For some reason I cannot verify my site within webmaster tools... i've done it many times.. but for some reason this time it just doesn't work.. it gives me: We've detected that your verification file returns a status of 404 (Not found) in the header. I can click on the www.domain.com/google1234567890.html and i can view it... The strange thing is that if i remove the site and add it again and watch my apache log i see: 66.249.71.140 - - [29/May/2009:17:31:00 -0500] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" Then when I hit verify... nothing.. it doesn't show that google is even trying to check for the existence of the verification file... the meta verify is the same... any ideas?
Try with a new account. or wait for few days. I faced similar problem few months back and it took nearly 10 days. May be your server responses very slow.