Preferred Domain error: Part of Process of setting a preferred domain is to verify
http://www.domainname.com/. Please verify http://www.domainname.com/
If you have owned a new domain say www.newdomain.com and you have this domain on the list of Google webmaster sites. When you go to the settings to change the preferred domain for this site from http://newdomain.com to http://www.newdomain.com or vice versa, Google doesn’t let you to change the preferred domain. An errors occurs which says “Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own http://www.newdomain.com/. Please verify http://www.newdomain.com/”. But your Google webmaster doesn’t show any verification option and www.newdomain.com already present in the list of site and is already verified and you are confused what to do then here is the solution.
Solution of the problem.
If you see the list of your verified sites in Google webmaster tools you will see that www.yourdomain.com is present in the list and is verified but http://yourdomain.com (that is domain name without www) is not present in the list.
Go to the add new site option and add that site without www. Verify the site if google shows an options but normally google don’t show any option and your site will be verified automatically by using other parameters.
Now you should have two sites in the list.
1. http://www.yourdomain.com
2. http://yourdomain.com (that is same domain name but without www.)
If you have these two names on the list then now go to preferred domain settings and choose your domain. There will be no error this time and you will select the domain successfully. After sometime your non-preferred domain will disappear from the webmaster list and Google search results and only the preferred domain will appear everywhere.
If you have any question feel free to write them below in the comments section.
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