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Popular 404 to 301 WordPress Plugin Injecting Cloaked Spam Links for Search Engines

August 17, 2016 at 4:19 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Popular 404 to 301 WordPress Plugin Injecting Cloaked Spam Links for Search Engines

If you use the WordPress 404 to 301 plugin, you will want to remove it, or at the very least update it.  Users discovered that the plugin is injecting paid links that are only visible to search engines.  So a site owner visiting their site would not see anything amiss, but checking it via a […]

WordPress or Squarespace: Which CMS is Better for SEO?

March 30, 2016 at 4:00 am PST By Brian Hughes

WordPress or Squarespace: Which CMS is Better for SEO?

Just how much does your web platform affect your SEO success? WordPress devotees have long claimed that one of the best reasons to select WordPress is the myriad of SEO plugins available for the content management system. The popular Yoast SEO plugin, for example, offers advanced onsite optimization, including page content, image titles, XML sitemaps and meta descriptions. Then […]

WordPress Plugin to Easily NoFollow Links

March 17, 2016 at 4:40 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

WordPress Plugin to Easily NoFollow Links

Google’s recent announcement warning bloggers to nofollow any links they are compensated for in any way, including when those links are in reviews in exchange for free products, has once again reminded bloggers and site owners that it isn’t that easy to quickly nofollow some links via WordPress. Many WordPress users are stuck going into […]

New WordPress Plugin to Create Facebook Instant Articles

March 8, 2016 at 5:20 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

New WordPress Plugin to Create Facebook Instant Articles

Facebook has announced that Instant Articles will be available to all publishers next month, on April 12, 2016.  And to increase the number of publishers getting on board with Instant Articles, they have announced their own WordPress plugin to make articles Instant Articles friendly. Instant Articles is similar to AMP in that it creates an […]

WordPress Plugin Update Sent Admin Credentials & Installed Backdoor

March 7, 2016 at 6:31 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

WordPress Plugin Update Sent Admin Credentials & Installed Backdoor

Do you use a semi-popular WordPress plugin called Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM)?  If so, you will want to stop everything and change ALL your user passwords, roll back (or use the latest release) of CCTM, as well as patch a list of files compromised thanks to the new plugin user who installed a backdoor and […]

5 Plugins to Make WordPress Mobile Friendly Without a Mobile Theme

May 5, 2015 at 4:06 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

5 Plugins to Make WordPress Mobile Friendly Without a Mobile Theme

Being mobile friendly became more important last month after Google began giving webpages a boost in the search results for sites that were mobile friendly when someone is searching from a mobile device. If you haven’t quite undertaken a redesign for an older WordPress theme, but are looking for a “stop-gap” solution to make your […]

WordPress XSS Unpatched Zero Day Exploit Discovered; Disable Comments Immediately

April 27, 2015 at 10:08 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

WordPress XSS Unpatched Zero Day Exploit Discovered; Disable Comments Immediately

A new exploit in WordPress was disclosed today, revealing that an XSS attack can be made through comments on a WordPress blog. There are examples of hackers attempting to exploit this in the wild, so the threat is definitely a significant one to webmasters who allow commenting through WordPress. From the Sucuri Blog: If your […]

How to Disable Comments in WordPress Temporarily or Permanently

April 27, 2015 at 9:40 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

How to Disable Comments in WordPress Temporarily or Permanently

If you have ever needed to disable comments on an active WordPress blog, you have probably discovered it is easier said than done.  While you can turn off commenting for all new posts in WordPress in the “Settings -> Discussion” section, it only applies to new posts and pages, it is not retroactive to old […]

Many WordPress Plugins With XSS Exploit, WordPress SEO, All in One SEO & Google Analytics by Yoast Affected

April 21, 2015 at 4:50 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Many WordPress Plugins With XSS Exploit, WordPress SEO, All in One SEO & Google Analytics by Yoast Affected

Many very popular plugins for SEOs, including WordPress SEO, Google Analytics by Yoast, All In one SEO and WPTouch.  WPTouch is particularly noteworthy as many webmasters used it to get their websites ready for Google’s mobile friendly ranking algo. Securi disclosed the issue and the known affected plugins. This particular exploit could be done on […]

Be Wary of Blocking Googlebot with “Bad Bot” Blocking Software, Including Wordfence

April 14, 2015 at 6:12 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Be Wary of Blocking Googlebot with “Bad Bot” Blocking Software, Including Wordfence

There has been a definite increase in the number of reports on webmaster forums, including the Google ones, and many of the reports involve the popular WordPress plugin Wordfence. Google has never published a list of IPs they crawl from, as those IPs can change at any time.  They also have bots used for specific […]

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