Add support for webmaster tools verification

[alanorth]

Search bots like Google, Bing, Yandex, etc often utilize named HTML <meta> tags as a method of verifying ownership of a site for addition to their bot's webmaster tools. Obviously you can only add an manage sites you have proven you have administrative control over, as the webmaster tools portal allows you to control crawl rate, remove URLs from the index, submit sitemaps, etc.

For example, my personal blog advertises the following meta tags:

<meta name="msvalidate.01" content="2CA373095D945D1AA256B1CD8A3DF872" />
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="WBiaMTuwgqrrvY4EuVm3PMcmPcpV9CFI-iqkzcVs8z0" />
<meta name="yandex-verification" content="4e0c2c3f29b52afa" />

It would be nice if our Pelican theme could do this as well. At the very minimum we could set variables in the pelicanconf and just interpolate them in the base template. For extra points it could be a Pelican plugin (and you could submit it upstream!).

[jasonrogena]

Is there any added benefit if the tags are advertised by all the blog's pages. Your blog does this in the home page

[alanorth]

Well spotted, @jasonrogena! Yeah, it only needs to be on the home page. I see that now, for example on this page on my blog these tags aren't present:

https://alaninkenya.org/2015/02/16/intelligent-city-africa

[rwanyoike]

Is this still an issue?

[alanorth]

Still an issue. Did you code them into the new Alchemy theme?