[Resolved] No Google meta tags in header.php, Help!

[Vyeruska]

Hello, I want to remove the “verification token” from an email account added in my google search site. I checked the header.php in the Theme, but there is no meta tags from google, how can I find it?

Thanks.

[Tom]

Hi there,

How did you add the tag? Maybe using GP Hooks in the wp_head area?

[Vyeruska]

Hi Tom, I’ve never added a meta tag in my site. And I’ve never edited the theme. Google Search Site sending me an email and told me that I added a new owner. But i never did that. Although the other email account added is mine, I don’t want this email appear like an owner.
So in Webmaster Central (from google) said that I can remove it, first unverified that email removing the Meta tag from my site.

[Vyeruska]

Also, there is a plugin from my hosting provider (GoDaddy) that I used long ago to verified my ownership. But I haven’t changed anything from that plugin.

[Tom]

If you never added anything to the theme, then there’s nothing to remove from it.

You may have to check the plugin settings to see if there’s a way you can remove ownership – it must have been done via plugin or a file on your server if you didn’t add anything to the theme.

[Vyeruska]

Hi Tom.
I contacted “Webmaster Central Help Forum” (google), and they told me that I have duplicated 2 codes and theres is the meta tag tha I want to remove. They said that I must go to the html view and remove the duplicate code and the wrong code. But I don’t know how to do it. I checked all the theme editor but I can’t see this codes. Can you help me with this problem?

“From the source code of the home page:”

76: < meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”rJeXQXBV04NTOJM8Eqma5IY4XDd5sYY9Ih0o0NXqvc0″ />

79: < meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”rJeXQXBV04NTOJM8Eqma5IY4XDd5sYY9Ih0o0NXqvc0″ />
< meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”qk9cEbhHPTcDZUpj1hkGWrL2ySgXiUnG-mMd1to-jow” />

Thanks
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Thanks 😀

[Tom]

Hi there,

Did you add any of these codes?

If you’re using GP, did you use GP Hooks to add one to the wp_head hook?

Are you using any plugins that may add the code? WordPress SEO by Yoast etc..?

[Vyeruska]

Oh yes, I used a WP SEO by Yoast, but I deleted after this problem. Accidentally I verified my google account when I was signed in another email. So the process said that the email is not correct or something like that. Then I log out from the incorrect email, and signed on the email linked with my google account. And I never notice a problem. The next day in my email (linked to google services like Adsense) I received a notification of them telling me that a new owner was added to my website.

[Tom]

Hmm, I’m not too sure what’s going on then.

Is there an easy way to force remove verification and then re-add the correct email?

[Vyeruska]

I don’t know any easyway to do that. The incorrect meta tag is on the line #79 of my website, but I can’t see an editor HTML like in other sites, e.g. in Blogger. 🙁

[Tom]

If you didn’t add it to the HTML yourself, then it’s being added by a function.

Try changing themes – is it still there? If so, a plugin is probably adding it.

Try deactivating your plugins one by one until it disappears as well.

[Michaelrobbert]

Nice, this helped me a lot!

[Tom]

Awesome 🙂

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