WordPress Security Plugins

WordPress is a great content management system. 18.9% of the web is powered by WordPress. If you are running a WordPress powered blog or website than security should be your primary concern. We should take WordPress blog or site security seriously, otherwise We have to suffer. To secure your WordPress Powered blog or site here are the top 10 WordPress security plugins to keep secure your blog.

1. Better WP Security
Better WP Security is great security plugin. This plugin is a champion among top 10 WordPress security plugins. This plugin is full featured plugin to keep yo

ur blog secured. It can perform various essential security tasks such as Remove the meta “Generator” tag, Change wp-content path, Removes login error messages, Remove RSD header information, Completely turn off the ability to login for a given time period and many more. This a must have plugin for all WordPress blog and sites.

2. Wordfence
Wordfence is great plugin among top 10 WordPress security plugins. Wordfence is a must have plugin for WordPress blog. This plugins is a free enterprise class security plugin. This plugins performs like an all-rounder. It includes. a firewall, virus scanning, real-time traffic with geolocation and many more. Some key functions include Two Factor Authentication, scans for malware and phishing URL’s, Monitor your DNS security for unauthorized DNS changes and there are several awesome feature included in this plugin.

3. BulletProof Security
BulletProof Security is a recommended plugin among top 10 WordPress security plugins. Installing this plugin will make your WordPress security rock solid. It does all security task in .htaccess file. This plugin can protect your WordPress website against XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking attempts. There are whole bunch of features boasts in this plugin to secure any WordPress blog.

4. All in One WP Security & Firewall
This plugin is new among top 10 WordPress security plugins but it can secure your blog in an easy way. As the name says, this is a All in one security plugin. It provides User Accounts Security, User Login Security, Database Security and File System Security. It boasts feature like Blacklist Functionality, Firewall Functionality, Brute force login attack prevention and many more.

5. Limit Login Attempts
Limit Login Attempts is must have plugin for WordPress. It can prevent your site from brute-force attacks in a smart way. Limit Login Attempts blocks an IP address from making further attempts after a specified limit. This plugins is among best top 10 WordPress security plugins.

6. AntiVirus
Antivirus plugin is great plugin for WordPress. This plugin is a lightweight and easy to use plugin to protect your blog from installing against exploits, malware and spam injections. This plugins daily scan your blog for viruses.

7. Sucuri Security – SiteCheck Malware Scanner
This plugin is a from leader among Online Security- Sucuri. This plugin is an awesome plugin which checks your blog for for malware, spam, blacklisting and other security issues like .htaccess redirects, hidden evil code and many more.
8. Secure WordPress
This plugin is a great plugin among top 10 WordPress security plugins. This plugin can do many security related tasks such as Removes error-information on login-page, Removes Windows Live Writer, Blocks any bad queries and many more.

9. Verelo Blog Monitoring Plugin
This plugin is new plugin among top 10 WordPress security plugins. This plugin boasts features like blogs up-time monitoring, ensure your blog is free of malware and viruses, Instant notifications by SMS, Phone or Email when something goes wrong and many more.
10. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
This plugin protects your blog from spam comments and registration. This plugins adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all.

Tips to Make Your Email Marketing

email marketing hasn’t totally caught up with the mobile revolution. The majority of emails are still not optimized for mobile viewing and interaction. Buttons are small. Subscribers are forced to enlarge the screen and move things around to see the email. It’s just clunky.

But there is hope. The future is now for mobile-friendly email marketing. Here are seven tips to ensure your next email campaign is optimized for a mobile device.

1. Earn subscribers’ trust.
When it comes to mobile, who the email is from becomes that much more important. What’s the first thing you see when scanning your inbox? Yup. The “From Name.” If subscribers don’t recognize who the email is from or don’t trust the sender, they are less likely to open the message.

If they don’t open your email, the rest of these tips don’t even matter. Earning that trust starts well before the first email. It also is not limited to email. Trust can be earned or lost on social media, offline and through other more traditional channels.

Related: How to Write Better Email Subject Lines

2. Really think about the subject line.
Along with the From Name, the subject line is critical. While your audience may not know who you are, a compelling and creative — or a direct and descriptive — subject line can be the difference between an open and a delete or ignore.

3. Don’t forget about the preheader.
Sometimes called the snippet text, the preheader is the text that’s above the header image. On smartphones especially, it’s the first bit of text that’s viewable.

Instead of something boring like, “To view this email in you browser …” try putting some unique text there. Test clickable calls to action. Maybe even try using some humor.

4. Ensure your call to action is big and obvious.
This is an important step, and not just for mobile-optimized emails. Make sure your call to action is big, bold and obvious.

When it comes to smartphones, real estate is at a premium. Subscribers will not search for your call to action. And sometimes smaller links are more difficult to click on, especially depending on the size of a person’s fingers.

Your call to action has to be in their faces. Make it clear, big and simple to click.

Related: 4 Ways to Get Customers to Open Your Emails

5. Consider responsive email design (RED).
Ensuring the user experience is optimized regardless of platform and device is not a new concept on the web. But creating responsive-designed emails is something that is just starting to pick up steam.

This is becoming more important as more people own smartphones and use email as their main “app.” Creating a responsive-designed email template is not technically easy to do, but it’s something your email service provider or marketing automation vendor should be able to assist you with.

6. Include images.
The majority of email clients on a smart phone — including the iPhone’s native Mail app — have images enabled by default. Sure, a person can go into the settings and turn them off, but most people don’t take this extra step.

So with images on by default, it’s important that you think about what imagery you’re using in your email marketing messages. Whether your audience is B2B or B2C is irrelevant. Images matter.

So instead of just dropping a random image into your email, consider using something that’s linked to the content. Put in a fun image, a different image and an eye-catching image.

7. Be aware of unsubscribe placement.
I believe strongly marketers should learn the love the unsubscribe button. But with mobile devices, it’s important to consider where your unsubscribe link is in relation to other links in your email. Too often I’ve seen the unsubscribe link placed dangerously close to the main call to action. One wrong move and a loyal subscriber has opted out.

Above all, the best advice when it comes to ensuring your emails get opened on a smartphone is to test — test all of the tips mentioned above. After all, your audience is not my audience. Best practices are those that are best for your subscribers.

Mobile markup languages

Request headers from Google’s mobile crawl will always use the HTTP “Accept” header to explicitly tell your site that it should return documents with mobile content types, if available, rather than standard HTML. If your site respects this standard, your site will return mobile content correctly to our mobile crawl.

In some cases, Accept headers are ambiguous. For example, text/html is the content type for both cHTML, which is appropriate for certain types of mobile devices, and HTML, which is generally intended for desktop computers. Google’s mobile crawl does its best to appear to be a mobile device, so if your site tries to detect mobile devices in other ways in a case like this, it will probably work for Google’s mobile crawl as well.

Google’s mobile crawl will send a user-agent header that contains the string “Googlebot-Mobile”.

Google AdSense

Buying ads doesn’t affect your site’s performance in Google search.
Google’s advertising programs are independent of our search results. Search results display on the left side of our results page; ads appear on the right and in the colored box at the top.

Participation in an advertising program doesn’t positively or negatively affect inclusion or ranking in the Google search results. Inclusion and ranking are free services; we don’t accept payment to expedite inclusion or improve a site’s ranking for particular keywords.

Webmaster Guidelines

Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the “Quality Guidelines,” which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise impacted by an algorithmic or manual spam action. If a site has been affected by a spam action, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google’s partner sites.

Design and content guidelines
Technical guidelines
Quality guidelines
When your site is ready:

Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/.

Submit a Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages.

Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online.

Design and content guidelines

Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.

Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map has an extremely large number of links, you may want to break the site map into multiple pages.

Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number.

Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.

Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.

Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn’t recognize text contained in images. If you must use images for textual content, consider using the “ALT” attribute to include a few words of descriptive text.

Make sure that your <title> elements and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.

Check for broken links and correct HTML.

If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.

Review our recommended best practices for images, video and rich snippets.

Technical guidelines

Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.

Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page.

Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This feature allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since we last crawled your site. Supporting this feature saves you bandwidth and overhead.

Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled. Make sure it’s current for your site so that you don’t accidentally block the Googlebot crawler.

Make reasonable efforts to ensure that advertisements do not affect search engine rankings. For example, Google’s AdSense ads and DoubleClick links are blocked from being crawled by a robots.txt file.

If your company buys a content management system, make sure that the system creates pages and links that search engines can crawl.

Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines.

Test your site to make sure that it appears correctly in different browsers.

Monitor your site’s performance and optimize load times. Google’s goal is to provide users with the most relevant results and a great user experience. Fast sites increase user satisfaction and improve the overall quality of the web (especially for those users with slow Internet connections), and we hope that as webmasters improve their sites, the overall speed of the web will improve.
Google strongly recommends that all webmasters regularly monitor site performance using Page Speed, YSlow, WebPagetest, or other tools. For more information, tools, and resources, see Let’s Make The Web Faster. In addition, the Site Performance tool in Webmaster Tools shows the speed of your website as experienced by users around the world.

Quality guidelines

These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here. It’s not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn’t included on this page, Google approves of it. Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit.

If you believe that another site is abusing Google’s quality guidelines, please let us know by filing a spam report. Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, so we attempt to minimize hand-to-hand spam fighting. While we may not take manual action in response to every report, spam reports are prioritized based on user impact, and in some cases may lead to complete removal of a spammy site from Google’s search results. Not all manual actions result in removal, however. Even in cases where we take action on a reported site, the effects of these actions may not be obvious.

Quality guidelines – basic principles

Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines.

Don’t deceive your users.

Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you’d feel comfortable explaining what you’ve done to a website that competes with you, or to a Google employee. Another useful test is to ask, “Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn’t exist?”

Think about what makes your website unique, valuable, or engaging. Make your website stand out from others in your field.

Quality guidelines – specific guidelines

Avoid the following techniques:

Automatically generated content

Participating in link schemes

Cloaking

Sneaky redirects

Hidden text or links

Doorway pages

Scraped content

Participating in affiliate programs without adding sufficient value

Loading pages with irrelevant keywords

Creating pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware

Abusing rich snippets markup

Sending automated queries to Google

Engage in good practices like the following:

Monitoring your site for hacking and removing hacked content as soon as it appears

Preventing and removing user-generated spam on your site

If your site violates one or more of these guidelines, then Google may take manual action against it. Once you have remedied the problem, you can submit your site for reconsideration.

Google Apps Sync

Welcome to Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook®! Here’s how we suggest you get started:

Install Google Apps Sync

Install, sign in, and import data

Follow these instructions to install Google Apps Sync, create a Google Apps profile in Outlook, and optionally import data from your old Microsoft® Exchange profile or PST file. Problems importing?

If you imported data

See what gets imported (pdf chart)
Outlook setup after importing

If you imported data, follow these links to see exactly what data gets imported and to finish setting up your Outlook profile with a few things that didn’t get imported.

See what’s different about Outlook

Outlook Mail
Outlook Calendar
Outlook Contacts
Outlook Notes
Outlook Tasks
Follow these links to see what’s different about using Outlook with Google Apps Sync, including Google-specific features, what’s not supported that might be with your previous service, and what works differently.

Make Google Apps your default Outlook profile

Make Google your default profile

Make Outlook open your Google Apps profile by default, without asking you to select a profile each time it starts (applies only if you still have your old Outlook profile around).

Check out the Google Apps web interface, too!

See what gets synchronized (same pdf chart)

If you plan to also access your account from the Google Apps interface (as well as from Outlook), open this chart to see exactly what data gets synchronized between your profile in Outlook and Google Apps on the web.

Gmail vs. Outlook
Google Calendar vs. Outlook
Google Contacts vs. Outlook
Google Docs vs. Notes
Google Tasks vs. Outlook
Also check out these links to learn important differences between accessing your account in Outlook vs. Google Apps, including what to set up in the Google Apps interface, and what’s not supported there.