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Tuesday, 24 June 2014

6 Ways to Secure your WordPress site from Malware

1. Update! 
Most of the common hacks/injections happen because of outdated WP or plugin. WordPress has a very strong community and as soon as a vulnerability is detected, it gets plugged. 
2. Delete the ‘admin’ account – Make it harder for the hackers!
WordPress lets you give administrator access to other user accounts. So, instead of using ‘admin’ username use some other unique username.
3. Check your file and folder permissions
File permissions set to 777 or 755.
4. Hide your wp-config.php
This is another file which is most vulnerable to attacks and by default will be located at your_host/wordpress/wp-config.php. You can move it to the root directory i.e your_host/wp-config.php because WordPress automatically checks the root directory for this file if it doesn’t find it at the default location.
5. Use trusted sources for themes and plugins
Beware of pirated themes and plugins, they usually contain malware or spam bots which at best will hamper your site performance.
6. Connect to your server securely
Use sFTP or SSH instead of FTP. Use SSL whenever possible. HTTPS is most preferred and secure way of transacting online.

Monday, 23 June 2014

How to host the Primary Domain from a subfolder (.htaccess)


RewriteEngine on 

# Change example.com to be your main domain. 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com
# Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain. 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirectory
# Don't change the following two lines. 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 


# Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain. 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdirectory/$1 

# Change example.com to be your main domain again. 
# Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain 
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subdirectory/index.html [L]

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Factor that affects google search engine ranking

Domain
1) Domain age.
2) Exact Match Domain.
3) Country TLD extension.
4) Sitemap
5) Contact Us
6) Site navigation
7) Related quality back links from high authority site.

Page 
1) Key words in title tag.
2) Key words in description tag.
3) Key words in heading H1 (Use only once in one page)
4) Article Content ( recommended: 500+ words)
5) Article key words density (2.5-5%)
6) Page Loading speed ( 0.5-1 sec/ 1 mb)
7) Latent Semantic Indexing Key words ( e.g Best Hair Gel = Good/Top Styling Gel/Wax )
8) Duplicate Content.
9) Image Optimization.
10) Content Updating (daily/weekly)
11) Grammar & Spelling.
12) Outbound Link Quality. 
13) Quality/numbers of internal links.
14) Broken Links.
15) Reading Level.
16) Affiliate Links. (If too many)
17) SEO like numbering listing format in the article.
18) Image indexing description (alt="i love xxvmon")

Traffic
1) Organic click through rate will increase serp.
2) High bounce rate is not very good.
3) Direct Human Traffic will influence serp. (Bot traffic doesn't affect serp)
4) Interaction (Number Of Comments)
5) Users browsing history/bookmark.

Social
1) Number of tweets from high authority twitter users accounts.
2) Facebook likes doesn't affect much because it cannot be detected.
3) Facebook shares influence ranking because they function as backlinks.
4) Pinterest.