====== Homepage Verification ======

If you want to verify that the website you put into the //Homepage// field of your Friendica profile really belongs to you, you can do so using the [[https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me|rel-me microformat]]. Which basically is a machine read-able link to an URL in the internet that //is also me//. When to of these locations on the web that claim to belong to the same person link back to each other, it can be seen as an indicator that this person has control over these two places, thus making the claim more believe-able.

  * Works with Friendica version **2022.12** and later.

===== Step 1: Put a link to your Friendica profile on the Homepage =====

Say your Friendica nickname is ''happy'' and you created your account on the server ''friendica.example.com'' then your profile URL page is ''https://friendica.example.com/profile/happy''. For this URL you need to add a link from your homepage by adding some HTML code((the exact method depends on the CMS you are using for your homepage. Some services also add a rel-me link to whatever you add into the homepage fields)).

<code><a href="https://friendica.example.com/profile/happy" rel="me">This is my Friendica profile</a></code>

Once this is done, proceed to Step 2.

===== Step 2: Enter the Homepage URL into your profile =====

Edit your profile and add a link to the webpage where you just entered the rel-me link to your Friendica profile into the //Homepage// field of your profile. Then save the changes to your profile.

Friendica will now try to find the rel-me link on your homepage. If it does, it will automatically show a //verification notice// for your homepage link in the profile.  If you have already added the link to the homepage field before performing Step 1 above, don't worry! Friendica will repeat the check for the rel-me link once a day to detect changes in the verification chain and change the display accordingly.