Verifying and claiming your store’s website
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Key terms
Verify
When you verify your website, you let Google know that you're the owner of the website. You're the website owner if you can make edits to your website content. If you’re not the website owner, you’ll need to work together with your website owner or administrator to verify the website.
Claim
When you claim your website address, you associate your verified website address with your Merchant Center account, creating a link between them. Linking your website address and your Merchant Center account reserves the website address for use with your account exclusively.
These are the steps to verify and claim your store's website (primary domain) in Google Merchant Center account.
Select Business information -> Add Online store
Step 2:
Enter the URL for your online store -> Continue.
Step 3:
From the Verify your website section, select Add an HTML tag or upload an HTML file to your website as your preferred method. This method will work best and easy for the Shopify-based online store. Then select Add an HTML tag. Copy the HTML Tag & paste it under "<head>" section of the "theme.liquid" file of your store's active theme. Navigate back to Google Merchant Center page and click Verify Website.
Step 4:
Clicking on Verify website, will display the Verified status under the store domain instantly. To complete the domain verification and claiming process, click the Claim website button.
