Google Site Verification Tag shown twice on the home page How do I fix?

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I am trying to get a site verified for Google Merchant Centre. To verify the website I had to add the Google verification tag to the of the page. I did this and the domain was verified. I’ve since noticed there is another tag further down the page but I can’t figure out how to remove it or if it should be there?

When I go to the theme and select “edit code” there is only the 1 google-site-verification tag that I put in.

When I go to the home page on the website, right click and select “view page source”, it has the tag I put at the top:

html tags removed because it wouldn’t let me post with them.

meta name=“google-site-verification” content=“xxxxxxx”

Then further down the page it has:

!-- BEGIN: GSF App Core Tags & Scripts by Simprosys Google Shopping Feed –

!-- BEGIN app snippet: gsf_verification_code –

meta name=“google-site-verification” content=“yyyyyy”

The 2 tags don’t match and I think this is going to cause me an issue with Google. Looking at the code it would seem the app, Simprosys, has injected the tag into the page but I can’t find anywhere in the app where it would be defined.

There are also no 3rd party apps installed that would add the tag.

How do I go about removing this tag? I can’t seem to edit this part of the code to delete it.

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There is no issue having 3 tags. As long as 1 is valid.

For example you might have verified Google Search Console with 1 tag, which will be different for GMC. This can happen if you are using different email addresses.

You can remove them if you want, but things might start to break. So if you want to remove the simprosys code, you need to contact symprosis or delete the app. But only delete it, if you are not using the app.