Thanks for the response.
The google page looked like this:
Verify your ownership of https://www.techsupportrecordings.com/. Learn more.
Recommended method
Alternate methods
Recommended: HTML file upload
Upload an HTML file to your site.
1. Download this HTML verification file. [googleeb48a48e812f03bd.html]
2. Upload the file to https://www.techsupportrecordings.com/
3. Confirm successful upload by visiting https://www.techsupportrecordings.com/googleeb48a48e812f03bd.html in your browser.
4. Click Verify below.
To stay verified, don’t remove the HTML file, even after verification succeeds.
VERIFY Not now
When I clicked on the link it autodownloaded an html file that when opened looks like this:
google-site-verification: googleeb48a48e812f03bd.html
with nothing else on the page. Do I need to modify it to look like your example above?