Agenda: WordPress Security How did your website get hacked? Security Best Practices Usernames and Passwords Themes and Plugins Hosting Updates Security Tweaks Search Engine Optimization (SEO) On-page SEO Off-page SEO WordPress SEO Links mentioned in the video: Password Generator: http://passwordsgenerator.net/ Dashlane: https://www.dashlane.com/ WordPress Free Plugins Repository: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ WordPress Free Themes Repository: https://wordpress.org/themes/ Premium Themes Resources: ThemeForest: https://goo.gl/GyexH2 Elegant Themes: http://goo.gl/DV2xbY MyThemeShop: https://goo.gl/PGIHe1 Premium Plugins Resources: CodeCanyon: https://goo.gl/MviDT7 Secure Hosting: SiteGround: https://wpcolt.com/go/siteground/ WordPress Backup Plugins and Services VaultPress: https://vaultpress.com/ BackWPup: https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/ Duplicator: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/ UpdraftPlus: https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/ Code Snippets Secure wp-config.php: https://gist.github.com/amElnagdy/30e5ec396d5b022fbd8cccc54a8afeab Disable Plugin and Theme Editor: https://gist.github.com/amElnagdy/65d2e487154824373a1b82aea2ea45ce WordPress Security Plugins Limit Login Attempts: https://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts/ WordFence Security: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/ iThemes Security: https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/ Sucuri:https://sucuri.net/ WordPress SEO Yoast SEO: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

1. WordPress Live Session 3
By Nagdy.net
Security and SEO

2. Agenda
▪ WordPress Security
•How did your website get hacked?
•Security Best Practices
•Usernames and Passwords
•Themes and Plugins
•Hosting
•Updates
•Security Tweaks
▪ SEO
•On-page SEO
•Off-page SEO
•WordPress SEO

3. How did your website get hacked?
Although there are many different ways in which a hacker can break into a
WordPress website, the main techniques can be grouped together into four
categories (based on a recent study):
• 41% were hacked through a security vulnerability on their hosting platform
• 29% were hacked via a security issue in the WordPress Theme they were using
• 22% were hacked via a security issue in the WordPress Plugins they were using
• 8% were hacked because they had a weak password

4. WordPress Security
Usernames and Passwords:
• Never use ‘admin’ as your username.
• Create a master admin account and don’t create posts with it.
• Use a strong password. Use a tool such as:
http://passwordsgenerator.net/
• Free Tool to remember your passwords:
https://www.dashlane.com/

5. WordPress Security
How to Choose
Free Themes and Plugins:

6. WordPress Security
Premium Themes and Plugins:
• Nulled?
• Where to get?
• How to Choose?

7. WordPress Security
Hosting:
• SSL
• Firewall
• Backups
• DDoS protection (Distributed Denial of Service Attacks)

8. WordPress Security
Backups
• VaultPress
• BackWPup
• Duplicator
• UpdraftPlus

9. WordPress Security
Secure WordPress:
• Stay up to date: WordPress 4.5.3 (Maintenance and Security Release)
• Secure your wp-config.php
• Disable Plugin and Theme Editor
• Disable WordPress Debug
• Limit login attempts
• Security Plugins:
• WordFence Security
• iThemes Security
• Sucuri
• Keep your Computer Safe!

10. Search Engine Optimization
On-Page SEO:
• Titles
• Headings
• URLs (Permalinks)
• Images (Names and ALT)
• Page Content
• Page Speed
• Internal Links

11. Search Engine Optimization
Off-page SEO:
The biggest off-page SEO factor is
the number and quality
of backlinks to your website.
How to Get Backlinks?
• Awesome Content
• Guest Posts

12. Search Engine Optimization
WordPress SEO:
• Yoast SEO
• Titles and Description
• XML Sitemaps
• Noindex, follow archive pages
• Tags overuse

13. What’s Next
WordPress and eCommerce