Verification of https domain in webmaster tool

[odmsoft]

Hi guys,

I'm having a problem to verify domain with https in webmaster tools. Does anybody know how to verify it?

Thanks

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Marina,

How are you trying to verify it? Meta Tag? Upload a file? DNS / Analytics?

Are you seeing an error message when you are trying to do this? You could also check here to see if it helps answer your question.

-Andy

[odmsoft]

Hi Andy,

My bad. I mistakenly said i'm unable to verify. I actually verified it. The thing i'm unable to do is to set preferred domain. I'm receiving this error when i select preferred domain (without www): "Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own http://www.youthfulhome.com/. Please verify http://www.mydomain.com/."

So i assume it treats https as different domain and doesn't see that i already verified it. Aby idea how i can set the preferred domain?

Thanks

[Alick300]

Hi Marina,

Please watch this video and you will know how to verify website in your case @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrpgQDLjGwc

You can also watch this @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTbN15gti0

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[odmsoft]

Thank you for help!

Unfortunately these tutorials not about https domains but about regular http domains.

Anyway thanks!

[RuthBurrReedy]

Hi Marina,

The last I heard on this (earlier this year), https wasn't supported in the Preferred Domain feature - only www or non-www. So make sure that your sitemap is submitted with https URLs, your internal links all point to https URLs, and your http version 301 redirects to your https version, and that would be sufficient.

[odmsoft]

Thank you Ruth!