Reno - 7:28 pm on May 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

i had to upload a new meta tag

I've had to do this a number of times with various sites since starting with GWT, though it's not been necessary for quite some time, so I think we can say with complete certainty that it has zero effect on the up & down stats you are seeing. That's purely Caffeine, not verification related.

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