I am struggling to Verify my site with Google,
I am getting this error:-
We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header.
and so they will not verify my site,
How do I verify my site by adding a meta tag to my site's home page?
Once you access the Verify page for the site:
1. Choose the add a meta tag option.
2. Copy and paste the meta tag supplied into the HEAD section of your site's home page.
3. Click the "Verify" button. We will verify that the meta tag exists in the correct location. If it does, we'll show a status of VERIFIED and provide a link to your site statistics. You can view your statistics at any time after your site is verified by clicking the site link on the My Sites pagecan anyone advise me how I can add the Meta tag code the header in the index.html ? Home page !PHP Code:<META name="verify-v1" content="googlexxxxxxxxxx.html ">. The meta tag we found was <META name="verify-v1" content="Incorrect_string">.
Thanks
Andrew
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7 Feb 2007, 07:01 PM #1
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7 Feb 2007, 10:08 PM #2
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Try putting the code into the file includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/meta_tags.php
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7 Feb 2007, 10:31 PM #3
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Thanks that worked a treat
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18 Feb 2007, 05:10 AM #4
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Re: Google - Verify site ownership
I have the same problem. I did the .html file choice reccommended at Google and put it in my domains root. Plus set up in admin the page_not_found and added the code recommended in the extras folder for .htaccess (I put in root where other redirects are)
Tests I made show the missing pages work perfect but when Google later rechecks they unverified the site.Code:ErrorDocument 404 http://www.MYSITE.COM/catalog/index.php?main_page=page_not_found
I remove the code from .htaccess and Google then will verify ok but the page not found no longer is seen.We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header.
So is the page_not_found always giving out 200(Success) responses?Justwade
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18 Feb 2007, 09:16 PM #5
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Re: Google - Verify site ownership
Did you try this? It worked for me!Try putting the code into the file includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/meta_tags.php
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18 Feb 2007, 11:36 PM #6
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Re: Google - Verify site ownership
I haven't tried it yet, but will. I am just trying to learn about this.
I was trying to understand if my page_not_found is giving the proper 404 errors when hit. That is what I thought should happen, and I wonder if this meta tag would only please Google, but still give a 200 (success) response.
Do you know if your Google solution is still responding with the 404 errors for a page_not_found?
And did you put the recommended extra code in .htaccess?Justwade
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19 Feb 2007, 10:15 AM #7
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Re: Google - Verify site ownership
As soon as I placed the code in the meta tag file google verified my pages and did not come up with any errors, I didnot add any code to my .htaccess. I have now removed the code, but you may from time to time insert it again to re add the code again to verify if google request it.
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3 May 2007, 11:48 AM #8
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Re: Google - Verify site ownership
Other option to do this is to Open the file: includes/temlates/your_template/common/html_header.php
and add the Google verify code under the <HEAD> tag.
See for more details.:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...light=add+meta
It worked for me.
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Re: Google - Verify site ownership
Just a question about adding to meta_tags.php.Try putting the code into the file includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/meta_tags.php
do you just add this line or do you duplicate a meta_tags.php file then add the line ?
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6 Aug 2007, 05:43 AM #10
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Re: Google - Verify site ownership
If you're trying to resolve the page-not-found getting a 200 response instead of 404, then follow these instructions:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...275#post371521.
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