Google Mobile sites can’t remember your login?

This happened to me recently: Somehow I have to keep logging into my iGoogle mobile site on my Treo 800w. I used all I could: cleared the cached pages and cookies, restarted, switched to both Opera Mobile 10 and Pocket/Mobile Internet Explorer, and all failed :(

I googled this Google login problem to no avail. Unbelievably unlucky I was---Looks like I was the only person having this problem??? (Pssst: or perhaps Google removed these from the search result?)

But anyway, it works fine now, and I'm a happy person again (hyperbolically speaking :D). Read more to see how I solved it.

Beware: Too many invalid cPanel logins can cause you unable to see your site!

"Bro, we have a problem with the webmail," my client called me on one windy afternoon. "Can you help?"

"Sure! What's the problem?" I replied.

Client: "Can't go to the website. Internet Explorer said something wrong with the connection."

Me: "Other websites OK?"

Client: "Yep. Google, eBay, Facebook are all okay. Only 21watches.com webmail has problem."

Hmm.. perhaps the webmail server is having problem, I thought. But to make sure: "So you can still go to 21watches.com?"

Client: "Yep, I can go ther---oh hold on... No man, it's down too looks like. But yesterday was OK though."

Good, so everything on that site was down... except that it's NOT! I was on that website in that very second---using Firefox, in case the problem with my client was due to his IE misbehaving.

Me: "Perhaps your network guy did something bad? Like blocking your site by accident...."

Client: "No, he's on vacation since last week. Yesterday no problem, and nobody else has access to the router. Heck, nobody here even KNOW what is a router."

What a mystery... Anybody care to guess why?

Can't Verify/Link Google Webmaster to Google Analytics: "We weren't able to verify your site"

Last week I set up a blog mirror at Blogger. Since it's free, and it's useful to add more channel/exposure to my site, so why waste it?

Anyway, I added the posts, created the pages, linked it to my Google Analytics account, and everything were checked. Monetization was also set up properly. And lastly: added it to my Google Webmaster Tools and tried to do verification via Analytic. Result? Big red fail:

We weren't able to verify your site:
http://behindthecodes.blogspot.com/

What's going on here??? Apparently lots of people are also in loss.

My Analytics account were good, and I could see the data from this new blogspot site coming in. Also to be able to link to my Analytics, Webmaster said:

You can use this option if your site already has a Google Analytics tracking code that uses the asynchronous snippet. You must be an administrator on the Analytics account.

... and both were fulfilled already. So the problem was neither on the Analytics site nor my blogspot site. Well Google, thanks for your simplistic and unhelpful error message :(

Anyway, the problem turned out to be due to the placement of my Analytics tracking code: I put the code before the closing BODY tag, where Webmaster expected it to be in the HEAD tag. So off I went: edit the HTML code of my blogspot template, move the tracking code to end of HEAD element, and tried verification again. It worked!!!

So as a summary, I just want to give this solution (fix) to the world:

In Google Webmaster, if you want to verify/link your site to your Google Analytics account, make sure you use the asynchronous tracking code (ie. the latest one from Google), and make sure you put it in the HEAD section.

Hope this helps!