What it does

Any account can track any domain. A competitor or an agency can watch your brand, and each account keeps its own history and fix list, so nobody can lock anyone else out. Verification is separate. It proves that your account controls the site. It works the same way as Google Search Console: we give your account its own random token, you publish it somewhere only the site's owner can, and we check for it.

Set it up

Track the domain first. Then go to Settings → Domain ownership and press Verify ownership. You get your own token in two forms. Add one of them:

DNS record (recommended). Add a TXT record to the domain itself (host @) with the value ruleriq-verification=<your token>. It covers the whole domain and survives site redesigns. Changes can take from a few minutes to a few hours to show up, depending on your DNS provider.
Meta tag. Paste <meta name="ruleriq-verification" content="<your token>"> into the <head> of your homepage. This is the easiest option if you edit your site in Webflow, WordPress or Framer and can't reach DNS. The tag must be on the domain itself: if your homepage redirects to a different domain, the check won't count it (a redirect to www. is fine).

We never ask you to add a script to your site.

Test it

Press Check on the same card. We look up the TXT records for your domain, then fetch your homepage once and look for the tag. The card shows which method passed or what we found missing. You can check up to 30 times a day.

Keeping it verified

Keep the record or tag in place. We recheck verified domains once a week. If three weekly checks in a row can't find it, the domain goes back to unverified, so a domain that changes hands doesn't stay verified for its old owner. A single failed recheck (a site outage, a DNS hiccup) changes nothing.

What RulerIQ can and can't access

A DNS lookup of your domain's public TXT records and one request for your public homepage, from the same RulerIQBot with the same SSRF protection as every other fetch. We store your token, the method that passed and when we last checked. Verification gives us no access to your DNS, CMS or site.

Remove it

Delete the TXT record or the meta tag at any time. Closing your RulerIQ account deletes your verification records.