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Hi All,

I just like to know whats the best way to protect wordpress website for getting hacked. I tried using Wordfence but nothing much happened. I m in shared Host and when ever there is a sign of attack my hosting company takes the site off which affects my site ranking a lot.  I m trying to keep all my plugins updated but still it happens . Like to know what other people do . I am open for Paid tool suggestion as well.

Thanks

Did you try Yoast SEO Sitemap or All in one. Yoast works fine for me. Never had any issue.

My website onlineplants.com.au. It's a shopping cart website.

I do have nearly 1200 images but none of the images are indexed in google webmaster? what should i do.

Thanks

Hi Mark,

1. Yes, You have to do that in Previous website from where you want the redirection to happen.

2.  Anything whichever works best for you. But Fix one and work on it. check in google which version of your site is indexed more by "site:www.domain.com" and "site:domain.com" . Its easy to decide this way.

Note: Since its wordpress you can do it in the wordpress settings back end.

Related Thread here :

https://moz.com/community/q/changing-url-from-non-www-to-www

HI Mark,

What CMS is your Previous version of site ? Is it wordpress or using PHP.  If you find yourself in a situation where you need to redirect a PHP web page that is outside your WordPress installation, you can use a PHP redirect.

PHP redirect.

You can redirect a PHP page by adding this line of code to the header:

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: http://www.yournewwebsite.com");

?>

Note that the “301 Moved Permanently” line is necessary to advise search engines that you are using a 301 redirection. You also need to ensure that this code is placed at the top of the page to ensure the redirection works correctly.

If you would like to use redirection within a theme or plugin you are developing, you can use the WordPress wp_redirect function.

Redirect a Page Using a WordPress Plugin:

One easy solution is Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin. The plugin allows you to perform 301, 302, 307, or meta refresh redirects. Redirection is a another great plugin that features 404 page monitoring. It will show you exactly what pages are generating 404 page errors and allow you to create 301, 302, and 307 redirects, for each of those links.

Hi Michael,

You are in right place. Use can use Moz Open site Explore ( OSE ) https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/  to find more about your competitors link profile . Read more here : https://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer.

Also you have other tool like "Ahrefs" - https://ahrefs.com/ which gives you even much sophisticated data .  Hope it answers your question.

Hi Jay,

Have you tried any of these : http://www.copyscape.com/originality-check/   or http://www.siteliner.com/ .  Hope it helps

Hi,

Yes, why not ? If you think that will help your users you should. Dont worry about search engine. Worry about your reader and what related links they need while reading your article. Dont just build link for the sake of Search Engines.

Hope it answers.

HI Kevin,

I also agree with what John said above. " depends on how you set up the .com."

In summary, there are no TLDs ( Top Level Domain .com. .org etc ) that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs ( Like yours ) that Google will default to a specific country and use that as an indicator that the website is more important in a specific geographic region. But all TLDs are treated equally.

Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/googles-handling-of-new-top-level.html

If you think your ranking is due to .com? then you need have clear competitors analysis metrics before switching from .com to .com.au . But For sure it will have impact.

Hi,

If you are using wordpress then you should be able to change that from setting >> General >> Site Address & Wordpress Address URL . Did you try that.

Hi,

Domain Authority is Moz’s calculated metric for how well a given domain is likely to rank in Google’s search results.

Domain authority is based on combination of all other link metrics—linking root domains, number of total links, MozRank, MozTrust, etc.—into a single score

It’s best to use Page Authority (PA) and Domain Authority (DA) as comparative metrics when doing research in the search
results and determining which sites/pages may have more powerful/important link profiles than others.

If a website has a much higher page authority than domain authority (like above) then it's a sign to me that it isn't that good. It'd be much better to have a higher domain authority ( or equal )  than page authority because it will show that the website has been up and running for a while.

So I see Domain Authority to typically be a much stronger candidate for results & Ranking. Hope it answers  your question.

HI Kevin,

I also agree with what John said above. " depends on how you set up the .com."

In summary, there are no TLDs ( Top Level Domain .com. .org etc ) that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs ( Like yours ) that Google will default to a specific country and use that as an indicator that the website is more important in a specific geographic region. But all TLDs are treated equally.

Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/googles-handling-of-new-top-level.html

If you think your ranking is due to .com? then you need have clear competitors analysis metrics before switching from .com to .com.au . But For sure it will have impact.

My website onlineplants.com.au. It's a shopping cart website.

I do have nearly 1200 images but none of the images are indexed in google webmaster? what should i do.

Thanks

Hi Mark,

1. Yes, You have to do that in Previous website from where you want the redirection to happen.

2.  Anything whichever works best for you. But Fix one and work on it. check in google which version of your site is indexed more by "site:www.domain.com" and "site:domain.com" . Its easy to decide this way.

Note: Since its wordpress you can do it in the wordpress settings back end.

Related Thread here :

https://moz.com/community/q/changing-url-from-non-www-to-www

Hi All,

Like to know is there any better way to do 301 redirection. My Client whose website name is Online Plants created with OpenCart. Over the period of time he added nearly 10,000's of products and now he is cleaning them ( by grouping similar attribute under one products) which is right way to do.

For example , Product A with different size ( X,XL,XXL ) previously had 3 product entry ( A - X, A - XL, A - XXL ) , now he is moving all of them under one. So while moving he is deleting the other two entry. Now whats the best way to inform google . Putting a manual 301 redirection for each and every product is impossible as there are more products. Whats the best way to go ahead on this.

Hi,

If you are using wordpress then you should be able to change that from setting >> General >> Site Address & Wordpress Address URL . Did you try that.

Did you try Yoast SEO Sitemap or All in one. Yoast works fine for me. Never had any issue.

Hi Butler,

Yes, I agree with what John said above.

In Addition to that you also need Social Media Marketing as your target Market in on College student/higher education. For new website like yours you can bring more users by PPC campaign and measuring it properly but for long term SEO will help.

Hi Donford,

Thanks for your reply. We already tried your suggestion but didnt work. All I am doing now is redirection 404 error to home page

Hi,

Yes, why not ? If you think that will help your users you should. Dont worry about search engine. Worry about your reader and what related links they need while reading your article. Dont just build link for the sake of Search Engines.

Hope it answers.