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Have You Given A Stranger The KEYS TO YOUR HOUSE!!!🙋♀️
How shall I put this nicely…
Well, if your website is a part of your business and your web designer from 3 years ago still has access……🤔
Watch this video to learn 3 things that website developers almost never tell clients to do. 😱😱😱😱
Thoughts and comments below please .
Best -Edward
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stop before you swipe by i’m gonna tell
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you about the top three things count of
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one two three things that your web
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developer is not telling you to do to
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secure your website
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hi greetings my name is edward ferguson
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i am ceo and creative director at
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thewebpagesite.com we do website
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maintenance management and design so if
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you’re looking for one of those services
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check us out
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and get a free audit at
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thewebpagesite.com
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all right guys now before i jump into
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the meat of this video make sure you do
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the thing if you have the opportunity to
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like and to subscribe on this particular
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channel go ahead and smash that button
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check that box and do the thing all
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right so tip number one number one and
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this is this is going to be a hard tip
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for you guys so
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i can’t tell you how many times that
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i’ve logged onto websites and the
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developer that originally built the
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website still has access to the website
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i’m talking about like one two three
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four years later after the website is
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built the developer has access to the
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website that is a huge no-no i can’t
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tell you how many times that i’ve gone
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on development
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communities environments and those could
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be like platforms like fiverr uh and
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similar where people are purchasing web
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design products and they’re building it
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using someone else’s platform they could
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be building it on your platform and
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and then selling it to someone else so
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they’re literally not only are they
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stealing from you but they’re also
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potentially exposing your website so
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let’s say you have an e-commerce site
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and you’re selling products the
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developers should not have access to
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your website they have access to your
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clients addresses their clients credit
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cards and so much information so unless
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you have an agreement with that
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developer to maintain and manage that
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site once the project is done
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you should have them actually removed
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from your site so that is a huge no no
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and uh right behind that number two
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number two the second tip i would say is
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to make sure that you have a backup i
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can’t tell you how many times that i’ve
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seen sites that have been handed over
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and then
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once they get handed over the customer
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is like uh
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yeah i we need to contact the developer
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again because we messed up the site
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so the developer typically when we’re
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building sites we we may do backups of
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the sites but we’re under no obligation
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to back up the site for you and if the
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site gets damaged or destroyed then
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that’s either going to be another fee or
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you’re out of your investment so it’s
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critically important to update your
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website and yes your website again is
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worth two hundred thousand dollars like
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i talked to talk to you guys about in my
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other videos
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you’re just about to let your investment
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just float away just because you didn’t
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uh utilize a backup software or service
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or team
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backups can be free for some platforms
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other platforms you may have to pay a
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nominal fee it could be like 10 bucks 20
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bucks a month
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worth every penny of it especially when
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you talk about
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twenty dollars for the year versus
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losing your investment worth two hundred
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thousand dollars all right and number
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three
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number three is kind of like a weird one
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so the the third thing that uh and this
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depends on the on the platform too so i
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have to add the third thing is adding
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some sort of
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defense or malware system you see this a
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lot in the the builder platforms where
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you have to build this like a drupal or
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or wordpress platform those environments
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you are responsible for putting malware
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protection so just like your mac or your
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pc or even your your cell phone your
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android phone you you buy the the suite
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of protection there are suites of
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protection in addition to firewalls that
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you can install on your website now yes
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it’s gonna cost more money and these
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services typically just like your
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laptops are subscription services
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but it’s gonna prevent you from getting
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that phone call in the middle of the
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night from a customer saying hey um yeah
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i just went to your website and i’m
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getting redirected to a gambling site or
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a slot site or or even worse some other
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crazy site that isn’t related to your
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brand that could be a huge problem for
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you in addition to that
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depending on the type of intrusion to or
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to your website
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it can expose customer data customer
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information and privacy is pretty huge
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now even if you aren’t on one of those
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diy building platforms even some of the
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advanced systems uh that are maintained
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like uh like a wix or shopify or square
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they have two-factor authentication now
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a lot of you guys are like oh two-factor
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authentication
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uh just it takes so many times i need my
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my my google authenticator or my
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facebook authenticator or my ubi key you
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be key or one of those type things well
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the thing is with that that protects
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your account it protects because your
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website is sitting on the internet 24
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hours a day seven days a week it is
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completely exposed and you may not have
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the tools to
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to see what’s going on but the hackers
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do and so they have these programs that
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are constantly just scanning the
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internet looking for people that have
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weak passwords or or usernames that are
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common like using admin as a username
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and once they hit that that’s jackpot
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for them it’s gold they’re able to
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access your system and depending on the
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platform
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if you if your account gets compromised
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it can be a while to get it back um and
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that happens on many different platforms
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not even just the
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the diy or the home hosted websites even
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facebook facebook is it’s it’s a web app
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it’s a website so
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uh if your
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uh
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business is primarily using that website
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to function and you don’t have access to
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it and someone’s hacked it well then you
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run into issue of losing customers we
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all have been across that oh i got a new
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friend request from you or your business
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anyway um if you found that this
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particular has video again don’t forget
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to do the thing to smash that button or
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to check the box and to like and to
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subscribe to this particular channel i’m
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your web guru edward ferguson from
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thewebpagesite.com
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thanks for stopping by and i will see
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you all next video