Trying to let users add Mastodon verification links, need some help

Sorry but it’s not. Take a look at the link under the Mastodon icon on my profile page here:

If you inspect the element, you’ll see the rel=“me” code, but if you view the page source, or load the page using wget or some tool like that, it’s not there as it’s generated client-side. A crawler won’t see that code.