Assign additional users in Google Webmaster Central

Posted January 16th, 2012 in Miscellaneous Postings

I needed to assign an additional verfied owner in Google Webmaster Central for a website today and forgot how to do it because it's not in a very obvious place. This post will help me remember next time if I forget again, and hopefully will help some other people too if you have the same problem.

Assign additional verified owners

It's possible for multiple people to take ownership of a domain in Google Webmaster Central by adding an HTML file, meta tag or DNS entry, but you can also assign ownership / verified ownership in the interface if you are already a verified owner.

When you've logged in to webmaster central the home page shows a list of domains you have ownership of. An example of one of the entries in my own account is in the following screenshot:

Click the "Manage Site" control and a menu will appear which is shown in the screenshot above. Select the "Add or remove" owners option to do just that.

It's fairly obvious what to do on the next page as shown in the screenshot below. Click the "Add Owner" button to add a new verified owner, and you can remove one by clicking "Unverify".