cornwallseoagency.co.uk

Zero-Width Spaces corrupt Google verification — at an SEO agency

$ dig TXT cornwallseoagency.co.uk

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;cornwallseoagency.co.uk. IN TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:

cornwallseoagency.co.uk. 3600 IN TXT "google-site-verification=RXuNpZ5p2aOGFbFCqmrNrDKOhU0Jku0q_xyz..."

What Happened

Zero-Width Space characters (UTF-8 bytes `\226\128\139`) are hidden inside the Google site verification token, causing it to silently fail. The delicious irony: this is a professional SEO agency whose website cannot pass Google's own domain verification. Their Google Search Console has presumably been inaccessible for years.

Full TXT Record Value

google-site-verification=RXuNpZ5p2aOGFbFCqmrNrDKOhU0Jku0q_xyz...