Title: google site verification Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # google site verification * Resolved [John Ashton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john-ashtone/) * (@john-ashtone) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-site-verification/) * Where do I place the Meta tag for Site verification, I have gone to Editor and looked in ‘main index template’ (index.php) and Header (header.php) actually I have systematically gone through all files, and cannot find location of or The Meta tag needs to be below and before * Won’t bore you with all other ways have tried. Many thanks in advance super theme, no other problems whatsoever. John Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [dotcompals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dotcompals/) * (@dotcompals) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-site-verification/#post-4777668) * Hi, I’m also looking for the same. * John, try verifying using yoast seo plugin . * Thread Starter [John Ashton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john-ashtone/) * (@john-ashtone) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-site-verification/#post-4777684) * Dotcompals have been in touch and suggested Yoast plugin which has worked a treat. * So many thanks to them whoever they are, it was a no reply Email. * I had tried so many ways, not helped by the fact my Webhost uses a proxy so I couldn’t verify by that means either, and the HTML code was not working either. * Yoast looks very good and has some really helpful help hints along the way. Again thanks to Dotcompals and to Yoast plugin. Johnnie. * [dt125x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dt125x/) * (@dt125x) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-site-verification/#post-4777696) * Please John Ashtone, copy your htaccess code here… I messed up my code so I need default… You can find it under yoast SEO => edit * Thanks * Thread Starter [John Ashton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john-ashtone/) * (@john-ashtone) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-site-verification/#post-4777756) * Hi dt125x, sorry I was straight out this morning, so I have only just found your post. * This link should tell all. * [https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess](https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘google site verification’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/customizr/4.4.24/screenshot.png) * Customizr * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/customizr/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/customizr/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/customizr/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/customizr/reviews/) ## Tags * [google site verification](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/google-site-verification/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [John Ashton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john-ashtone/) * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-site-verification/#post-4777756) * Status: resolved