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Ideas-Money-Art last edited by

Hi Fellas,

I wanted to know once you verify the BIng Webmaster tool (via xml file) for a dev site, do you have to do the verification process again for the final site?

I thought I needed to do the verification again but once I added the final website (which have almost a similar URL) into the webmaster tool account, it seemed that I didn't have to verify it. I am a bit confused.

Thank you for clarifying
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Mark_Jay_Apsey_Jr. last edited by

Verify it again. You want to make sure that it is verified and crawled when you go live.
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