How to add the HTML tag to your Wordpress site's homepage for ownership verification

Below are steps you should take for adding meta tag to a homepage of your Wordpress site to verify its ownership:

Note: the following steps are to verify your wordpress site for performing a crawl for it using Ahrefs Site Audit tool only! 

1. Go to your Wordpress site's admin page
2. Go to Plugins and add the Meta Tag Manager plugin
3. After adding the plugin, go to Pages -> Home page and click Edit

4.  In Site Audit, copy the HTML tag in the Project's Settings -> Ownership verification menu under HTML tag and paste it in the Meta Tag Manager in Wordpress

e.g.

<meta name="ahrefs-site-verification" content="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx">

5. Click Update in Wordpress admin

6. Click Check Status in Ownership verification menu of Site Audit tool. Verification status should change to "Verified"

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