WordPress Shortlink, WLW, RSD, and RSS Links

WordPress Shortlink, WLW, RSD, and RSS Links. WordPress adds a lot of stuff in the page/post head, some of which is totally unneeded. As plugins are added, more gets included, but that's for another article. This article takes a look at five items WordPress itself adds to the site; Shortlink, WLW, RSD, RSS Links and …

Website Scraper Bots

A website scraper is a tool used to extract the content of websites for offline browsing or other purposes. Sometimes these scrapers are only intended to gather data in a more useful place for the user, however scrapers can also be used for more devious reasons such as plagiarism. They are also known as  website …

WebsiteDefender Plugin for WordPress Security

The WordPress WebsiteDefender plugin is another of the older WordPress plugins revisited. I originally tested and reviewed this plugin in 2011 and again in 2013, so here's the results. The WebsiteDefender plugin and security service for WordPress offers to provide several tools to make your WordPress site or blog more secure. It will detect malware, …

VSF Simple Block Plugin for WordPress Security

VSF Simple Block plugin is an easy to use security and firewall plugin WordPress. VSF Simple Block blocks bad IP addresses, hackers looking for exploitable paths, hostnames, and browser agents. The plugin also keeps a log record of blocked activity. Although this is an old plugin for WordPress versions prior to WP4 it may still …

What is Webstatsdomain.com

What is Webstatsdomain.com? Site administrators are seeing broken links to their sites in Google Webmaster Tools reports and in 404 page-not-found logs. The source of these broken links is coming from this referrer. Is Webstatsdomain.com any good So what is this referrer with bad URLs doing to to our sites. Why is it saving bad …

Zemanta Plugin for WordPress

Zemanta, or as it is now called the Editorial Assistant by Sovrn, is a writing tool sometimes used by bloggers to find recommended content and images related to the article being written. You could consider Zemanta a simple research tool providing links to relevant content on other blogs. This article is a bit dated as …

Meta Keywords Outdated and Unnecessary

Are meta keywords outdated. This old meta tag has been outdated since at least 1999. The term was overused by webmasters so search engines stopped using meta keywords for ranking. Instead of using keywords today take advantage of the tags feature in content management systems. Meta Keywords Outdated So Don't Use Them Major search engines …

Ban Web Server Traffic

Web Server Traffic Should be Banned Opinions will differ about putting a ban on web server traffic. There are those who want their blogs and websites free from malicious activity, safe and secure for genuine valuable visitors. Then there are those who think there should be no restrictions on web traffic and activity (some even …

Htaccess Site Speed Impact

Does using .htaccess for security or redirection slow down the site"? The answer should perhaps not be a simple yes or no. We need to weigh the benefits of using .htaccess for security, redirection and site configuration against any performance penalties (or advantages). Once we understand how .htaccess works on our blogs we can make the decision how we will this extremely useful file.

Panopta.com Pest Bot

Checks.Panopta.com - nuisance bot Panopta.com calls itself "Uptime Management Software for Hosting Providers, SaaS Providers, IT Managers, and Website Owners".  Well, there's nothing wrong with the idea. If your website is critical to your business it's not a bad thing to get alerted if or when your site is offline. But Did You Subscribe to …