaster tools account. You can sit back, relax and enjoy you posting....