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Google+ accounts and search engine rankings

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googleplusGoogle Plus Accounts and your search engine ranking

One way of quickly giving your search engine ranking on Google a little boost is to make sure that your website is linked to your Google+ account. This will help to confirm that your website is genuine, push it up Google’s search rankings and even add your profile picture to your search listing. It all helps to add that personal touch.

If you are on one of our managed website contracts then just send us a link to your Google+ account and we will make the change for you at no extra charge. If you are managing your own website then we have put a code example below, so that you can do it yourself.

If you are outside of contract, but we host your website and you want us to do it, then expect the bill to be no more than 15 minutes of our time.

Code example:

  • Add the following between the <head> and </head> tags, substituting appropriately
  • <link rel=”author” href=”Google+ account link”>
  • Test it works with Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool

If making this change yourselves then you do so entirely at your own risk. Website changes should only be made by an experienced website developer.

Kind Regards
Firefly IT Solutions Ltd

 

WordPress is under attack

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WorldIn the words of the BBC:

WordPress has been attacked by a botnet of “tens of thousands” of individual
computers since last week, according to server hosters Cloudflare and Hostgator.

See more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22152296

For those of you that use us to manage your websites then you are perfectly safe as we use non standard usernames and strong passwords on all sites that we setup. If you administer your own website then we recommend that double check all of your user accounts.

The other side of the coin is that if you are running a computer that isn’t fully patched up-to-date, or is even on an obsolete operating system then your computer may well be a part of the Botnet doing the attacking. You need to make sure that all of the products that you use are fully security patched and not just Microsoft applications or OSX updates for Mac users. The Microsoft Windows and apps are generally the easiest to deal with as they are all updated from a single place e.g.. Windows update. You also need to individually patch all of your other applications, from Java to Flash to Quicktime to iTunes and everything else that you use. This is simply good practice and is something that any internet connected business needs to manage on a regular basis.

Uptodate Antivirus and Antimalware applications will help to protect you, but they are only one part of your defence against the people that wish your systems harm, or may wish to use them for nefarious purposes.

If in doubt then please do get in touch and we will help you to make sure that your business is protected.