Error 403 Permission denied. Failed to verify the URL ownership.

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins and if possible to share some access to the gmail account that you are using to set this up in the designated Sensitive Data section and remove 2FA verification methods so that we can try to help further?

It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

We really look forward to helping you.

Hi,

Did you follow the solution listed here already?
https://rankmath.com/blog/google-indexing-api/#4-2-403-permission-denied-failed-to-verify-the-url-ownership

You have to follow the guide to the dot because it has been tried and tested. If it isn’t working for you, that means some setting has been left unchanged.

Hope that helps.

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

Please try and let us know how it goes.

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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