Website hacks can be nasty, and if they ever hit your website, you know about it very well. Although it certainly won’t cheer you up, these attacks are something common, and once they do the damage to your website, you have to work hard again to bring back the organic traffic that you lost.
Unfortunately, there is no warning which would let you act immediately once the malicious action takes place. Well, you could use SERP rank tracking programs every day, but it doesn’t happen very often that somebody monitors their webpage performance that often. When your website is hacked, there will be a security warning message next to your Google search result. Sadly, when you notice that, your organic traffic is significantly lower at this point. What can you do to avoid such a situation? Use these tips to increase your webpage safety.
Secure website connection – Secure Sockets Layer ensures that all the information passed between server and browser are private. Make sure to add it to your protection list.
Create strong passwords – It sounds like no brainer, but statistics clearly show sad reality. Over 80% of people use insanely weak passwords. Always use different passwords for all accounts that you have, and make sure that they consist of special characters, capital, and small letters as well as numbers. The harder they are to guess, the safer you are. Also, don’t save them in a file; it’s much better to write them down on a piece of paper.
Run antivirus program regularly – Your PC will often get infected without you knowing about it. That’s why you should make anti-virus scans as often as possible. If you can, enable online protection, it will be useful more often than you think.
Keep the software updated – when your software is outdated, it’s much easier for hackers to perform an attack, because they know what the software weaknesses are, and how to overcome its protection.
Secure the network – weak WiFi passwords is literally like asking for getting hacked. Make sure to rename your connection name, and set a secure password, that isn’t easy to guess.
If you implement these methods, the chances that your webpage will get hacked are slim. Now that your computer is safe, you have to rank up the page again and rebuild the trust. Use the methods from the infographic, provided by Rankitor, to quickly and safely increase your website ranks: