WordPress is a fantastic publishing platform for virtually any website and very popular amongst SEO’s due to its ease of management, SEO friendliness and promotion of content generation.
The problem with using such a popular sand easy to use platform however is the ease of which it can be hacked which can have a disastrous effect on your rankings and traffic. Here are six quick and easy things you can do to help secure WordPress before that happens to you.
For a more detailed look on how to add to the security of your WordPress install go to http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
1. Make sure your WordPress installation is up to date.
An obvious one, but ensuring you are always using the latest version of WordPress will keep your site patched with all the latest fixes, including security holes, that users within the community have found and resolved. As well as keeping your site secure, each update generally includes some new functionality so you’ll have some new things to play with also. It’s worth keeping a backup of your files, folders and database files before you update as, trust me, sometimes an update doesn’t always go smoothly.
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