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Can I verify myself on Mastodon using a Google Site with a custom domain?
I maintain a personal website, created through Google Sites, which is primarily used to host samples of my writing. The site has a custom domain.
Aside from just having a writing archive, though, I also have links to profiles of mine from across the web - including to my profile on Mastodon. Now, given that Mastodon's verification system requires having a personal domain that you can link to your profile from, I figured that I could just easily verify myself (because why not).
Mastodon requires that somewhere on your website, you need to embed a link to your profile with rel="me". Now, by default, Google Sites turns links into a Google redirect (i.e. it doesn't link directly to the target page, but links to google.com/url?=linkwithatracker instead. If you embed a link within HTML, though, it does link directly to the page that you want.
So I embedded a link to my Mastodon profile through the HTML, using the format of <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@superplane39">. Unfortunately... that didn't work.
I tried both with linking an image and just with text, neither of which was successful. My suspicion is that Google Sites is simply stripping the rel="me" from the link despite having a custom domain.
Is there any way I can verify myself on Mastodon via a Google Site with a custom domain, or am I stuck unverified until/unless I swap to a different method of building the site?
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