Guest Post: Security Basic for Bloggers
Today’s post was contributed by friend Cody Lents, partner and change manager at Covi, a professional services information technology agency in Indianapolis, IN.
SECURITY BASICS FOR BLOGGERS
- Start by securing your admin portal. Here are 14 tips for doing this with WordPress.
- Make sure your blog is being automatically backed up with alerts for successful and failed backups. Then, occasionally double-check to make sure the alerts are accurate. Here are some plugins to help.
- Some of us want others to share our content as much as possible. But, in some cases protecting our authorship is a priority. Try using something like 33 Across’ Site Ctrl to protect from cut & paste plagiarism, and no matter your philosophy on ‘borrowed’ content you should set up your Google Authorship to maximize SEO.
- Implement hotlinking protection. I recommend CloudFlare or a WordPress plugin for this.
- Only install ‘Trusted Plugins’
- Ensure security plugins are installed. Here are 8 recommendations from one of my favorite cybersecurity organizations. – Make sure you choose one with built-in firewall security or get a separate firewall plugin.
- If you’re uncomfortable managing your sites security, pay a professional to do it. Typically, a simple blog site can be maintained for $100 – $200 per month.
Bonus: If you really want to deter content theft you could dabble in this plugin. – Prevent Content Theft
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