{"id":3252,"date":"2008-06-22T04:50:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2009-03-10T07:09:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:09:06","slug":"wordpress-security-more-important-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3252\/wordpress-security-more-important-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Security – More important these days."},"content":{"rendered":"

As in most things…the guy who throws up WP blogs by the dozen is the last guy to check his own. (the cobblers kids have no shoes, et al).
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\nConfession Time:<\/strong>
\nEricOnSearch<\/a> is my blog. It also is my business site. My site disappeared from Google’s radar about a week ago. Still indexed, but did not rank. How do you know it is a penalty? Typically, it won’t even rank for search terms like ericonsearch …not many people going for that one! (grin)<\/p>\n

While search engine traffic is not the be all and end all for my blog, (most people who come there come from a post I have written or a comment on another site), since search engine work is a big part of what I do, getting no Google love is not cool. <\/p>\n

Time to Investigate:<\/strong>
\nWhat I found was that my site had been hacked. And neatly inserted into my footer file were about 300 links to meds, poker and porn! How do you find it? In your blog, you can go to either “presentation” or “design” and then click on “Theme Editor”. If you look at BOTH the “header.php” and the “footer.php”, but there is a SIMPLER method. Here is a link to an “outbound link checker”<\/a>. The reason that spammers spam is to get hidden links from your site to theirs. Go to this link checker and enter your url into it and run it… (Note: Eric Bramlett is working on a NEAT little plugin that will monitor OBLs and let you know via email before it becomes a search engine issue.)<\/p>\n

If you see a bunch of links to bad neighborhoods, then you have an immediate issue.
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\nEven if you don’t have an immediate issue, you still need to take action.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the best posts that I have found with an actionable list of what to for Word Press security is this one. I recommend taking the steps indicated here<\/a> and in following the needed links from this page to find more info. As it says in the comments, step #9 can cause some grief.<\/p>\n

An easier way for those not Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As in most things…the guy who throws up WP blogs by the dozen is the last guy to check his own. (the cobblers kids have no shoes, et al). Confession Time: EricOnSearch is my blog. It also is my business site. My site disappeared from Google’s radar about a week ago. 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