Unfortunately
it is all too true that spammers are doing their best to exploit every
corner of the internet no matter how difficult it makes it for the rest
of us.
<rant>
In my opinion there should be a special place in hell for them. They
give honest internet marketers a bad name. They have no consideration
for other people's time or hard work. I feel four letter words forming
in my mind now - so let's continue.
</rant>
You have no doubt seen postings on popular forums from people saying
that their Wordpress sites have been hacked. In a lot of cases their
blogs were destroyed because they did not take proper precautions.
Wordpress sites and blogs are great and very powerful. I use them all the time. I love Wordpress!
Unfortunately some of those people I mentioned above have found ways to
exploit some of these sites. Then they spam them or redirect them
to porn sites and many other things. If this has happened to you then
you know how maddening and damaging it can be.
Fortunately you can stop them in their tracks by plugging up potential
holes that these hackers exploit. There are many things you can do to
stop them from hurting your blog while at the same time making sure
that if they do somehow get through your security you can be prepared
to fix it in very little time.
There are many reasons blogs get hacked and you can change things both internally on Wordpress and externally on your server.
I will show you how to set it all up!
