10 Essential Tools & Resources for keeping your Website Secure
If you are looking for the best business tools and resources to secure your online business then you are in the right place! Below are the top business tools and resources I use pretty much every day to secure my online presence. These tools helped me find out what the problem was and figure out what I needed to fix my website after having been hacked in 2018. Here’s Our Story.
Sucuri
UpdraftPlus
Google Commands – Site:
WPEngine
WordFence
Quttera
Ubersuggest
Login Redirect
Know what files are related to WordPress on the server
Google Search Console
Sucuri
Sucuri will help you monitor several aspects of website security. The report tells you if the site software is outdated, blacklisted, Low to high risk, and shows the specific vulnerabilities.
If your site is blacklisted and infected with malware it needs immediate attention. Web authorities are blocking traffic because your website is unsafe for visitors.
Go to website sitechecheck.Sucuri.com and type in the website address.
Call Hit-the-Web Marketing to restore your website if you have already been infected. Call us before it is infected or hacked. If you DIY run Sucuri after you have taken all necessary measures to rid your website of malicious codes.
UpdraftPlus
The UpdraftPlus plugin will help you back up your website for easy retrieval should anything go wrong.
What can go wrong? When updating the many components of WordPress, you may find that the website is adversely affected. Conflicts occur since each plugin adopted for functionality is coded by different developers. This can create conflict with the way they interact with one another. You don’t know this will happen until you update. You can spend time in WordPress knowledgebases.
Hosting Provider WPEngine
One thing I cannot live without is WPEngine hosting. They focus on hosting WordPress websites. Ever since our website was hacked, read our story, we made the executive decision to move to this platform and we haven’t looked back.
As we grow our online business assets, we need to choose hosting companies that are based on quality over cost.
In my experience and opinion, Godaddy is spreading itself thin and not good at hosting as they were when we first started using them over 10 years ago. It’s insanely cheap but you have to do everything yourself to ensure things are done right. They simply provide the tools. Nothing is monitored or installed for you when you purchase a product from them. And sorry to say their documentation for DIY is non-existent. If you buy a malware package through them, if you receive a report that the website is flagged for malware, you then have to create a ticket. IT can take up to a week for them to remove malware.
WordFence
Wordfence is a WordPress plugin that helps you set up a firewall for your website. What does that mean? It monitors every time a hacker tries to log in to your website. Guessing the username and password. It allows the security manager to see where the attacks are coming from and fend them off in several ways.
The free version provides
The paid version provides
Login Redirect
This WordPress plugin allows you to choose a different path for people in your organization to login to. Why do you want to do this? The default path to login to a WordPress website is /wp-admin. Knowing this, as a hacker, gives them an advantage and closer to hacking in.
Search Engine “site:” Command
Go to your browser and type in Site:www.yourwebsite.com. The search engine result page will show you the title and description of the pages and posts. In our case, the titles and descriptions of every page had Chinese characters.
The site: command is helpful to see how many website pages are indexed by the search engine you run it on.
Quttera
Quttera is a free online tool that scans websites for malware. It will help you find the files that are malicious and determines if your website is blacklisted.
Ubersuggest
Ubersuggest is a tool by Neil Patel. This tool diagnoses erroneous backlinks and phantom URLs.
Has Google Ranking been demoted?
google search console, google analytics,
One tool we created is our Website Security Checklist. Download here.
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