In this issue:
1. Importance of Internal Linking
2. WordPress Security
3. Links to my Kindle Books + My next Kindle Book
Hi Again
In this short newsletter, I’ve got just two items of news. Before that though, just a quick thanks to everyone who has liked, tagged and/or reveiwed my three Kindle books. I really do appreciate it. I have included links to my three Kindle books at the end of this newsletter.
OK, the news:
1. Importance of Internal Linking
This is an article I have wanted to write for a while, the problem was, I had no hard facts to back up what I wanted to say. For the last few weeks I have been experimenting with one of my own sites. This article tells you about the experiment and how my rankings have been affected by changing the internal linking on my site.
2. WordPress Security
WordPress blogs are targets of hackers. Matt Garrett has just released a course showing you how to lock down you blog using free plugins. Even if you are not interested in his course, you really must read his sales letter if you own (or intend to own) a wordpress site(s).
Read my Review of Blog Defender
3. Links to my Kindle Books + My next Kindle Book
- SEO 2012 & Beyond – Search Engine Optimization Will Never Be The Same Again!
- WordPress for Beginners – A Visual Step-by-Step Guide to Creating your Own WordPress Site in Record Time, Starting from Zero!
- CSS for Beginners - – Learn to Tweak Your Website Design
I have decided on the topic of my next Kindle book. You can find out by reading my Kindle Publishing Journey Facebook Page.
NOTE: You do not need to login to Facebook to be able to read this page, so there is no reason to avoid reading this just because you don’t trust Facebook 
OK, that’s it for this newsletter.
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About Andy Williams
Andy,
Just a heads up…
I’m guessing you are already on the case, but just in case your not – i’m getting a 403 forbidden error for creatingfatcontent.com
And I just tried sending this in an email to : webmaster@ez-search-engine-optimization.com – and it got returned as a failure notice.
Cheers,
Andy
Cheers Andy. I just got an email from my host saying the site has been under hack attack. Typical just as I am talking about this type of thing in the newsletter. I will most definitely be adding some new security once I get my site back.
As for the email, that one is no longer valid as I expired that domain. Send an email via one of the contact forms as those email addresses should have been changed to a valid one.
Speaking from experience, I had one html and a WP site hacked once and twice respectively in 2011. It has taken me about 2 years to get the crap pages cleaned out of Google. What a pain.
For a while I also used Securelive.net which is a paid security service. Securi is another one. Securelive recorded and stopped over 16,000 hack attempts in about 6 months.
I also use security plugins which I won’t mention here. A strong .htaccess file if you are on an apache server is a good first line of defense.
Also on WordPress sites, it is useful to use PHPMYADMIN to change the admin name to something else or setup your initial install with a different name than admin.
I have a username admin on all of my blogs. They all have a 45-character password that was randomly generated, and not saved anywhere. In addition, I have two-factor ID turned on for all of those admin accounts. None of those admin accounts have any access whatever to the blog. They are all dummy accounts, and I log several hundred attempted logins per day on each of them, even the ones that don’t get much traffic yet. Which is really interesting because I lock out the IP automatically for 2000 hours after 16 failed login attempts. I’m guessing the ‘bots are coming from everywhere, and switch IPs whenever they get locked out.
The real administrator accounts are named differently, and are unique for each of my sites. And also use two-factor ID.
And I’m looking into other ways to harden my sites.
BTW, I’ve noticed a new type of attack, which concerns me a bit. I’m getting login attempts with non-existent user names, also from several differ IPs (after lockouts). Which is how I know that the same people are coming from different IPs, because I’m seeing the same user names that look more or less randomly-generated. I’d love to know what that is all about.