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Social Media Widget warning
Website Defender, a company specialising in website security, reported security vulnerability in one of the very popular plugins – Social Media Widget.
If you are using the Social Media Widget plugin, make sure to remove it immediately from your website. The plugin is being used to inject not only spam into websites, but also malicious code.
This is a very popular plugin with more than 900,000 downloads. It has the potential to impact a lot of websites. The plugin has a hidden call to this URL: httx://i.aaur.net/i.php, which is used to inject “Pay Day Loan” spam into the web sites running the plugin. Continue reading
Negative SEO – Can it hurt your business?
Negative SEO is the latest “buzzword” that is dominating webmaster forums.
What is negative SEO? Negative SEO is the label given to certain actions aimed at hurting the rankings of your website. These actions could be initiated either by your competitors or malicious individuals determined to bring your site down.
Just as nasty gossip can be targeted towards any person, negative SEO can be targeted towards any website. Continue reading
Search Engine Optimisation Process (SEO)
Search Engine Optimisation is a process of improving congruency between page content, page title, page description, headings and pictures, so the search engines see it as more relevant to the search term (keyword) and therefore place it higher in the search results. It also involves improving web page popularity and authority. Continue reading