I had the same problem. Technically, you do not need to verify your website in the app as your website should be up and running without it. The issue I ran into involved updating the site. You r not able to add your own free images and if you do the web page will not save. It appears you have to use the AI in order to generate new images, but it doesn't always work. And the more times you try to update running prompts, the more credits you use. Therefore, I just shifted to WordPress and started building my pages that way.