I went through the steps exactly. I did not get a success message but an error message, saying Permission denied. Failed to verify the URL ownership. even though search console had already told me ownership had been verified. Do you know what else I can do?
my website is google news approved before the google spam update it was indexing my new articles within hours but it got affected after the spam update. Will making google indexing API again index my new articles which are struggling to index.??