Google is emailing users to verify their sites in Google Search Console. The issue is that this is going to people who do not have any way of verifying those sites because they are not the site owner.
Google began sending out these marketing emails a couple of weeks ago. Those were sent out accurately. But this new batch of emails asking folks to verify their sites in Search Console seem to be a mistake.
Marie Haynes said on Twitter “I don’t even recognize this site!” She added “now I see that they’ve missed the first 3 letters of the domain name as well.” Barry Adams said on Twitter “Got three such GSC emails for domain names where the first letter of the domain is missing. Definitely a bug.”
Here are some tweets about this bug:
OH, this makes sense now. I was like, “I don’t even recognize this site!” But now I see that they’ve missed the first 3 letters of the domain name as well.
— Marie Haynes (@Marie_Haynes) January 27, 2021
LOL! pic.twitter.com/asL10MSw6Y
— Marie Haynes (@Marie_Haynes) January 27, 2021
They seem to be missing the first character of the domain names. At least, that’s what I noticed
— Roald Craenen (@Roaldcraenen) January 27, 2021
Getting a few weird ones like these:
e.[domain].com
wn.[domain].comNone of which are in Google’s index of course… ah, #SEO https://t.co/uwQNeXOhQw
— Micah Fisher-Kirshner (@micahfk) January 27, 2021
I assume no real harm is done because it is not like they can verify the site in Search Console. But this is just a…
