Mastodon does not operate a 'verified' account scheme like some of the commercial social services. However, there is the ability for you to link a website you own/operate to your Mastodon account. Visitors to either your website, or your profile, can see the two are linked. This is especially useful for people in the public-eye as a way to prove that their Mastodon account is genuine. That said, anyone can link their account to their own website to prove ownership.

You will need to have a basic understanding of HTML web-page coding to achieve this. Or ask someone to help.

Let's assume your Mastodon account is @joe@mastodon.zone. Your profile web address is therefore https://mastodon.zone/@joe

Go to your website and edit a page to include a link back to your Mastodon account. This link can be on text, or graphics. The important element is that it is a link. We will keep it simple for now. On the website let's have it say "Find me on the Fediverse: @joe@mastodon.zone".

The code:

Find me on the Fediverse: <a href="https://mastodon.zone/@joe" rel="me">@joe@mastdon.zone</a>

Info The important part is the rel=“me”

Once saved, and live on your website, go back into your profile on Mastodon and Edit it. (Edit Profile, top left under your Profile Image).

Scroll down; look for “Profile Metadata”

Now enter a description for your website and a link to the web page you edited.

In the above example, we have set the description to My Website and the web address to https://mywebsite.com

Now click Save Changes, just below.

If you have done everything correctly, when someone views your profile it will look something like this:

The green tick is attesting to the viewer that the website and this profile are linked.

Note If it doesn't show, Refresh your browser page.