If you or someone else in your business is responsible as the owner of a website, it is very important that you have all the required user names, passwords, and access points (URLs) in case your current web developers get hit by a truck or you have a falling out with them.
Here’s a list of such information which might be helpful for you; having all the information filled in will be a valuable “free” insurance policy:
- Access to registration of your domain name, so you can renew the domain name and control what web hosting company hosts your website.
- Name of domain host: ____________________
- Account user name: ____________________
- Account password: ____________________
- Access to your web hosting account control panel so you can control your emails and key website features
- Name of web hosting company: ____________________
- URL (complete web address) of control panel log-in: ____________________
- User name: ____________________
- Password: ____________________
- FTP (file transfer protocol) access to your website’s electronic files (pages and folders), required for uploading and changing pages, images and other components
- User name: ____________________
- Password: ____________________
- Access to your blog or content management system if your site has one
- URL of administrative control log-in: ________________
- User name: ____________________
- Password: ____________________
- Access to any other scripts (programs) that run on your website, such as a search function or online contact form controls
- Log-in URL for each script: ____________________
- Username for each script: ____________________
- Password for each script: ____________________
- Access to any databases your site uses (common with content management systems)
- Code names of databases: ____________________
- Address of local host for databases: _________________
- Code names of database users: ____________________
- Password(s) for each database user: _________________
- Access to your Google Adwords account if your site has one
- User name (email): ____________________
- Password: ____________________
- Monthly budget and credit card being charged for the Adwords campaign, if any: ____________________
- List of keywords your website is optimized for, if any
- Keywords list: ____________________
- Indicate which of these are used in Google adwords, and which are not ___
- List of pages for which these keywords are optimized ____________________
- Report of your current keyword rankings on the major search engines – Google, Yahoo and Bing __________________________________________________________________________________________________
- Any other search engine marketing programs or services being performed for your website if not listed above: __________________________________________________________________________________________________