The primary reason this project exists is to make the site verification process for search engines and other services as easy as possible for non-technical users. There are two types of verification methods supported: adding meta tags and uploading a specific file.

In the 7.1.2 release, an additional permission is required to upload files.

In the 2.x branches, file uploading has been moved to the site_verify_upload submodule which requires the submodule to be enabled in addition to updating permissions. Most services now allow verification using only metatags, but there exceptions (like reclaiming a Google Analytics account) that can only be accomplished with the file upload method.

The 2.x branches also remove any attempt to list or support specific services (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc). So many services now have copied Google's method of verifying site ownership that it doesn't make sense to try to maintain a list. Users can add any metatag from any service.

While this module overlaps with some functionality from the Metatag project, in many cases users who are allowed to verify sites are not given the permissions required to modify other metatags.

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