I have done verification for my site in Google sitemaps but Google is not able to verify my site why? what is the reason? And also I have done it via two methods but the sitemaps verification is notn happening ?
When did you update the sitemap recently? It may take at atleast 3-7 days for these people. (That was my case with them)
Its really not that hard.. the easiest way is to verify by creating the blank html document... Just make sure its in the highest directory you have access to (normally public_html) If you could elaborate a little more on what kind of problems your having i might be able to help a little more. But all i can tell you is if your verifying by the html document, Make sure that it is in the highest directory you have access to and make sure you can access it by www.yourdomain.com/google***********.html
Yes I ahve done it the google page opens in the browser but google is not being able to access the page!
Hrmm.. Odd, Very odd, are you sure theres not something blocking google from verifying it? Im not really good with robots.txt but could there be something in yours that restricting google? Just a thought...
it happened to me too, all my sitemaps became univerified with no change to the verification page that i put up. on 2 sites! Pierce
I can confirm that there is something wrong with Google Sitemaps (or Webmastertools). Two of my sites were verified for almost a year now and showed all the information it was suppossed to. Today when I logged in it showed that none of the sites were verified. I checked everything and the verification files are still available and accessible on both sites. This must be something wrong at Google's end.
I experienced the same situation the crusader told us about today, the verification request replied " Our system has experienced a temporary problem", clicking the link they said " The system is currently busy. We will process this verification as soon as possible. Please check back later for an updated status". No wonder, Google is used by the whole globe!
It does happens from time to time. If you got an error message when trying to re-verify your site, just wait. After sometimes sites status are back to normal. Right now, my sites which have been "de-verified" 2 days ago are verified again without doing anything...
I had a problem verifying my site in the past and found it was caused by these reasons: 1) something in my HTACCESS was messing it up. I had to temporarily remove HTACCESS completely before they could verify it. It wasn't because they could not reach the site, but when they do the "no-exist" verification, they were getting the wrong error message. If i knew anything about HTACCESS i probably could have fixed it without totally removing it. 2) I found that my "bad behavior" module was blocking Google from doing the verification. Bad Behavior is a spam-bot-killing module. So if you use it, or anything similar you might want to try disabling it temporarily 3) "System is currently busy" - been seeing that the last few weeks, but everything seems to be working .
My site isn't showing up verified (it's been verified since October) AND it's showing up as not being listed by Google when it's on page one currently for it's keywords. So obviously something's up with Sitemaps...
For the original topic, yes it is definitely a htaccess problem. check the http header of a non existing page, if it returns 200 OK instead of 404 then google won't be able to perform the verification. In that case just temporarily rename htaccess to .htaccess1 but It is better to fix the problem in the first place.