Sitemaps Forces Verification
Posted by jonathan at 9:44am EST on 08/07/2006
Google Sitemaps is slowly going to making the rounds to all sites listed in Sitemaps and making sure they are still verified.
Very soon, we’ll be doing one of our periodic checks of verified sites. As our documentation notes, we do this to make sure that the verification HTML file or meta tag still exists. If we don’t find the file or tag during this check, the account will no longer show that site as verified, and you’ll no longer have access to diagnostics and statistics. If you find that a site that previously verified no longer is, simply click the “Verify” link on the My Sites page and upload the file or meta tag again.
In case maybe a site changed owners or it’s under different management now. I thought before that I could remove the file after having the sitemap listed, but I am mistaken on that point. I’ve since kept all my sitemap verification files in the root directory of all my sites just to make sure it stays verified.
