Effective date: October 27, 2026
These Terms of Use govern access to and use of Sites By Doing, a digital publication operated by Northstack Media LLC.
By using this website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the website.
Informational and educational purposes
Sites By Doing provides general informational and educational content concerning website development, publishing, WordPress, domains, hosting, SEO, analytics, advertising, affiliate marketing, monetization, automation, AI-assisted workflows, and related subjects.
Content is intended to support learning and implementation. It does not replace individualized legal, tax, financial, cybersecurity, privacy, or professional technology advice.
No guarantee of website results
Sites By Doing does not guarantee that following any article, tutorial, system, workflow, publishing strategy, monetization method, or recommendation will produce:
- Search-engine rankings
- Search traffic
- Website visitors
- Advertising approval
- Advertising revenue
- Affiliate revenue
- Email subscribers
- Leads
- Sales
- Profit
- Business value
- Any other particular result
Website outcomes depend upon numerous factors outside the control of Sites By Doing and Northstack Media LLC.
Search engines and SEO
Search engines control their own crawling, indexing, ranking systems, algorithms, search features, and policies.
Sites By Doing does not guarantee:
- Indexing
- Ranking positions
- Organic traffic
- Featured snippets
- Search-engine visibility
- AI citations
- Discover traffic
- Continued ranking performance
Search systems and policies can change without notice.
Advertising monetization
Advertising networks and platforms control their own:
- Publisher eligibility
- Site approvals
- Advertising inventory
- Pricing
- Revenue
- Account status
- Policies
- Payment requirements
A technique discussed by Sites By Doing does not guarantee acceptance by Google AdSense or another advertising network.
Publishers are responsible for complying with the applicable network’s current policies.
Affiliate marketing
Affiliate programs can change:
- Commission rates
- Attribution periods
- Program availability
- Eligibility
- Merchant participation
- Product inventory
- Tracking systems
- Payment requirements
- Terms
Sites By Doing does not guarantee that affiliate links will generate clicks, transactions, commissions, or income.
Domains and hosting
Domains, hosting accounts, DNS settings, databases, content-management systems, and website configurations can be disrupted or lost through mistakes, provider failures, security incidents, expiration, configuration changes, or other events.
Maintain appropriate backups and recovery methods for important websites and data.
Verify important domain and hosting settings before making material changes.
Security and credentials
Never expose:
- Administrator passwords
- API keys
- Access tokens
- SSH keys
- Database passwords
- Private keys
- Authentication codes
- Recovery codes
in public repositories, website content, screenshots, or other unsecured locations.
Use appropriate authentication, permissions, updates, backups, and other security practices.
WordPress, plugins, and themes
WordPress, plugins, themes, hosting environments, and related services can differ by version and configuration.
An instruction that works in one environment may not produce the same result in another.
Before making material changes:
- Maintain appropriate backups
- Review current documentation
- Confirm compatibility
- Test important changes appropriately
- Maintain a recovery path
Software and APIs
Software, APIs, automation services, AI systems, and third-party integrations can change.
Providers may alter:
- Features
- APIs
- Authentication
- Pricing
- Rate limits
- Availability
- Data handling
- Integrations
- Terms
Verify current provider documentation before implementing important workflows.
AI-assisted publishing
Artificial intelligence systems can generate inaccurate, outdated, misleading, repetitive, or fabricated material.
Website owners remain responsible for content they publish.
AI-generated or AI-assisted material should receive appropriate review for:
- Accuracy
- Originality
- Sources
- Claims
- Copyright
- Privacy
- User value
- Compliance
Do not represent AI-generated testing, experience, quotations, statistics, or sources as real unless independently verified.
Intellectual property and content rights
Website publishers are responsible for ensuring they have appropriate rights to text, photographs, graphics, video, audio, trademarks, code, datasets, and other material they publish.
Do not copy or republish protected content merely because it is technically accessible online.
Use appropriately licensed or original content and follow applicable attribution requirements.
Privacy and user data
Website owners may have obligations relating to cookies, analytics, advertising, contact forms, email marketing, user accounts, consent, privacy disclosures, and other forms of personal-data processing.
Requirements depend upon circumstances and jurisdiction.
General information published by Sites By Doing is not individualized privacy or legal advice.
Product and service information
Hosting companies, software providers, domain registrars, advertising networks, affiliate networks, analytics platforms, and other services may change:
- Prices
- Features
- Plans
- Limits
- Policies
- Interfaces
- Availability
- Eligibility
- Terms
Although Sites By Doing may update content, we do not guarantee that every page will always reflect the latest information.
Verify material details through the applicable provider’s current official resources.
Editorial practices
Sites By Doing may use software and AI-assisted tools to support research organization, drafting, editing, formatting, analysis, or publishing workflows.
We aim to review material claims and distinguish third-party documentation and research from firsthand experience.
We do not claim firsthand testing, implementation, account ownership, revenue, or results unless the applicable article expressly states that such experience occurred.
Affiliate relationships and advertising
Sites By Doing may contain affiliate links, sponsored material, and advertising.
Northstack Media LLC may receive compensation when visitors click certain links, register, subscribe, purchase products or services, or complete other qualifying actions.
Compensation does not guarantee favorable coverage, inclusion, a particular rating, or recommendation.
Additional information appears in our Affiliate Disclosure.
Third-party products and services
References and links to hosting providers, domain registrars, software platforms, advertising networks, affiliate networks, analytics services, search engines, merchants, and other third parties are provided for information and convenience.
Northstack Media LLC does not control and is not responsible for third-party:
- Products
- Search-engine decisions
- Advertising approvals
- Account decisions
- Availability
- Security
- Privacy practices
- Pricing
- Billing
- Product changes
- APIs
- Integrations
- Service performance
Use third-party products and services according to their current documentation, agreements, policies, and requirements.
Intellectual property on Sites By Doing
Unless otherwise stated, original text, site design, organization, branding, graphics, media, templates, and other original content published by Sites By Doing are owned by or licensed to Northstack Media LLC and may be protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.
You may:
- View the website for personal or internal informational use
- Share links to publicly accessible pages
- Quote brief portions with appropriate attribution and a link to the original page where legally permitted
Without prior written permission, you may not:
- Republish complete articles
- Redistribute substantial collections of tutorials or templates
- Systematically copy, crawl, or scrape the website
- Remove copyright or proprietary notices
- Sell, license, or redistribute our content
- Represent Sites By Doing content as your own
- Use our branding in a manner implying endorsement
- Build a competing content database from substantial portions of the website
Nothing in these Terms limits rights available under applicable law.
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Interfere with website operation or security
- Attempt unauthorized access
- Introduce malicious code
- Circumvent access or security controls
- Place an unreasonable automated burden on the website
- Submit unlawful, deceptive, infringing, abusive, or malicious material
- Falsely imply affiliation with Sites By Doing or Northstack Media LLC
- Use the website in violation of applicable law
User submissions
If you submit feedback, corrections, code examples, screenshots, suggestions, or other material, you represent that you are authorized to provide it and doing so does not violate another party’s rights.
You retain ownership of your original material.
You grant Northstack Media LLC permission to use submitted material as reasonably necessary to review the submission, respond, verify information, correct or update content, protect the website, and operate the publication.
Do not submit credentials, private keys, client information, proprietary code, confidential documents, or sensitive datasets.
Disclaimer of warranties
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Sites By Doing and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied.
We do not warrant that the website will always be available, secure, error-free, uninterrupted, complete, current, or suitable for a particular publishing, technical, SEO, or business objective.
Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Northstack Media LLC and its owners, personnel, contractors, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to use of, or inability to use, Sites By Doing.
This includes losses associated with:
- Website changes
- Search traffic
- Search rankings
- Advertising revenue
- Affiliate revenue
- Domain or hosting issues
- Data loss
- Third-party services
- Account suspension
- Security incidents
- Business interruption
- Reliance on outdated information
Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.
Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Northstack Media LLC and its owners, personnel, contractors, and service providers from claims, liabilities, losses, and reasonable expenses arising from unlawful use of the website, violation of these Terms, or infringement of another party’s rights.
Changes to the website or Terms
We may modify, suspend, remove, or discontinue website content or functionality.
We may also update these Terms. The effective date at the beginning identifies the current published version.
Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles, unless applicable law requires otherwise.
Severability
If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain effective to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Entire agreement
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and policies expressly incorporated by reference, constitute the agreement governing use of Sites By Doing.
Contact
Questions concerning these Terms may be submitted through our Contact page.
Enter Terms Question as the subject.
Sites By Doing
Operated by Northstack Media LLC