Help with google verification

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    thewhitelilyblog · Member ·

    Vivian, I did this, and it worked! So I guess now I’ll be regularly verified by google without having to do anything more. Yea! Not that I have a clue what it means….

    I wonder if Caroline got verified. Caroline, report back, did you make it work, or not?

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    carolinegriffin · Member ·

    Unfortunately not! My problem doesn’t seem to be to do with posting up the verification code, but something to do with this message –

    “We’ve detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header.”

    I’m still hoping to find an answer – so any thoughts are welcome!

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    orensbruli · Member ·

    I’m in the same situation. Any help?

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    orensbruli · Member ·

    Ok, caroline, please… recheck the url you enter in the google webmasterl tools, please.
    My problem was:
    My url was is orensbruli.wordpress.com but in google I had entered orensbuli.wordpress.com.
    I hope this help to you (notify me, please).

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    carolinegriffin · Member ·

    I had a few days off from trying because i was so frustrated, but now I’m having another go. I’m going to leave the post up for a couple of days and see if that helps.

    C

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    famoustm · Member ·

    I got the same error caroline and my 404 page does not work it just sends me back to my home page, any help?

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    famoustm · Member ·

    I found this Caroline:

    Your site doesn’t return a 4xx HTML status code for non-existing URLs

    If you’re using HTML verification, it’s important that a non-existing URL returns a 4xx status code. We can’t verify sites configured to return other status codes (such as 2xx or 5xx) for non-existing URLs, because this would enable anyone to verify ownership of your site. You can try our meta tag verification method or change your server’s configuration.

    This configuration presents a security risk for site verification and therefore, we can’t verify your site. If your web server is configured to return a status of 200 (found) in the header of 404 (not found) pages, and we enabled you to verify your site with this configuration, others would be able to take advantage of this and verify your site as well. To ensure that no one can take advantage of this configuration to view statistics to sites they don’t own, we only verify sites that return a status of 404 in the header of 404 pages.

    If your server is configured to return something other than a 404 for non-existent pages, try our meta tag verification method or change your server’s configuration.

    You can change your web server configuration to return a status of 404 in the header of 404 pages and still provide a custom error page (see Apache information and IIS information). Once your web server is configured correctly, try to verify the site again and we’ll recheck your configuration.

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    carolinegriffin · Member ·

    Thanks for this. It’s really helpful. I got a message from WordPress support saying there is nothing that can be done in this circumstance. I don’t think wordpress lets you change metatags so I can’t verify in that way. I’ll have a look at the apache and IIS routes.

    thanks again, I really appreciate your help

    caroline

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    mikesuhr · Member ·

    I had same problem as Caroline and I removed the page as private . .verified. . then made private

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