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Business Website Security Tips
Whether it’s a surfer who just unintentionally entered a prohibited part of a website or those who hack into a system deliberately, your goal is to prevent it before it happens. Once a hacker gains access to a they can cause a devastating amount of damage to a business website. There is however, an awful lot that you can do to foil any would be hacker by taking steps to prevent them gaining access.
Good Web Designer With Their Own Secure Hosting
The best preventative action that you could take is to have a great web designer/builder/developer who places your website straight on secure reliable hosting from the start. One who will have tightened up your site security as they built the site. Unfortunately, many web designers don’t supply their own secure web hosting for clients and don’t feel that it’s their job to ensure that your website is secured. A good design company will be mindful of site security as they build as they won’t want either your site or their hosting compromised.
Use Digital Certificates (SSL’s)
If you’ve an ecommerce business website, you should use digital certificates. This helps to protect sensitive data when passed using a form. This could include anything from customer credit card information, to address and contact details. It’s important for business website owners to be able to assure their clients that their website is secure. A digital certificate goes a long way towards countenancing clients to trust a business is legitimate and entrust sensitive information while making a purchase on your website.
Stay Up To Date
Keep all website scripts up to date and make sure your web host is keeping their software up to date e.g. with versions of PHP and MySql on the web hosting. If you don’t you’re bound to have your site hacked! Good script and software makers release updates and patches as soon as a new exploit is identified – apply them as soon as you are notified about them.
Keep Regularly Updated
Some of the most important security procedures include methods to make sure a Web site’s forbidden pages are inaccessible to anyone who lacks authority to view them. Never leave script config files as writable and avoid using scripts that must have 777 to function.
As criminals constantly devise new ways to elude modern security, security procedures are constantly being updated to ensure that the latest version includes protection against these new security threats and risks. It’s the business website owner’s duty to make certain that their security is up-to-date. This makes the correction of such problems, if they arise, simpler.
A business website owner should also regularly change all administrator passwords and not make passwords too easy to guess. It’s often astounded me when asked to work on a website to then be told the password I need is ‘test’ ‘or sitename’! Never use dictionary words as your passwords and never use names. Instead use a mix of upper and lower case letters plus numerals.
Link Building Services That Work For Your Business
When a web site has been designed and launched everybody starts thinking about how to get links from other web sites and boost their Page Rank (the Google system for putting a value on a web site and the content contained in the site). There are so many different viewpoints currently circulating that it could be said that there is some confusion on the Internet as to what link building services actually work and what things should be avoided. Many people just storm ahead without giving too much thought and planning to this essential site element that they are missing out on a great opportunity to improve both the number and relevance of inbound links pointing to their web site.
The web site structure and site design policies play an important part in any link building campaign and also the relevance of sites that link to you are all part of a successful campaign. Some careful planning needs to go into how the site is constructed in the first place but if you already have a live site on the Internet and feel that it is too late to consider this, have a look at the existing structure and see if any improvements can be made to the navigation of the site so that visitors can reach all the available pages fairly easily. Try not to hide important pages in obscure places but imagine you were visiting your own site for the first time and ask yourself if you could really find everything quickly if you did not already know it was there?
Another big factor to consider is broken links within your own site and missing or removed or changed pages. There is not much point getting loads of links to your own web site if there are a stack of broken links or missing pages within your site content. Web site visitors have quite short attention spans and their imagination needs to be caught within the first few clicks. Try to add interesting and up to date content to the pages with some sharp high resolution images for nice effect.
One way links will always be more beneficial than these link exchange programs that end up giving you loads of so so quality links and require you to have a messy looking links or resources page to cater for providing outgoing links. To gain a good number of one way inbound links then have a look around at the many web directories that offer free and paid submission opportunities. There are some great site linking offers available so make sure you evaluate them carefully and concentrate on relevance.
Link Building Services That Work For Your Business
When a web site has been designed and launched everybody starts thinking about how to get links from other web sites and boost their Page Rank (the Google system for putting a value on a web site and the content contained in the site). There are so many different viewpoints currently circulating that it could be said that there is some confusion on the Internet as to what link building services actually work and what things should be avoided. Many people just storm ahead without giving too much thought and planning to this essential site element that they are missing out on a great opportunity to improve both the number and relevance of inbound links pointing to their web site.
The web site structure and site design policies play an important part in any link building campaign and also the relevance of sites that link to you are all part of a successful campaign. Some careful planning needs to go into how the site is constructed in the first place but if you already have a live site on the Internet and feel that it is too late to consider this, have a look at the existing structure and see if any improvements can be made to the navigation of the site so that visitors can reach all the available pages fairly easily. Try not to hide important pages in obscure places but imagine you were visiting your own site for the first time and ask yourself if you could really find everything quickly if you did not already know it was there?
Another big factor to consider is broken links within your own site and missing or removed or changed pages. There is not much point getting loads of links to your own web site if there are a stack of broken links or missing pages within your site content. Web site visitors have quite short attention spans and their imagination needs to be caught within the first few clicks. Try to add interesting and up to date content to the pages with some sharp high resolution images for nice effect.
One way links will always be more beneficial than these link exchange programs that end up giving you loads of so so quality links and require you to have a messy looking links or resources page to cater for providing outgoing links. To gain a good number of one way inbound links then have a look around at the many web directories that offer free and paid submission opportunities. There are some great site linking offers available so make sure you evaluate them carefully and concentrate on relevance.