Finding your website content stolen is infuriating but fixable. This complete guide walks you through documenting theft, contacting infringers, filing DMCA takedowns, and protecting your content from future theft. Includes templates, tools, and step-by-step instructions for recovering your intellectual property.
Discover the hidden files that control your website’s behavior, security, and search engine visibility. This business-owner-friendly guide explains what .htaccess and robots.txt files do, common uses, warning signs of problems, and what to ask your web developer about these critical files.
Every day, businesses receive fraudulent emails from “SEO experts” promising first-page rankings and finding “critical errors.” These are scams, often containing malware. Learn to spot fake SEO solicitations, understand their tactics, protect your business from fraud, and know what legitimate SEO communication actually looks like. Written by someone who’s dealt with these scams for over a decade.
Of the content management system options currently available WordPress is the most popular since it has a user friendly interface, is easy install and has an active development community for quality themes, plugins, and answers. What may not be known by all is that the popular CMS options (while generally very secure) are often the…
An important part of having a website is ensuring that it is kept secure. In the past the need of security wasn’t so much of an issue, yet the use of hacker bots to look for site and database vulnerabilities has become very prevalent in the last couple of years. It is important to understand…
Protect Yourself from Email Spam Everyone gets email spam, and while it can be a general annoyance, it can also be dangerous if you aren’t careful on how you manage it. In this blog post I wanted to share how I identify “dangerous” spam, and offer some of my own strategies to protect myself. The…
Security on the Web is undeniably important, both with one’s personal computers and the websites stored on hosting servers. I have dealt with a variety of hacker intrusion issues over the years, and most have been of the SQL Injection or email malware type. Just recently one of my clients acquired a trojan which resulted…