Re: How many days it takes for the site verification?

Hi,

I believe I've done all the things recommended and I'm still going
from pending verification back to verify - see below:

On 1/18/06, Google Employee <google+sitemaps@google.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Pullak,
>
> You might check my reply in a previous thread here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-sitemaps/browse_thread/thread/bb4318feadf94822/8e661347f9237417?q=google%2Bsitemaps%40google.com&rnum=2#8e661347f9237417
>
> If your verification status changes from pending to verify, then it is
> likely that we couldn't successfully process the verification.
>
> There are a number of things you can check. For instance:
>
> -that your verification file exists in the correct location and is
> named correctly

It does. As soon as I click on verify I see the following in my log:

66.249.72.70 - - [18/Jan/2006:17:29:54 +0000] "HEAD
/google086e4a9268fd579a.html HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0
(compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google .com/bot.html)"

> -that your webserver is up and responding to requests when we attempt
> the verification

It has not been down in 154 days and the above entry from the log
shows it was up when google first checked.

> -that your robots.txt file doesn't block our access to the file

It doesn't:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin

> -that your server doesn't return a status of 200 in the header of 404
> pages

It doesn't:

wget -S --proxy=off 'http://www.easysoft.com/doesnotexist'
--17:40:32-- http://www.easysoft.com/doesnotexist
=> `doesnotexist'
Resolving www.easysoft.com... n.n.n.n
Connecting to www.easysoft.com[n.n.n.n]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
1 HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
2 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:42:15 GMT
3 Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7d mod_perl/1.999.21
Perl/v5.8.6
4 Connection: close
5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
17:40:33 ERROR 404: Not Found.

> Once you've checked these things and made any needed changes, click
> Verify again. Let us know if you continue to have trouble.

I have clicked again (in fact I've done it at least 3 times over the
last week or so)
but no progress. The annoying thing is that I was verified initially but then
went unverified and can't get back. I tried contacting google but was told
"we're not able to provide individual support for Google Sitemaps" and
to see this group.

Can anyone shed any light on this at all?

Martin
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Martin J. Evans
Wetherby, UK