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

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**Category:** Product Support\
**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, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-let-users-add-mastodon-verification-links-need-some-help/249231/9 "2022-12-17T22:00:06Z")

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> [@Jagster](#):
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> And it is. When there is empty or nill between opening and closing A-tag it works just fine, doesn’t show to visitors and doesnät need another CSS rule.

Sorry but it’s not. Take a look at the link under the Mastodon icon [on my profile page here](https://blenderartists.org/u/bartv/summary):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/3/5/43580f23af71b5989dbb2338ffe4a61bab2f97b5.png)

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.

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