These are the instructions I am trying to follow:

• Verify your ownership of www.fourpawsdoors.co.uk.
• Upload an HTML file to your site.
• 1. Download this HTML verification file .
  [verify_domain_48fcb28ca8fca0c0aa76979ce94e2841.html]

   
• 2. Upload the file to www.fourpawsdoors.co.uk
• 3. Confirm successful upload by visiting
  www.fourpawsdoors.co.uk/verify_domain_48fcb28ca8fca0c0aa76979ce94e2841.html
  in your browser.

Is this to verify with Google? If that's the case you'll want to use the META tag method instead, since all you need to do with that is paste a META tag into Settings > SEO > Header Code and publish.

I tried doing this under settings like you suggested but it didn't work. Rather, plassing the tag in header code of home page like suggested by google, does. (For anyone trying to verify who found adding it under settings didn't work like in my case)

Hi @anecia! Thanks for letting us know Settings>SEO>Header didn't work for you. Did you receive any specific error on Google's end?

Also, 1) Love your domain name 2) LOVE the Huxley quote on your home page!! and 3) Does Scottsdale count as one of your surrounding areas? 

I've tried the META tag method with no joy ( it worked fine on other weebly sites but not this time ). Like you I've no idea where to put the html file to see if that works.

What site did you add it to, @TCC?

each time I've tried ( changing the domain format sometimes ) I've added the property in google then applied the given code in the header section of the landing page at ochilcreationstrade.weebly.com, then tried the verify button but - no. Now I can't even get past the first stage as I described on my last post. I hope that helps.

Hi Adam, I've just realised the last most recent thing I posted isn't showing which was that I was asked to remove protocol and etc when I entered the domain name without www. as you suggested

Thanks. It looks like you don't have the full META tag in Settings > SEO > Header Code. All I see is the attribute part of the tag. If you copy the full meta tag from Google and use that instead, it should work.

It would be nice to have a step-by-step set of instructions on how to accomplish uploading my own html files instead of tryingg to wrestle your herd of cats interface to accomplish a rudimentary web page.  I see no ACTUAL ANSWERS to the question.

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@TCC wrote:

Hi Adam, I've just realised the last most recent thing I posted isn't showing which was that I was asked to remove protocol and etc when I entered the domain name without www. as you suggested

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It would be nice to have a step-by-step set of instructions on how to accomplish uploading my own html files instead of tryingg to wrestle your herd of cats interface to accomplish a rudimentary web page.  I see no ACTUAL ANSWERS to the question.

I'm dealing with the SAME S*!T  The verification simply isn't happening despite pasting TXT in any of these **bleep** boxes in settings...

Are you trying to verify your site with Google, @seekcompetence?

You are my hero!!

how did you do it? I'm having the same problem. Wanting to verify my account with Google and can't upload an HTML file? ... how did you do it?

I fixed it. Although a different way. Not by uploading HTML file to the website.

I updated the TXT records in DNS at hosting site. It worked.

Hi. Where exactly you pasted the DNS? I am trying to do the same, but I am not succeding. I am going to my domains page, https://www.weebly.com/home/domains, and then adding a DNS record, that has three columns: Type (I tried TXT here), host (not sure what to put here), and points to (I tried the record that googles passes me). What are you putting on each one of them? Thanks a lot for you help!

Welcome to the Community @jp8291!

If you want to verify via DNS you'll need to choose that option at Google and not the HTML file method. Each of the fields will make much more sense. The other method you can do is the meta tag method; you'll copy that and then add it to Settings > SEO > Header Code (if you have the Square editor you go to Website > Integrations and add it there).

I've added it in the embed feature at top of my page and it still fails to verify.  

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