| It is very easy to find that your website has been | | | | will be nothing visible to you when you use your control |
| de-indexed by google and marked with a beware sign | | | | panel follow the steps below to protect your website |
| due to the malicious actions of hackers and | | | | from attack. |
| spammers. Here are five things to do to make sure | | | | 4. Sign your websites up at Google Webmaster Tools |
| your website is always indexed, in good standing and | | | | and visit your dashboard every day if possible. If |
| ready for visitors. | | | | Google has found adverse activity on your site it will |
| There are two main hacker activities that can affect | | | | be clearly flagged up there. |
| the average site owner | | | | 5. If you get any hint that your website may have |
| 1. If your website publishes in HTML a hacker can gain | | | | been hacked or affected with badware, visit the stop |
| access to your web hosting control panel and upload | | | | badware site - which really was not very helpful for |
| reams of spammy links in hidden text. Readers will not | | | | the average webmaster - probably very easy for |
| see them but the search engines will and they will | | | | hackers to understand, but the content did not tell me |
| de-list your web pages. To avoid this, you need to | | | | how to identify Trojans or malicious software on my |
| change the permissions to read only and change them | | | | site |
| back to 'edit' whenever you need to amend the web | | | | 6. Check your website health at badneighborhood.com, |
| copy. | | | | which has a very useful free tool to scan the links on |
| 2. If you have a Wordpress Blog, make sure you | | | | your website, and on the pages that your website is |
| disable the facility where blog users can register | | | | linking to, and flag possible problem areas. All you do is |
| themselves. Go to 'settings' - general and you will find | | | | type in the URL of the home page and the results |
| two tick boxes under the membership heading. The | | | | appear within 90 seconds. These will flag up any sites |
| first is Anyone can register. Untick this. The second is | | | | that could possibly be involved in search engine |
| Users must be registered and logged in to comment. | | | | spamming. You may not be aware of these sites: for |
| Untick this as well. The result is that new users will not | | | | example, you could link to a respectable site but they |
| be allowed to hack into your site, but you will not be | | | | may have links with a site involved in the adult or |
| restricting those who want to lave legitimate | | | | pharmaceutical fields, and thus harm your website's |
| comments on your website. | | | | position. |
| 3. Whether your website publishes using HTML or | | | | Make these steps a part of your regular website |
| blogging software, a hacker can also upload malware | | | | owner's routine and you will have taken vital steps to |
| or badware on to a web page or blog post and there | | | | protect your website from hackers. |