# 16-May-2026 — verify NGX sites with Google Search Console [ref #263](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/issues/263)

## [build 646](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/actions/runs/25948433695) — [commit 76a88f4](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/commit/76a88f47eed3303ae04aece0412c18dfeb4c39b0)

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- Adds a Google Search Console panel under System Settings, External Systems,
Security. It verifies the site with Google Search Console using the HTML tag
method, so no Cloudflare or DNS access is needed.

- A site administrator creates a URL-prefix property in Search Console, picks
the HTML tag verification method, and pastes the verification meta tag into
the panel. NGX extracts the content value from the pasted tag automatically,
so there is no need to trim it by hand, and confirms on screen what was
applied.

-  When a verification id is set, the server adds the google-site-verification
meta tag to every page, so Google's crawler sees it without relying on
client-side rendering. Once the site is deployed, ownership verification in
Search Console completes against the live pages.

- Accessed and managed from `admin/system-settings?tab=external-systems&sub-tab=security` :

![](https://ngx-ramblers.org.uk/api/aws/s3/site-content/ff4d9a42-2883-427f-927d-197516dae08b.jpeg)