Verifying site

Like many others , I have spent hours trying to verify ownership of my site.

My web host co. does not allow me to upload into the root folder.

I have placed my html. tag above the <BODY> SECTION.

I have checked for spaces, capitalization etc. 

I am out of ideas.

If anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it more than you know!

This is so important to our customers that we have our "green" check mark by our website name!

www.purseladytoo.com

Thank you in advance

Hello purseladytoo,

 

In checking your home page, I see that the head element is comprised of lines 3 through 54, but I do not see any Norton Safe Web information placed there. I have done a search of your source code, but I cannot find any reference to the authentication file.

 

Can you tell me how you placed the information using your site building program? And, if you could provide the name of the site building program being used, that may help also.

 

Thanks!

In Design Mode, you can right click a category and it will give you the edit style sheet

SO I placed it on line  4 in the header menu and then again in the stylesheet that covers the entire site.

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
%%Panel.HTMLHead%%
<meta name="norton-safeweb-site-verification"
content="sf8-jcakkmwfysv7y-v7qd214fwj3yxqsrqg-ns2l--0bk14ru9expz84lz5z-wi09y9unt12poreqgntmokh77oq4u65epts73z71oeia-2tsd0ngccpuww2e67l8k2"/>

<body>
<div id="Container">
%%Panel.Header%%
<div id="Wrapper">
%%Panel.WrapperBanner%%
<div class="Left" id="LayoutColumn1">
%%Panel.SideCategoryList%%

 

 

I moved the content back up to behind the verification" to keep it all on 1 line.

Does the meta tag look correct?

Sorry, It is on line 4 of  lines 1-54 on the home page.

The site builder program is the BigCommerce site builder that they use.

I hope this helps.

I really appreciate any information that I receive.

 

see below:

 

 

:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
%%Panel.HTMLHead%%
<meta name="norton-safeweb-site-verification" content="sf8-jcakkmwfysv7y-v7qd214fwj3yxqsrqg-ns2l--0bk14ru9expz84lz5z-wi09y9unt12poreqgntmokh77oq4u65epts73z71oeia-2tsd0ngccpuww2e67l8k2"/>
<body>
<div id="Container">
%%Panel.Header%%
<div id="Wrapper">
%%Panel.WrapperBanner%%
<div class="Left" id="LayoutColumn1">
%%Panel.SideCategoryList%%

 

 

IS THIS CORRECT?

Okay. What your program is allowing you to do is edit a CSS style sheet. That is why the meta tag is not showing on your page. The CSS determines the style of various properties on your website.

 

An alternate method to verify ownership is to add the Norton Safe Web authentication code to your keywords tag which I see you have in place.

 

Use your site building program to edit your keywords. Copy and paste the authentication code from your email registration, (the 128 character alphanumeric code) into your keywords tag on your main page. Be sure it is separated from the other entries with a comma. It should look like this when completed:

....Lilly Pulitzer, FREE SHIPPING on all items!, sf8-jcakkmwfysv7y...(your unique 128 character code)

 

Although this method will not allow for the automated verification, it should assist the Safe Web team in manually verifying your site.

 

Let me know when you have completed this step and I will check that the code is properly located.

 

 

I did exactly as you stated.

Yes if you could please check this for me.

Perfect!

 

The authentication code in your keywords meta tag is properly placed and I shall notify the Safe Web team who will manually verify site ownership. Allow them a day or two to respond back to you in this thread.

 

Once ownership has been verified, your site will be queued for the rating evaluation.

 

Be sure the code remains in place until ownership is verified. Leaving the code in the meta tag will not affect your site or the visitor's experience.

 

Best wishes for your website!

Thank You SO much! I feel like I made progress today towards making our customers feel a little safer when our website comes up in searches!

Again, Thank  you for your time and effort, I could not have even begun to do this without you!

I greatly appreciate it!

Keep your fingers crossed!

 

 

 

It was my pleasure.

 

But you must give yourself credit for placing the code properly in the keywords tag on the first shot. Great work!

 

 

 

Hi purseladytoo,


Thanks for adding the auth code in a meta tag on your site. We have verified owership of your site 'purseladytoo.com' based on the auth file.


We have queued this site for analysis, soon new rating will be reflected in safeweb.norton.com


Rajesh

Hello purseladytoo,

 

Congratulations! I see that your site has been rated Safe and now carries the green check mark.

 

 

All of the Credit to you!  We cannot say " thank you enough"!  We are so pleased!

Thank you again and again, we owe it all to you!

Having a job that can enhance other peoples careers and relieve their stress must be very rewarding!

 

Thank you