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Thanks jjsbetteroff. I am aware of adding a site to webmaster tools and then adding the verification code to the yoast section under webmaster tools under dashboard, but my question is, do I need to add my blog which is located at website.com/blog to my Google webmasters account first or can I just put the same code on Yoast section that is found under my site’s (website.com) homepage head, which was originally used to verify my main site, which is website.com

My only purpose is that search engines should take note of any changes I make to the blog so that I don’t lose ranking due to any changes that I make to my blog.

I am sorry for not being clear, but what I meant was, the number of URLs indexed by Google (as per data from SEO Quake) increased from 500 to 800 and then they came back down to 500, but this also resulted in the site losing rankings.

Many thanks.

Hi people, I got here searching for sitemaps, but I am not sure if my question perfectly fits this thread. Any advice from you will be greatly appreciated as I have tried looking for this information all over the net already.

I have got a website, let’s say website.com and its blog is on wordpress with the address website.com/blog. I use Yoast for the blog and I have submitted my site’s sitemap to Google webmasters using xml-sitemaps.com. My question is, do I need to verify my blog which is at website.com/blog separately in webmasters tools?

If this is not needed since I have Yoast, how do I check/verify the changes I have made to my blog have been updated to search engines so that if there is a URL change of a particular post or any other significant change to my blog gets notified to search engines?

I am asking this because I noticed my ranking plummeted after I made changes to my blog. I switched to Yoast a couple months back and updated Title and Description of my old blog entries that were lacking focus word, title, and description under Yoast under each entry. After doing this I saw the number of URLs of my site increase from 500 odd to 800 and then after a few days they came back down to 500 odd, but with a drastic change in my SERPs.

Any help will be really kind. Many thanks for taking time out to read this.