Google Search Console - Site not verified anymore

[Rain-shine]

Hi there,

I am hoping someone can advise please.

I have challenges with Google search console and feel like i have been going around in circles!

I verfiied my site some time ago, submitted my sitemap and was getting keyword data. Then a few months ago it seemed to not be reporting any keyword data and didnt recognise the sitemap anymore. I resubmitted it and everything seemed fine however i never received keyword data.

Now i try to login and it tells me that i need to verify my site.

It seems to have reverted completely back to the start.

Has anyone else experienced this? Can anyone tell me why this would be happening and more importantly what i can do to fix it? I dont want to verify it again only for this to happen again in the near future - I would rather deal with issues now.

Many thanks in advance for your time.

Laura

 

[makeusvisible]

I've never seen this happen.

A few possible reasons;

Could someone else have claimed the site (i.e someone with access to the website's back end or FTP access)?

Have you changed the site url? for example by implementing an SSL?

Is the site registered with Google Analytics under the same Google account as Search Console.....if so are there any issues with Analytics?

 

[fisicx]

Now i try to login and it tells me that i need to verify my site.

Have you uploaded the verification code to your website?

 

[Raw Rob]

I dont want to verify it again only for this to happen again in the near future

Verification is ongoing - usually you upload a file to your server, but you must leave this file on the server, if it has been deleted by mistake then you are no longer verified and you need to do it again.

 

[aflat9]

Has the URL changed at all?

 

[Rain-shine]

Thank you all for your thoughts/comments. Interestingly we did have challenges with SSL certification but this was a few months ago. Do you think this would still be having an impact? Would reverfying the site fix this or would we need to do something more? I just dont want this happening again. Kind regards Laura

 

[Raw Rob]

Google treats http and https as different sites, so if you only verified the http version, you will now have to verify the https version.

 

[unicopp]

• Have you moved your site to https from http?
• Have you added noindex tag to your site?
• Have you disallowed google bot. Check robots.txt file.

If you moved your site to https, verify with https. If you added any noindex tag, remove it. If you disallowed google bot, allow it to crawl your site.

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

Have you had a new website created and the website developer has accidentally / inadvertently deleted the verification file or meta data?