In this week’s episode of Internet Marketing have a special how-to episode on making your WordPress and Joomla more secure and avoid getting hacked and penalised by Google.
You can listen to the episode on the player below, subscribe to the podcast feed or listen in on iTunes
Details of what we covered after the jump.
- Benefits and Downside of Open Source CMS
- Benefits of Plugins and Extensions
- Admiting you’re a marketer not a technician
- Cloaked Links – So search engines see the spam links but you don’t
- Why WordPress gets hacked for the same reason Apples don’t get viruses
- Stay Updated with the latest version
- WordPress Automatic Upgrade
- Joomla Automatic Upgrade
- Make your folders unwritable using chmod
- Keep Plugins updated
- Have a decent alphanumeric password
- Upload blank index.html files in your folders
- Remove Version Header Tags
- Delete the Admin User Account
- Avoid SQL link injection by changing the table prefixes in wordpress and joomla
- Restrict access to CMS admin based on i.p address and .htacess file
- Delete old plugins
- Set up Google Alerts to monitor for hacking
- Setting up a Google Alert
As always you can get in touch by emailing kelvin.newman@sitevisibility.com, leaving us a comment at https://www.internetmarketingpodcast.org or using the Twitter hashtag #impc