Google Verification Process Changes Ever So Slightly
Recently a website I maintain was no longer verified by Google Webmaster tools. Odd, since it had been working for some time using the HTML method.
I downloaded the HTML file from Goole Webmaster, and uploaded it once again to the site. I noticed that the previous version was zero length file, and the new file from Google has some text in it (a google-site-verification property). I don’t remember this from before, but either way, it works now.
We have to all remember that these Google tools are free, and they will change them whenever they want. There was a helpful post from Google’s Webmaster Blog about changes around October 1, 2009.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/changes-to-website-verification-in.html
Not exactly my issue, but close enough to it.
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