: Google webmaster tools:We were unable to connect to your server. (site verification) I have a shared webhotel that has three domains. Only one of them can be verified through webmaster tools.

@LarsenBagley505

Always make sure your website has web pages that return the HTTP status 200 code (which means the result is an actual page).

What I do for site verification with google webmaster tools is follow it's recommended method:



Download this HTML verification file. [google2da9166c91fd3e7e.html]
Upload the file to example.com/ Confirm successful upload by visiting example.com/google2da9166c91fd3e7e.html in your browser.
Click Verify below.


To stay verified, don't remove the HTML file, even after verification succeeds.


To complete step #2 , you need to download the file presented to you which in this example is google2da9166c91fd3e7e.html, then upload the file to your document root folder on the server and change the permissions on the file so that the world has at least read access to it.

To complete step #3 , visit the URL shown and you'll see text similar to the following in your web browser:

google-site-verification: google2da9166c91fd3e7e.html

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@Bryan171

Okay, now I think that this problem is solved.

Site is in maintenance mode and returns 503 of which google of course thinks that is not worth verifying.

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