Author: wefightforsecurity

Have you ever written an article and had sources, but didn’t link to them? If you’ve done that, you’ve taken link juice away from your source. Link juice is when one site links to another site. Some search engines find linking to other sites as giving them a vote of confidence and raising their authority if your site has good authority in the eyes of search engines, which includes Google.

do not make a bunch of fake sites or pay for your links to be everywhere as bad link juice can hurt a site, just like good link juice from a well known source, can help boost your sites trust or authority with Google.

Why are links so important? Links is one way of saying, we like this person and lending some of your authority to that person. There are multiple types of link juice, which are all uniquely different but have the same underlying vote of confidence to the search engines.

What if I link telling search engines not to follow that link with no-follow?

No-follow is used for the purpose of linking to a source, but then saying to the search engine “hey, don’t follow that link”, which means under normal circumstances you keep your link juice and the search engine does not transfer anything to them, positively or negatively.

we hope this post on links and authority has helped you. We will be posting again soon.

We discovered that WP-Doctor, a plugin in the WordPress repository contained malicious code. After confirming the plugin had malicious code in it, we contacted WordPress Security and they took it down.

It is important to mention that they noted they couldn’t find anywhere in the code where the malicious code was activated, so they don’t believe it was hurting the sites, but took it down until it was repaired.

We had great hope that the company would fix the issue, and everyone would be happy. Sadly, it was suspended in September, 2018 and has had no updates as of November 10th, 2019.

We suggest that you delete the plugin WP-Doctor since it still isn’t patched.

If a site doesn’t update a plugin does that cause harm? A lot of times plugins don’t disclose security updates, but hackers still know if they were insecure. Some plugins are currently being hacked with malware advertisements, also known as malvertizing. Updating your plugins can avoid this.

If the website has to follow California’s CCPA, there could be a fee of $750 per user, even if the users weren’t damaged by the intrusion.

Thankfully, we had a positive conversation about the CCPA with one of the people who has helped write the laws. After our talk, 7 new changes that we had discussed in detail were changed to help businesses and became law.

If you don’t have to follow the CCPA, Google safebrowsing still remembers for 3 months which sites have been hacked. This makes it very hard to get seen online. Even after the 3 months are up, it can be hard to get the website visibility back, as Google remembers when your site was last hacked.

Thankfully, you can protect your sites for free from this particular issue by updating your plugins.