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My site is no longer verified with Bing. What is going on?

TanjaRita

Published on November 22, 2016

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I just went to do a fetch of a new article with bing and I am being told that my site isn't verified.

This site is 19 months old and has been verified via AIO SEO this whole time. I checked the code in All In One SEO and it is there and correct.

Bing is telling me I have 3 options:

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1. downlaod bingsiteauth.xml and follow the instructions

2. Copay and paste a <meta> tag in my default web page (not sure what that means).

3. Add Cname record to DNS (also unsure of this one, my site is hosted with WA)

Has this happened to anyone else and what did you do?

UPDATE: This may have been a glitch. I copied and pasted the code back into AIO SEO and hit update. Then went back into Bing and clicked on Verify. Now everything is working again.

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