What is updowner-verification?

[nopsts]

Every page of my website has these codes, what is updowner-verification and it's content code? (I bought a HTML template from a guy)

<title>Title is here..</title>

[ecommercebc]

Hey,

There's been a few threads on here about Updowner, but most are about folks trying to block them so they don't push up their backlinks. The good news is, G ignores them anyway. It looks like your HTML template contains code that verifies site ownership with Updowner, which might be used to block Updowner from indexing/creating hundreds of links to the site.

I'm not 100% on this, but seeing as no one else has weighed in. I believe the previous site owner has verified that they're the owner of those sites with Updowner. You'd usually do this to block their robots. Excerpt included below:

To register, you have to add a meta tag to your index page or you can just upload a verification file, which is easiest.  It’s just like verifying for Google Webmaster Tools. Download the 55 byte file and upload it to your site’s main directory. So, for me, it’s public_html/theseonewsblog. For you it may be www/yourdomain or public_html/yourdomain. (Some folks prefer to use the www directory. Makes no difference.)

Once you’ve done that, then plug in your domain at UpDowner and verify your account.

At the top of that page, there is a link that says, “Block Site,” and when you click it, UpDowner will not list your site. I’m hoping that means they’ll delete the links they’ve placed pointing to us, too, but well… time will tell.

Google ignores Updowner links anyway. but if I were you I'd probably remove that code.