Step by Step instructions and video on how to add a DMCA.com Protection Badge onto your website.
register first - Website Badge registration it's free, costs you nothing
Pick a Badge you like, Note: if you do not pick the badge code when you are logged into the Protection Portal none of the pages your badge choice is placed on will be indexed to your DMCA.com Protection account.
copy the embed code, and
paste it either in the footer of your website (to protect all pages with that footer), or on certain pages you want protected.
Badge code embed best practices:make certain the DMCA.com code is "view-able" within the source code of your webpage do not remove the GUID or Unique alphanumeric tracking and status page code.do not remove the status page link. better users see your protection status than the DMCA.com home page.make certain the webpage(s) you are placing the badge on is free of validation errors. Check your webpages through a markup validation service Get Verified Status by far the best option for your website is to have a fully verified website certificate and status page. The website certificate and status page is connected to your Protection Badge.
Every page that contains a DMCA Protection Badge will be automatically added to the your protected pages list.
New web pages with the DMCA Protection Badge are detected instantly and generally appear in the secure DMCA Protection Portal Protected Pages list within 24 hours after placing the DMCA Protection Badge on your webpage.
Placing the DMCA.com Protection Badge on your webpage triggers the DMCA.com crawling / indexing systems to come check your page as it is requested.
Notes regarding DMCA.com Protection Page indexing:
However, most new web browsers cache the badge and so it may not be actually requesting the badge from each page that you visit as your browser is likely caching our protection badge, therefore not queuing the page for for crawling/indexing.
With DMCA.com's Free Protection Badge service indexing is also page traffic dependent. Some pages may index slower if they do not have user traffic. To test simply refresh a low / no traffic page and check the index.
CONFIRM IT WORKS!
Once the protection badge code has been placed on your website / webpages, click on the badge to confirm the link to your DMCA.com Website Certificate works. It is quite likely the first time you click on the badge the Website Certificate will return with an error message and status "Unavailable". However simply refresh (or hit f5) on your webpage and click the protection badge again.
Your DMCA.com Website Certificate will remain "Unavailable" if the DMCA.com Protection Badge Security crawler is unable to do the following:
access the page
parse the source code of that page
locate a badge on the page
get a HTTP 200 response from your site
A tool like Fetch as Google for sites can be used to test whether or not the DMCA.com Protection Badge Security crawler is able to locate the badge code placed on your website.
place a webpage URL where the badge HTML has been added (or should be added) into the Google crawler utility
click submit, you should see a result of your page how it would appear to Google's site crawler. This can be used to test whether or not your website server is responding with the right headers and content.
If you have any further questions about this, please submit a question and we will be happy to answer.
Other FAQ's that will interest you:
Can I add the same Protection Badge to multiple websites under one DMCA Protection Account?
Will adding a DMCA Badge effect the performance of my Website?
What does "Protection Status Unavailable" mean?
What is the difference between Protection Pro Basic (free) and Protection Pro (paid)?