Webmaster Tools is asking me verify my sitemaps, they were fine a couple of hours ago. When I click to re-verify I get a message saying "not able to verify due to server timeout" Yet our site is up and fine, and the meta tag verification code is fine. Anyone else seeing this?
yeah. The webmaster tools are playing up at the moment... dont be alarmed by it Check your Links menu items and the links may be missing to your site (backlinks!)...mine are and a lot of other peoples...
Yes I faced the same problem a few weeks ago with a client's site. I had been experimenting with some cloaking and thought and still think that was the reason. I changed the verification mode from tag to pagename containing the verification code and the problem was solved in seconds.
Thats for the feedback guys, I just tried to re-verify again and it worked first time. Must have been a glitch at Googles end for sure. Just noticed they give me sitelinks too - groovy
Its great that they have given you sitelinks. Congratulations on that - should drive some more traffic to your site.
If you don't mind, what is the URL? I'd like to do a little research, you can PM me if you want to keep it private.