Social Media Verification Issues

  • Hi all,

    I’ve been working on developing a blog for a while. I have some basic coding experience, but I definitely wouldn’t call myself anywhere near fluent.

    Right now I’m having some difficulty verifying my website with Pinterest and Google. I initially tried to copy the html file given to me directly into my site’s directory (which I did on Bluehost’s admin management page) but Pinterest still couldn’t verify the site, even after I cleared my browser’s cache.

    I then attempted to use WordPress’s built in verification plugin under the tools section, but this didn’t work either.

    Finally I tried to use Yoast’s verification form but even that didn’t work. Has anyone else ever had difficulty with this, and if so, how did you fix it? Is there a better way to verify sites that doesn’t involve a meta tag?

    The other issue is that when I initially signed up for Bluehost a few months back for a web design class, I registered my primary domain under my own name. So now, my blog websites files are under my original domain’s directory, despite the fact that it has it’s own domain. I don’t know if this will affect the verification process, but if anyone else has more knowledge than me on the subject, I’d love the help!

    My site isn’t officially published to the public yet, so I’m wondering if that might be the issue as well. I also wonder if the verification process takes a while to recognize the newly changed files.

    Thanks for the help!
    Molly

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  • Hi Molly,

    I think you had the right idea at the beginning, html files are the easiest way to get verified in my experience. If you’re verifying your addon domain, however, and not your primary domain you signed up with originally, you’d need to make sure to put the html verification files inside the folder that contains the addon website. For example, if your main website is mollymartin.com, that’d be hosted out of the public_html folder. The addon domain, if it was thesunflowerblog.com, might be hosted out of a folder named thesunflowerblog inside public_html, so public_html/thesunflowerblog/. You’d need to put the verification html files inside that subfolder so that when you visit https://thesunflowerblog.com/hbviwqoinc_validation.html or whatever it ends up being, the page will load properly and google or pintrest will be able to see them as well.

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