How to Limit a Housing Market Widget to Your Own Website
Tutorial 153 of 181 · 1 min 54 s
The Websites tab of a widget decides which websites may show it, so nobody else can copy your code and use your properties. This tutorial adds your website to the list, explains why an empty list means any website, and then proves that the website is yours with one of three checks: a DNS record, a tag in your home page or a small file. Proving ownership is a separate, optional step that unlocks importing your listings from the site and sending ads to its pages.
In this tutorial you will learn
- How to limit a widget to your own website
- Why an empty list means any website carries the widget
- The three ways to prove that a website is yours
- What Check ownership does and why it can say not yet
Follow along: the steps
- This is your Housing Market CRM dashboard.
- Open Properties in the left menu.
- Click Website widgets.
- Open Homepage listings.
- Open the Websites tab.
- With no website listed, the widget works on any website that carries the code.
- Add your own website, without https://.
- Your plan says how many websites one widget may list.
- Click Add website.
- Now only this website can show the widget.
- Proving that the website is yours is a separate, optional step.
- It is needed to import your listings from the website and to send ads to its pages.
- Open How to prove it is your website.
- Add a DNS record…
- …or put this tag in the head of your home page…
- …or publish this file. Any one of them is enough.
- Before the proof is in place, Check ownership says it cannot find it.
- Changes can take a while to show: try again in a few minutes.
- Once your record, tag or file is live, check again.
- Click Check ownership.
- Done: the website is proven to be yours.
- The list shows Ownership proven and the date.
- The widget now shows only on your website.