Don't Get Hacked!

wordpress-website-hacked-by-hackers-0.jpg” alt=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uBY2MYy-QkU/TZA6kN5MhVI/AAAAAAAAAbE/LXS8mvUqlm4/s1600/wordpress-website-hacked-by-hackers-0.jpg” width=”384″ height=”218″ />Maintaining a blog or website is hardly all about SEO, traffic, linking, content and conversions. Those are all important things, and they do help reach a desired goal, but there is more to it. You have to keep in mind that your site needs to be safe and secure for all of the people that visit it. If it isn’t, no amount of linking will help and there will be few if any conversions.  It is also about keeping your information safe as well.

Website security and SEO are not directly linked , but website security can and will affect the rate of traffic  to your website. Users that don’t feel comfortable and safe using your websites will be hesitant to visit or to make a purchase from you.  This will eventually end your ability to turn a profit.

When a website is not secure, hackers can take advantage of the loopholes in the website’s security and use it for their own purposes. Several things they might try include:

* They can install scripts and malicious software
* They can steal important info about your site
* They can take customer information and defraud them

The last thing you want an innocent user whop visits your website winding up getting their computer infected with virus or spyware that came from your site. Your system could be hacked and actions taken in your name that could destroy your site and get you banned from search engines – some black hatters are not above linking stuff to your site to make you look bad or sending out spam from your website to get you in trouble. Although this is not as common a practice as it once was, there are still incidences of this happening on a regular enough basis to be monitored for.

If your site is identified as hosting malware, or even if you are suspected of it, search engines could ban you or place warnings next to your listings. That would lead to people not clicking on your site.  This is commonly seen when a display comes up stating that a ‘website may harm your computer’.. and let’s face it, no one is going to click on links that bear that warning.

This in turn means no traffic – all the work and money you put in on your website and all your SEO efforts will be ruined. All of this from an insecure website. This is a shame, because making your website meet security standards is not at all difficult.

Imagine that after working so hard to get top rankings in Google only to lose it all because malicious programs have infected your site. Be smart! Hire professionals to check your website’s security if you must. Don’t let your site get hacked and infect your customer or lose your rankings due to reports of suspicious activity in your name.