The internet is filled with more and more marketers, many of whom are creating their own websites to market products. While having your own website will help you attract potential customers, it will also attract hackers who can wreak havoc on your site if you are not well protected.
Here are some things you can do to help protect your websites.
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If you aren’t using plugins to protect your WordPress blog from spam, you must very frustrated with blog spam right now. While doing a little blog maintenance recently I was reminded that automated blog spamming makes it possible for spammers to constantly attack.
In order to update one of my spam stopping plugins, I deactivated it. Of course, right at that moment my son needed a ride so I left my desk for about 20 minutes. In that short amount of time, four spam comments were posted and nearly another dozen spam comments and spam trackbacks were awaiting moderation. At that pace it would be impossible to maintain a blog without constant attention to all the spam.
How to keep a blog spam free (more…)