Is "Identity not verified" a problem? If so, how to solve it?

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This has nothing to do with SEO, Google, Bing, or any other website. You need to get an SSL certificate that verifies your identity for this to say your identity is verified.

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B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven

My novel about climate change and social justice featuring talking animals traveling through time and space to prevent disasters is now available on amazon, in three formats: Taterskin & The Eco Defenders Kindle eBook; Taterskin & The Eco Defenders Paperback; Taterskin & The Eco Defenders Hardcover Taterskin & The Eco Defenders, told in “first canine” by the titular character, a Labrador Retriever, is the story of a few humans and several talking animals who travel through time and space to make the past—and thus the future—a better place. The improvements effected by the Eco Defenders benefit not just the earth itself, but also mistreated humans and animals. In Book 1 (“Wonders Never Cease”), The Eco Defenders travel 150 million years into the past, to meet a Pterodactyl and make plans to “nip Nazism in the bud.” After that, it's on to 1787 Australia to protect the indigenous people and the environment there. The Eco Defenders next go to India, where they assemble animals from all over that country to put an end to Thuggee and fights to the death between Cobras and Mongooses. Their final stop is 1885 Africa, where the Eco Defenders band together with the local animals to prevent King Leopold of Belgium from taking control of the Congo, following which they put an end to the poaching of animals throughout the continent. Book 2 (“Tell it to Future Generations”) takes up with the Eco Defenders following up on their earlier adventures by 1) Preventing the American Civil War in 1861, after which a slave they free joins them; 2) Saving the Indians from being massacred at Wounded Knee in 1890, following which Chapawee, a Sioux Indian, joins the Eco Defenders; 3) Putting an end to the practice of vivisection (experimentation on live animals) in 1903; 4) Coming to the aid of exploited workers in 1911 Manhattan, saving hundreds from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire; and 5) Traveling to the Amazon Basin in 1978 to protect and preserve the Amazon rainforest. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ I have lived in eight states; besides my native California (where I was born and where I now again reside), in chronological order I have infested: New York (Brooklyn), Montana (Helena), Alaska (Anchorage), Oklahoma (Bethany), Wisconsin (New Berlin and Oconomowoc), Idaho (Coeur d'Alene), and Missouri (Piedmont). I am a writer of both fiction (for which I use the nom de guerre "Blackbird Crow Raven", as a nod to my Native American heritage - I am "½ Cowboy, ½ Indian") and nonfiction, including a two-volume social and cultural history of the U.S. which covers important events from 1620-2006 and can be downloaded gratis here.

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven over 1 year

When I select the context menu item "View Page Info" on my site (using Chrome), I see "Identity not verified"

Should I be:

(a) concerned (b) angry (c) nonchalant

?

If one of the first two, what can I do to "verify my identity"?

I have submitted my site to Google and Bing, it is hosted with Discount ASP.NET, and I have tweaked the SEO as much as practical.
- Admin over 10 years
  
  It isn't "your" identity that needs to be verified. Rather, it is the identity of your "site".
- Admin over 10 years
  
  Right, I realize that.
B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven over 10 years

Okay, how I get an SSL certificate, or first: what are the benefits of getting an SSL certificate?
John Conde over 10 years

Why get an SSL certificate?. You can get one from a variety of places. I recommend checking out a few of them as prices can vary tremendously.
B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven over 10 years

Based on what I read here: ezinearticles.com/… and here: sslshopper.com/…, I probably don't need it for my site, as I don't sell anything directly from there. It would seem to be of primary advantage to give users a "good feeling" about the site; ISTM my web hosting company should be the one that takes care of this, so that all of their sites are "identified"
John Conde over 10 years

Yeah. The whole identity thing only comes if you have a trust relationship with your users. If you're not selling anything or requiring sensitive data you won't need to worry about this.