Verify site ownership

Overview#

Before Kauthar audits the whole site or changes anything, it asks you to prove ownership so nobody can add a website that isn't theirs. The Prove this website is yours card asks What is your website built with? with tiles: WordPress, Shopify, Salla, Zid, YouCan, Wix and I don't know / someone else built it, and Kauthar may detect the platform and preselect it. Each platform gets its easiest path: WordPress → Install the Kauthar plugin, then Connect to Kauthar (ownership is confirmed automatically); stores → Confirm through your linked store, or link the store first in one click; Wix → plain steps and Copy the verification code; I don't know → Send the instructions on WhatsApp or by email to whoever built your site, or Ask the Kauthar team to do it — your request reaches the team with a request number and they contact you on your account's phone. For developers: Other ways (for developers) (code on the page, DNS record, verification file, Search Console), and for plain websites on a hosting account, connecting the hosting proves ownership too. Once verified, the card disappears and a line reads Ownership confirmed via: ….

Who can use it

Business owner / manager

Where to find it

Sidebar → Google & AI visibility → Sites → the site (gear button)

Step by step#

1. 1
   Open the site from Sites (gear button); the Prove this website is yours card is at the top.
2. 2
   Pick your site's platform from the tiles; the easiest way for it appears.
3. 3
   Follow it (install the plugin, confirm through the linked store, or paste the verification code), then click Check now.
4. 4
   If you don't know: pick I don't know and click Send the instructions on WhatsApp (or by email) to whoever built your site.
5. 5
   Or click Ask the Kauthar team to do it and the team will contact you.
6. 6
   Developers can open Other ways (for developers) and use a code on the page, a DNS record, a file or Search Console.

Tips#

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