Norton Safe Web, Unable to make meta tag work to verify site ownership

I have included the meta tag into my home page just as the instructions say and I keep getting the message "Web site ownership verification failed. Copy the auth file to the root directory of your Web site or copy the meta_tag into your Web site`s home page." If I go to my home page of www.ricecookersmarket.com into View > Page Source > I can plainly see the meta tag is there exactly as it's supposed to be, after title and before body.

Can someone give me some insight as to what the problem is please? I would like to get my business site verified.

Hi rv-bob,

Your site ownership has been manually verified and your site 'ricecookersmarket.com' has been submitted for analysis. Note that the initial evaluation process takes about two weeks to complete.

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