Your Blog Is At War, Help Defend It
Yep, you heard me right. Spammers, hackers, trogans and viruses… it’s a jungle out there. And your blog is a sitting duck.
I have a series of suggestions I will be making over the upcoming days to help you defend this valuable asset in your online marketing arsenal, so stayed tuned. And if you haven’t grabbed the RSS feed yet, this might be a good time…
Wordpress Antivirus
The first recommendation is that you go and install the Antivirus plugin to help keep your beautiful theme files from infecting visitors that land on your site. There is no bigger turn off for a visitor than to have YOUR site infect them.
AntiVirus for WordPress monitors malicious injections and warns you of any possible attacks. With multilingual support. Simply, the plugin you must have.
Ideal as a supplement to the manual security measures in your blogs. Hey, it’s free!
Settings include a manual scan, an auto-scan with email alerts in the effect it find something suspicious.
Download: Wordpress Antivirus here
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blog post webpage.Defend Your Blog: Scan For Vulnerabilities
about 8 months ago - 7 comments
I hate to do it. Tempt the fates that is. After weeks of effort, lost time, missed billables, disappointed clients and frustrated days — I think I am free. Virus free that is.
And even as I am writing this post, I feel a tremor in my loins. A quick check of my site in my FTP program shows a cache directory I didn’t update! Run the file permissions recursed into subfolders and update the .htaccess file to protect the directory. Am I ready? Maybe.
Protecting Your Blogs FTP Area
about 9 months ago - 1 comment
Some %$@#$>%$@#$#^& found/hacked/stole your FTP account password. Now what? Well, change it of course, but that might not be enough.
(Can you feel my self restraint in not actually swearing?)
Here is a simple method you can use to prevent anyone other than you from uploading or downloading files.
Defend Against The Bot’s
about 9 months ago - 6 comments
(Part of an ongoing series on protecting your most valuable asset in your online marketing arsenal, your Wordpress blog)
Sabre: Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine
Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.
Your visitors are granted permission to register freely on your blog and now you are plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers?
Firewall For Your Wordpress Blog
about 9 months ago - 13 comments
(Part of an ongoing series on protecting your most valuable asset in your online marketing arsenal)
In the military, they call it “hardening targets” when they take steps to make it harder for the enemy to attack an asset. Here in the real world, it’s hard to think like that. But not thinking like this could cost you time, money, reputation and frustration.
I know from first hand experience.
When I started this series, it was in response to the attack my personal hosting account suffered. And because it was my hosting account, and not a single blog, but rather every single one of my sites was hit.
Take my advice and harden your assets now.
18 Wordpress Plugins I Can Not Live Without
about 9 months ago - 37 comments
I have been promising a list of my personal *must have* plugins that I install on any new blog. Today, that promise is kept.
These are the plugins I install on every blog I create, regardless of niche or specialty. There are a few that I add to certain types of blogs that will won’t be discussed, but you can get more information on these in my book, the Ultimate Guide To Wordpress Plugins.
They are listed alphabetically, not in the order of installation.
Each of these plugins play nice with all the plugins listed here. No animals were harmed during the making of this list.
Customize Tag Cloud Appearance To Help Visitors Find Your Content
about 1 year ago - 8 comments
I know you thought you’d never hear me say this, but a plugin isn’t always the best way to handle a small change in your Wordpress Theme. Especially since each plugin adds it’s own load time to the overall page load time. Fast = visitors stay longer.
Come on, we are a generation of short-attention spanned humans, struggling to assimilate the thousands of bits of information that flow like a river into our awareness. The longer a page takes to load, the less inclined we are to look at other content on a site. One slow page, especially the main page, and most folks will pack up their little red wagon and move on.
Can Your Site Survive A Digg?
about 1 year ago - 6 comments
Most bloggers blog away, and slowly — over time — build up their readership. They are rocking along on a hosting company pretty much like everyone else’s and not giving much thought to bandwidth or page views.
Oh sure, we all want more, I mean who doesn’t want more page views? But what happens to your site if suddenly, with no warning — 30 thousand people show up? It can happen if you land on the front page of Digg. That’s right… just one great blog post that goes viral, and they could literally be beating down your virtual door.
Ultimate Guide to Wordpress Plugins Released Today!
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
Anyone who tells you just *put a product out there*, hasn’t actually tried that. Trust me.
There is a bit of work involved, but I have to say, it was worth it. When I sat back (at 5:30am this morning) and reviewed everything one last time, I can’t tell you the sense of accomplishment, almost awe, at all that I beheld.
Okay, remember it’s early so I am allowed to *wax poetic* a little, right?
Many of the guru’s will tell you to outsource, and while I agree to a certain extent, you should have some idea how…
Ultimate Wordpress Plugin Blueprint
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Okay, this is a tease. Sorry about that.
I am working on a new eBook, which is why I haven’t been blogging as much recently. Well, that and the other 10 blogs I manage. Sheesh. I gotta simplify.
But I digress.
I do private coaching with people just starting out with the whole *blogging * thing, and some More >
Is Your Blog Vulnerable To Attack?
about 1 year ago - 8 comments
A few days ago, I was working on one of my blogs, and I happen to notice that the .htaccess file was larger than I remembered. I am talking about file size here . Yeah, I know. It’s not the kind of thing most people notice, but I kinda have a thing for numbers. More >
about 10 months ago
Thanks Cenay! I am becoming a fan fast! As always, your help and insight is invaluable.
Taylor Darcy´s last blog ..Ignorance isn’t always bliss
about 10 months ago
Thanks for the word up on this plugging Cenay and the rock solid support that you are continually giving to everyone. You are a champion :)
about 10 months ago
You are most welcome Taylor and David. So happy the information helps you protect your asset or gives you insights.