What is this META code in the source?

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Hi,

I saw this on various sites in the source code:

Code:
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="wpX93JW748ldk032KA3o92Dlik37Hbt456jH2oI56w" />
What is it?

Some sort of a "verification", but for what exactly?

I don't remember ever using anything like this. I first through of the verification code for Analytics, Webmaster tools, but that was a different file...

What's this for? :confused:
#website design #code #meta #source
  • It is the verification tag for google webmaster tools. It's one of the verification option, the other is to upload an html file, and I think there is another option as well...but I always use the meta-tag option. It's the easiest, since the Yoast SEO plugin I use on inserts it automatically.
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    • I never use the meta tag for google verification, just extra garbage on the pages. The file upload satisfies G and nobody sees any of it.
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