You no longer need Yahoo verification. It just points you at Bing to do it.
Google is now much easier. Just get a Google Analytics id and that is good enough.

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jlittlewood’s picture

No everyone has the new async Google Analytics snippet.

mgifford’s picture

Still would be good to nix the Yahoo pages.

Thib’s picture

Issue summary: View changes

Google encourages use verification through DNS (no longer possible to do with html file) and it is also possible to do for Bing

mgifford’s picture

Status: Active » Needs review
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This should get rid of yahoo..

Not sure what is needed for google, but it seems to work as is no matter how easy it is via other means.

EDIT: Must remember to remove it project page https://www.drupal.org/project/site_verify too

DamienMcKenna’s picture

Does anyone have a link to an article that confirms the y_key meta tag was dropped by Yahoo?

deekayen’s picture

@DamienMcKenna

https://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html - points to Bing.

https://s.yimg.com/zz/pv/static/misc/index.html is a more announcement-type page.

Chris Matthews’s picture

Version: 7.x-1.0-rc2 » 7.x-1.x-dev
Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

The 3 year old patch in #4 to site_verify.install and site_verify.module applied cleanly to the latest 7.x-1.x-dev and definitely makes sense to nix Yahoo.

Checking patch site_verify.install...
Checking patch site_verify.module...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 143 (offset 28 lines).
Applied patch site_verify.install cleanly.
Applied patch site_verify.module cleanly.