Show my forum on google and be able to do internal google searches on my forum?

[admin of driving rules ZH]

To my forum came a google search function which unfortunately does not give results when I search.
Only the standard search function on the forum works.
I think the internal google search function (which was included) can not work until it is possible to search for the forum on google.

How do I make my forum visible to google? Have had the forum for more than a month now.

[TonnyKamper]

Maybe these tutorials can help you: 

https://help.forumotion.com/t9488-google-webmaster-tools
https://help.forumotion.com/t23007-optimize-your-forum-referencing-with-google-sitemaps

[admin of driving rules ZH]

Thank you so much for the Tutorials. I'm stuck with Google telling me during the verification:
" Your verification file was not found in the required location".

How do I prove who owns the rights to a forum belonging to forumotion.eu?

[skouliki]

did you add that code to the admin panel - meta tags before clicking the verify option ?

[skouliki]

is this solved?

[admin of driving rules ZH]

not yet.

[skouliki]

Did you do what I suggested above?