Facebook & Instagram Site Verification

How to Verify your Store for Facebook & Instagram

To verify your store for Facebook & Instagram:

  1. Log into your Freewebstore Control Panel.

  2. Go to Marketing > Site Verification.

  3. Expand the Facebook & Instagram tab.

  4. If you do not already have a verification code, you can retrieve your code from the Facebook Business Manager, or by following the Facebook Business Manager link.

  5. Once you have your code, enter the content part of the verification code that Facebook has provided you with.

  6. Click Save.

  7. Once you have entered your code into the 'content' field, go back to your Business manager screen and click 'Verify Domain'.

How do I obtain the site verification code for Facebook & Instagram?

To obtain the code needed for your control panel:

  1. Go to your Facebook Business Manager account.

  2. Go to Domains in the Brand Safety section of Business settings.

  3. Click Add to add a new domain.

  4. Enter your domain without any prefixes: eg. Enter 'mywebsite.com' and NOT 'www.mywebsite.com'.

  5. Click Add when you are happy.

  6. You will then need to select the HTML Source Code option from the choices you are presented with.

  7. You will then be shown the verification code on the screen between <meta> tags. Simply copy all the code between the speech marks after 'content='. You will then have the code needed to enter for your control panel.

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