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Excerpt: Normally, as SEO’s we try to concentrate on getting the search engines crawl and index as much of the site as possible. However, occasionally there might be reasons why you would want to remove content from search engines. For example, if spammers have infiltrated your site and put links to their sites. There are a number of ways in which you can tell the search engine what to do. .htaccess – password protect the content you really don’t want search engines to index. (you have to do this before they index the content.) This is a strong method of protecting the content…

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Excerpt: In Part II we further examine how you can make your WordPress installation more secure including passwords,    login plugin to prevent brute force attacks, .htaccess to restrict access to wp-admin and more.  Part  I can be found here. Even if you have done everything so far, it might be easy for someone to get into your site if you have not secured it with a good password. Password Security The simplest way for an attacker to break in would be to attempt a brute force attack and guess your password. To be safe, you need to follow the standard advice: your password needs…

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Excerpt: Suppose that you already own a website that has been running for years and now you are looking to move up the rankings by designing a new search-engine-friendly web site. Or maybe you update several websites that have exactly the same content. Redirecting the web site can improve your ranking and save yourself time and money. In the last post we talk about domains and we mentioned that you should buy variations in the domain such the .co.uk the .com, .net, etc. in order to protect your company name. What are you going to do with all these domains? Some people…