Here's what you need to know about who owns your website

Do you really own your own website? Check out these helpful resources to learn all about how web ownership works so you can protect your content and analytics.

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Key quotes:

  • "You might want to add more than one verification method in case one of your existing verification methods fails (for example, if you verified using a Google Analytics tracking code, and someone changes a template on your website that omits the tag)."
  • "The user agent that performs file upload verification has the user agent token Google-Site-Verification and the full user agent string Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-Site-Verification/1.0) Potential errors: The following errors can occur with HTML file upload verification: HTML tag for site ownership verification — Google Search Console Training You can verify your ownership of a site by adding a <meta> tag to the HTML of a specified page."
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Key quotes:

  • "If you’re thinking about scraping financial data for personal or business use, here’s what you need to know about what’s accepted, what’s discouraged, and what’s illegal."
  • "Search engines like Google or Bing scrape data to index and rank web content, which brings traffic and visibility to the sites it crawls."
  • "Those terms are legally binding, so if the business whose data you’re targeting considers you a threat, there’s nothing stopping them from pursuing legal action (sensing a pattern here?)."
  • "Web scrapers typically want to pull data as fast as possible, but this can cause major issues for the website being scraped."
  • "Scraping is not a reliable long-term solution for your data needs."
  • "What are the alternatives to scraping financial data? If you’re wary of the legal and ethical consequences of scraping data (and you most definitely should be, depending on your intended use), there are alternatives."
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Key quotes:

  • "To get started in web development you’ll need to know three key languages: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript."
  • "The HTML code includes tags which tell the visitors browser how to render the data on their screen, informing it when certain parts, such as paragraphs and images, start and end."
  • "A website created using HTML and CSS can look great, but it’s just static."
  • "Learning to develop websites as a career has many advantages: Web development is a highly-flexible job that allows you to work how you want."
  • "Getting started as a web developer is easy; all you need is internet access and some learning materials, which are readily available online."
  • "HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are the essential ingredients, but if you’re passionate there’s a whole lot more you might want to learn to further your career."
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Key quotes:

  • "Not every website issue calls for a redesign By Amy Daniels Originally published at Trajectory Web Design If you do a Google search for signs that you need a new website, you’ll find a lot of blogs from web design companies listing off countless reasons that you need a completely new website."
  • "For example, many of these posts say you need a new website if your current one doesn’t rank well in search engines, includes autoplay or flash content, or doesn’t include links to your social media accounts."
  • "In SEO, there’s a lot you can do to gradually improve the way your site ranks in search engines."
  • "Read more: 4 Reasons Why You Need to make Mobile-Friendly Web Design a Priority If your current website isn’t responsive, it isn’t a matter of making a few tweaks to fix that."
  • "Maybe your web design team pushes back on every request you make, or maybe you’re working with a DIY website platform that offers you no technical support."
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Key quotes:

  • "S Corp An S Corporation is more attractive to small business owners opening up a retail store than a C Corp because it’s a hybrid of a corporation and partnership."
  • "SEE ALSO: 26 Inexpensive Customer Appreciation Ideas Employees and Staff As much as you’ve said to yourself that you don’t need to hire employees or you can handle it all yourself, chances are you’re going to have to hire some employees."
  • "Once you’re done with that, we recommend buying the domain name for your business and creating accounts for it on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter."
  • "Here’s are some of the major tools you’ll want to account for: Point of Sale (POS) System Sure, you can use a cash register if you really want to, but most small business retailers will get significantly more value out of a tablet-based POS system."
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What customers & experts say

Roberto
Roberto Customer / Emerald Gardens

“B12 was able to give us the flexibility we needed to play around with website elements while guiding us in our first attempt at building a website.”

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Megan
Megan Customer success at B12

“The website editor rocks! It makes it easy to add new items while keeping the same theme and structure I set when I created the site, no reformatting needed. It's fool proof and provides everything needed to create a seamless, gorgeous website. I actually use B12 for my own website!”

Natalie
Natalie Customer / Natalie Elisha Gold

“The entire \[B12] process felt really quick and efficient. I was able to work with them and highlight certain areas that I wanted on my website. Everything that I didn’t like was changed in a matter of seconds and minutes. It was vastly different compared to the previous team that I had hired to do my website.”

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Dan
Dan Sales at B12

“Business owners are crazy busy. What's crazier is expecting a business owner to know how to design, maintain, direct traffic to, and update their own website. Thanks to our AI, they really don't have to. B12's AI-powered websites are powerful and we can't wait to get what we've built in front of people.”

Kelly
Kelly Customer success at B12

“We pride ourselves on excellent customer service. I love how customer-centric we are, and the technology we use to speed up the website creation process has helped us to deliver professional sites in a shorter span of time.”

Karen
Karen Customer / The Lin Life

“B12 uses artificial intelligence to create websites quickly. The human team is friendly and accessible for those new to website development. I have a polished website in a shorter amount of time at an excellent value.”

Chuck
Chuck Customer / Crowdfluencer

“My B12 website looks great, I am truly satisfied with the outcome. I love the responsiveness of our new website, plus it's incredibly light and fast. The team did an incredible job with the styles and the designs really popped for me.”

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Nikolai
Nikolai Expert at B12

“I use B12’s website editor on a daily basis and I love how easy it is to personalize the style. I’m able to add multiple images, videos, and text in different layouts based on the preference of our customers in just a few hours! It’s been a huge time-saver, given how intuitive the interface is.”

David
David Design expert at B12

“Designing a website in just a couple of hours is actually possible. Thanks to B12's simple-to-use website editor, I'm able to create professional designs that would normally cost thousands of dollars.”

Annabel
Annabel Customer / Evolv Ventures

“My B12 experience has been great! What I appreciate most is that I can edit the site personally whenever I want to, but I can also ask for support when there are changes that I'm not able to make myself. B12 is great blend of a DIY service and a full-service website agency.”

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Rick
Rick Customer / Rick Finbow Enterprises, LLC

“I think it's great that B12 is watching out for me. I'm reminded to update my website and I get ideas. I like that I'm not in it alone.”

Heidi
Heidi Customer / CD Roma

“Since the launch, we’ve gotten more form submissions to inquire about our catering service and menu options. On top of that, I’ve noticed more customers who found out about us through our website before coming down to dine! The traffic we’ve realized in the short time the site has been online is very impressive.”

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Anne
Anne Customer / Grit and Grace

“The value of the B12 website was there from the very start. I noticed more traffic coming in immediately, which is hugely important for me. Knowing that B12’s tools are constantly optimizing my website for search engines offers me peace of mind. It helps me focus on running my business instead of trying to figure out how to run a website.”

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Liam
Liam Sales at B12

“B12 aims to help small business owners by saving them time to focus doing what they do best — running their business. We want to help them increase their bottom line by providing high-quality websites at a fraction of the price charged by boutique agencies and other DIFY providers.”

Mandie
Mandie Design expert at B12

“I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the B12 website editor. It allows me to make pixel-perfect websites in a fraction of the time.”

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