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How To Prevent Your WordPress Site From Being Attacked – 10 Simple WordPress Security Measures

Well … it eventually had to happen!

When you are the world’s most popular content management system and the preferred online publishing platform for over 60 million websites around the world, used by millions of businesses and loved by thousands of web developers and web designers, it’s inevitable that, at some point, WordPress will come under attack from hackers wanting to score a “big win”.

In early April 2013 a global “brute-force” attack began hitting WordPress installations across virtually every web host in existence around the world using botnets.

A “Botnet” is a network of private computers that has been infected with malicious software, which is then controlled remotely as a group, typically without the computer owners’ knowledge. Botnets are often used to send mass spam emails.

Below is a screenshot taken from an Internet Security monitoring site showing the locations of the command centers of ZeuS – a botnet that has been actively infecting computer networks all around the globe since 2009 …

The ongoing botnet attacks on WordPress are well-organized and highly-distributed. Over 90,000 IP addresses were identified by a number of webhosting companies just in the initial attack, when the web was flooded with millions of attempts to force their way into WordPress users administration areas. As this article is being written, over 30,000 WordPress sites are being hacked per day.

News of the April mass brute-force botnet attack was reported by all of the major webhosting companies, as well as the leading technology publications, such as Forbes, TechNews Daily, PC Magazine, Tech Crunch, BBC News, and even on the official website of the US Department of Homeland Security …

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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feeds

Content syndication is a very powerful and legitimate way to share content online. Feeds provide a way for other online users to keep up with the latest information posted on different sites.

First, let’s take a look at the concept of “syndication”.

Newspapers use syndication to publish content from other news agencies around the world. Syndication allows newspapers to deliver stories to their readers from all around the world and keep them up-to-date on the latest news, without actually having to employ and post reporters on every location around the planet …

Newspapers syndicate their news stories using news “feeds”…

Most sites actually want you to syndicate their content. Syndicating content not only allows great information to be shared, but it also drives visitors back to the site that published the original content being syndicated. This creates links that drive traffic back to their site.

Newspapers and major sites, for example, will have a feed section (look for links that say “RSS” or “Newsfeeds” in them) …

Clicking on the site’s RSS link brings up a list of RSS feeds giving you access to different content sections of the site …

Each of these RSS feeds allows you to access specific information from different sections of the site (e.g. business news, entertainment news, technology news, etc.) …

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1 – A Business Blog Helps You Create A More Personal Connection With Your Customers

Like social media, your blog gives you the opportunity to connect with your customers on a deeper and more personal level.

Traditionally, most websites are composed of static pages that “talk at” users. In other words, they simply tell other people about your business. A business blog can help you “talk with” your readers, because blogs can be made to be interactive.

A business blog allows you to start a dialog or conversation with your visitors. Your blog readers can leave comments after each article you post, which you can reply to. This both helps your audience to get to know you better, as well as helping you to better understand the needs of your market.

Your blog can also help give your business a human face and a social presence. There are many interactive “add-ons” you can add to your business blog to help you improve the way you connect with your customers and visitors.

With WordPress, for example, you can go beyond just replying to visitor comments and add additional interactive functionality to your blog using third-party applications called “plugins” that integrate seamlessly and easily with your blog to provide extra features like:

Personal Greetings
Contact Forms
FaceBook Comments
Social Sharing Buttons
Click-To-Call Buttons
Polls
Surveys
Maps
Customer Reviews And Testimonials
Forums
Interactive Chat / Video Chat Facilities
Interactive Webinars
Customer Support HelpDesk
Software That Tracks And Monitors Visitor Behavior On Your Site
etc …

We provide training information and reviews on using many of these interactive plugins in other blog posts and in our user training section.

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Small Business Blog Ideas – Using A Blog To Engage Your Customers

Lists And Checklists

Blog readers love lists and checklists. Lists are not only easy to read and to digest, but useful checklists can be shared socially around the web, driving more visitors to your blog.

Useful Tips: Some of the most popular articles to write lists for are “Top Ten” lists and “Biggest Mistakes To Avoid” lists. Start a “Topic Diary” and write your ideas for list topics down, then continue adding to this list whenever you come across a new topic idea. If you need some inspiration, check out Listverse – a website dedicated to “Top 10 Lists”.

You can engage your blog visitors and attract a lot of reader comments simply by asking them at the end of your list post what some of their ideas are, which item on the list was their favorite, was there anything they felt was left off the list, any new lists about your industry that they would like to see, etc…

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