Category Archives: Security

The SEO Implications of Getting “Hacked”

Websites are increasingly being hacked on autopilot. Intruders are using scripts to crawl the web and infect sites using outdated or insecure software. Including plugins, add-ons, and themes. Security is necessary for web marketing to be successful, and SEO is particularly vulnerable. 1. Spammy Content Intruders typically want to use a website’s existing authority in […]

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5 web development techniques to prevent Google from crawling your HTML forms

Google has recently decided to let it’s Googlebot crawl through forms in an effort to index the “Deep Web”. There are numerous stories about wayward crawlers deleting and changing content through submitting forms, and it’s about to get worse. Googlebot is about to start submitting forms in an effort to get to your website’s deeper […]

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Keeping track of multiple passwords

RSA Security’s newest password management survey found that one of the greatest threats to corporate security is the weak password. Employees that change their too often, or have to juggle too many passwords for login to various services, are likely to choose weak passwords or even write them on a scrap of paper near their […]

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