Cannot verify Google Search Console with GTM using GoogleTagManager

Our Digital Strategy team is trying to verify a domain using the Google Tag Manager and it is failing because "The Google Tag Manager snippet on your site is in the wrong location." We are using the 8.x-1.0 version of GoogleTagManager and I have confirmed that Google Tags are firing correctly.

This forum post indicates that "The container snippet needs to be placed immediately after the opening body tag otherwise verification will fail."

Based on this article: https://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2016/11/22/google-tag-manager-snippet-p..., it appears this module is placing GTM code correctly.

So, this isn't necessarily an issue with this module. I am wondering if there is an implementation issue (minor one) that could be causing verification to work for Google Search Console.

Technical Documentation

Screenshot showing verification screen (Google Search Console)

Steps to reproduce

• Setup GTM module with a valid Container ID
• Clear caches
• Try to verify the site for Google Search Console using the Google Tag Manager method - See Google Tag Manager container snippet at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35179?hl=en

Links

• https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/Z7QR716p44A
• https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35179?hl=en