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

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**Created:** [December 17, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-let-users-add-mastodon-verification-links-need-some-help/249231 "2022-12-17T16:59:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![bartv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bartv/32/130052_2.png) [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-let-users-add-mastodon-verification-links-need-some-help/249231/1 "2022-12-17T16:59:15Z")

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Hey, I’m trying to add a Mastodon profile verification link to my user profile pages:

> ### Verification
> 
> You can **verify yourself as the owner of the links in your profile metadata**. For that, the linked website must contain a link back to your Mastodon profile. The link back **must** have a `rel="me"` attribute. The text content of the link does not matter. Here is an example:
> 
> `<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@BartV">Mastodon</a>`

I have forked the [Clickable Social Icon Links on Profile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clickable-social-icon-links-on-profile/158136) TC and it displays the Mastodon link fine on the user profile pages, but since it renders as a handlebars template, it’s not visible in the ‘html/no javascript’ version and the Mastodon crawler won’t see it.

I noticed that the HTML version has the following section:

```plaintext
<div class="user-crawler">
<img src='https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/bartv/45/529382_2.png' alt='bartv' title='bartv' />
<h2 class='username'>bartv</h2>

```

Is there a way to add a line with the required link to this section from a theme component?

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