Can We Remove Webmaster Verification Meta Tags from Header and DNS Records

To make any Blog or Website to Rank in Bing or Google search engines, the first step is to submit the blog/website to search consoles. For adding site to Bing, site admin need to submit site through Bing Webmaster and for google submission, Google Search Console

Submitting Blog/Website to search consoles

To add any site to Bing or Google Search Console, need the following

a) Generation XML file for Blog/Website

b) Verifying site with Meta tags or DNS

Verification of site can be done by

Uploading an HTML file to the website
Adding a meta tag to site’s home page, i.e., adding meta tags in the header
Using Google Analytics account
Using Google Tag Manager account
Associating DNS record

For a beginner, the common question will raise after successful verification of the site by adding meta tags in the header PHP file. Can we remove Meta tags from a header after verification?

For many reasons, site admins want to remove meta tags, will that affects anything in website ranking

                <meta name="msvalidate.01" content="1D5D351D92******************" />

Never try to remove meta tags from the header file, if you previously verified your website by adding a file in the header or copy-pasting meta tags in the header

The search engine performs verification every time, approximately 20mins during the session. So removal of verification code from the verified site, thus makes deny access to its tools for that site

Webmaster tools stores verification permissions in cookies, be sure are enabled in your browser

Best Way to Verify Site For Search Console

If you want to remove meta tags in the header, try to verify your site in other methods such as using Google Analytics account or associating DNS record