Keep Your Blog Secure!
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Technology–bane or blessing?
If your web site is ever hacked, it will feel like a huge bane. If not a curse.
I’ve had my blog hacked into twice now (and I’m wondering if my email was also hacked–if you get spam from me, IT’S NOT really from me. I’m looking into it.)
Listen, as authors, we need a blog. We absolutely do. (Read here for 9 reasons why .)
But if your site is ever hacked, and perhaps shut down or blocked by search engines–that is a BIG PROBLEM.
There are some simple steps to keep that from ever happening, and tomorrow you get a chance to listen to Cathy Perkins, the WordPress Wizard, talk about some of the things you have to know to keep your blog secure.
Since Cathy is “the WordPress Wizard,” we will be focusing on WordPress blogs, but much of what she says will cover blogs in general.
Here’s some of what we’ll cover:
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Why is security so important for your WordPress blog and on the internet in general?
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How to get started protecting your blog
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Why is hosting important?
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Is it important to do things in a particular order?
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Spyware? What is it and how can I prevent it?
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Her upcoming WordPress Security Strategies course
If you have a question, ask it here now. This is also the link with the call-in info and webcast to attend at 1pm Eastern, noon Central, 11am Mountain and 10am Pacific.
If you KNOW you need her course (only two classes, inexpensive)–as I do–and you want to find out more about it, go here.
