How to add Marketo landing page domain to Google Webmaster tools?

Question

Hi,

I'm following up on a previous question I had regarding landing pages that were not showing up in Google search , Adam kindly suggested

You need a link between your site & the Marketo page for a search engine to find it. Or you can just submit the URL to Google Webmaster tools for it to be instantly crawled. That's under HEALTH --> Fetch as Google.

I have asked our webmaster and she said that domain name is not in the list as it's "created" by Marketo. Have you encountered same issue? How did you proceed?

Cécile @ Talend

Anonymous · Answer

Your webmaster needs a lesson in CNAMEs.

Yes you can but you need to manipulate things a bit.

If in your landing page templates, you have updated to the latest google tracking code and placed it in the head, set GA to load the async version in your Marketo template, then there is a new verification feature in webmaster tools. It is simple to use.

If not, go old school and

Add your site and use the alternate method of verification
Generate a verification file
Create a minimum version of a Marketo template. Literally just a head, body and the minimum include lines and your google meta tag data. Approve the template.
Create a landing page use the Google filename as provide in step 1
Check with Webmaster tools

and your done

Cheers, Eric

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