How to Remove Malware Warnings from Your Blogger Blog.

Does your blogger site inject with some sorts of malicious code? Are you facing weird notifications like “Danger Malware ahead” whenever you are trying to access your website? If yes then, your website is probably serving malicious codes. In this scenario, you should quickly scan your site for any kind of virus. If you are also looking for a way of getting your site clean from any kind of malicious code or virus then, you have landed to the right place. Today in this article, we will show you How to Remove Malware codes from Your Blogger blog.

What is a Malware?

It is a kind of software that tries to damage your computer, and computing systems. Malware or malicious software is planned to secretly access a computer device without even informing the computer owner.  The main intention of this software is to harm other computers and perform such actions which can damage data or disrupt systems.

Due to these high security risks, few corporate companies rely on cloud computing, which helps them to secure their confidential data from any kind of malicious injection.  

How to Remove Malware from Your Blogger Site?

To remove a suspicious code from your site, you have to identify which code or script is causing the problem. While access your site through Google Chrome browser, you may have seen a warning message like “Attention Malware detected”. This warning message helps you in knowing the problem. 

Take a look at the following screenshot which says that this site may harm your computer. If you go in depth, you would be able to see something like this, “Your site example.com contains some malware injection from example.com which is a known malware distributor”. Sounds fishy huh?

It means that example.blogspot.com is causing the problem because it is a known malware distributor and you have linked it on your site. The solution to this problem is a lot simpler than it looks you just need to remove that link from your site and everything would be back to normal. 

Go to Blogger.com >> Template >> Edit HTML >> Search for the URL of those websites which are causing the problem and just removed them from your coding. Once everything is done, press the Save Template button to finish the process. 

Congratulations: Now Chrome would not display warning messages to you or your visitors. 

Conclusion:

According to the estimated, daily thousands of websites gets compromised and you could be the next one. Therefore, it is essential to take all safety precautions before it gets too late. Since, Blogger is in the cloud so it cannot be hacked, but this does not mean it cannot be injected from malware. Thus, always download templates from reliable designers and sources.  Furthermore, make a habit of scanning the templates before you apply them onto your site. 

We hope this article has helped you in understanding how you can remove malware from your site. What are your thoughts and views about malware injection and detention, whether it is threatening or not? Share your views by commenting below.

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How To Protect Your WordPress Site From Being Hacked

WordPress is one of the most popular and preferred Content Management System, its known for being one of the most user-friendly website platforms available online. Due to it's popularity and growing users base, WordPress is a popular target for hackers and spammers.

Even through there is no way to completely protect yourself against hackers and security threats towards your WordPress blog/Site. A determined hacker will find his or her way into your site whether you like it or not.

All we can do is make it difficult for the hacker to have his or her way with your site. Most hackers will give up and look for an easier/unprotected site to hack since there are lots of wp sites now-a-days.

Today we will talk about tricks and plugins to keep your WordPress blog safe from hackers. If you follow the advice given below, a hacker will surely find it difficult to gain access to your site.

How To Protect Your WordPress Site From Being Hacked

Table of contents

Important Installation Settings

Delete the Default Admin Account

Rename your WordPress tables prefix

Update the WordPress Security Keys

Stronger Login Information

Remove the WordPress Version Number

Limit Login Attempts

Keep Things Up To Date

Use Well Coded WordPress Themes

Remove Unwanted/Unused Plugins

Back Up RegularlyFinal Words

Important Installation Settings

After installing the WordPress, you need to make sure the following changes are made, These are simple changes but it can improve your site security tremendously.

Delete The Default "Admin" Account

Never use the default "admin" as your username. When you install a WordPress blog, the first user is called “admin” by default. if you use this account hackers will have a easy way to hack your account since they already have the username. So, To avoid it you have to delete the default admin account.

You cannot delete the default admin account right away if you do not have a new admin account, So Create a new administrator account with a username that’s harder to guess.Now, Logout from the default admin account and Login using the new administrator account and finally,Delete the default account. ;)

Rename Your WordPress Tables Prefix

If you have installed WordPress using the default options, your WordPress tables have names like wp_posts orwp_users. It is thus a good idea tochange the prefix of tables (wp_) to some random value. To change the table prefix you can check this tutorial about how to change wp database table prefix.

P.S. If you're going to install wordpress for a new site you can change the default (wp_) prefix of the tables while installing WordPress.

Update The WordPress Security Keys

Adding WordPress security keys is an important security measure. They will make it harder to crack your password thus making it more secure. The other advantage is that if someone is logged into WordPress without your knowledge, they will get logged out immediately as their cookies will become invalid now.

The Security keys can be changed inwp-config.php which can be found in the root of your WordPress installation. If you have not added security keys to your wp-config.php file already, the code will look like this:define('AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('NONCE_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');Use the WordPress Key Generator to generate eight security keys for your WordPress blog, Once the code has been generated, you simply replace the code above with the unique generated phrases.

Stronger Login Information

Even if you removed the default admin account and changed the security keys it's still easy to hack your site if you're password is not strong. Without strong passwords your blog will be vulnerable to brute force attacks.

If you use secure passwords then the chances of successful brute force attacks become extremely low. You should therefore:Create a strong password which Include small and capital letters, numbers and different symbols to make your password not difficult, but impossible to guess.Change passwords frequently (every 2-3 months)Store strong passwords using a Password Manager Software Also Make sure you use lots of different passwords for your other accounts (like your gmail account, facebook, etc). It is nice to have just one single password and access everything through it, but imagine what happens if someone knows this password. He can basically access all your accounts.

Remove The WordPress Version Number

WordPress sites always place a meta tag in your website code that states the version of WordPress you are using, thus making it easier for hackers to determine if you are running an older version of WordPress that has a security hole.

We can easily remove the WordPress version number from your blog. To do this add this snippet to thefunctions.php file found in your WordPress themes folder.remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');

Limit Login Attempts

As we discussed hackers use brute force attacks to guess your login information by continuously trying new random usernames and passwords. we can mostly prevent this types of attacks by using a strong hard to guess passwords. But, The best way to prevent brute force attack is by installing the Login Lockdown Plugin.

This Plugin allows you to limit the number of login attempts from a given IP range. Once a user has failed a defined number of times, they will be logged out of your website for a defined period of time.

Keep Things Up To Date

Keeping your WordPress updated all the time is important, Because every version of WordPress has fix for security holes that have been identified in previous versions. So, it is a good idea to keep it up-to-date. Do not stick with old versions of WordPress because the longer a WordPress version exists, then the higher the chances are that hackers have found a way to break into it.

This not only apply for WordPress core, it also apply for WordPress themes and plugins. So, update the WP themes and Plugin along with the WordPress core.

Use Well Coded WordPress Themes

Even through you update your site regularly, if your WP themes/plugin doesn't have a secure code then it'll pose a security risk. So, it's better to use a theme from reliable source who updates the theme regularly, mostly it can be found only on paid themes. At the same time, it's not like we should never use a free WP theme. It's just that we have to check for few things before installing.

If you're going for a free WP theme or plugin, check for the following before choosing:Is it compatible with the latest version of WordPress?Does the theme has many downloads? (If it does, then it's popular, thus many people use it without any bugs)How long has it been since it's published and Has it been regularly updated? (the longer the better)Is the developer popular? (if he is then the plugin is most likely has secure code.)Does the developer offer support?(Optional since the theme is free but it's better if yes.)The above points can be also applied for premium themes and plugins. ;)

Remove Unwanted/Unused Plugins

It's better to remove unwanted or unused plugins. Some People keep plugins on their server even through they no longer use them. Since you don't use them any more there is a good chance you haven’t updated it recently, thus this may contains security holes and vulnerabilities. Hackers can gain access to your site via a hole they find or create in your unused plugin and there is an even bigger chance you do not notice the breach because you rarely use the plugin.

In a nutshell, it is a good idea to delete plugins which you are not going to use again.

Back Up Regularly

People ofter say "It's better to be safe than sorry", it certainly is true for wp sites. Even if we follow all the steps above, there is no guarantee that your website will not be compromised by hackers. That is why it is important to backup your website frequently. In-case if something unfortunate happens you can still restore your site using the backup.

Most hosting sites offer automated daily backup but it's always best to keep a back up externally on your PC or cloud drive. you can backup your site using backup plugins such as BackupBuddy, Backup and Restoration for WordPress.

Final Words

I've rounded up most of the basicsecurity tips for WordPress to prevent your site from hackers. There are still many other security tips to secure your WP site like limiting the file types on wp-content directory using .htaccess file.

I'm planning to cover some advanced tips in this topic some other time (Since, This article is already pretty long.). Following the above tips will give a basic security needed for your site.

Hope this article was helpful to secure your site, Let me know your views about this article, Feedbacks are always appreciated. :) Thanks...

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How To Fully Get Approve On Google AdSense Account

Here is How To Fully Approve Google AdSense Account in Very First Attempt.

Google AdSense is the best ads network company to monetize a blog or a website. Many other Ads networks are available in the Internet but AdSense is the first Ads network  that comes to mind of every Blogger to monetize money their blog or website and earn a lot of money.

Some people start Blogging for Passion or toBecome popular in world wide web. But most of the blogger start blogging to make money with AdSense. Some newbies blogger apply for AdSense without reading and knowing about the Basic Rules of AdSense and finally get rejected. So, in this article, I just shared my experience about the common reasons why AdSense reject you and How I Got Google AdSense Approved in first attempt.

How To Fully Approve Google AdSense Account

 

What is Google AdSense and how It is Better?

Google AdSense is one of the oldest and Trusted Ads publishing company. With the AdSense we can earn decent money if we do our work in right way. One of the biggest reason for choosing AdSense is that it’s paying rate is better than the all other ads network which is highly important for all bloggers and wapmasters. So, Google AdSense is number one choice among for among all other available ads network. Move forward to know How to Approve AdSense Easily.

Common Reason Why AdSense Reject an Application.

Insufficient content/Content Issues:  That means, your website/blog do not have enough text or enough text or enough number of content on them for Google specialists to review. Also, if your blog/website contains  copyright materials or other illegal material such as Hacking, cracking, pirated softwares etc content then your AdSense application will not approved. It will be rejected in second review.

Design/Layout Issues:  Blog/site with poorly designed or not complete design and too less number of content/pages is considered as under construction. So you must have a good design and which looks beautiful and good layout.

Important Pages:  It is mandatory to have some important pages such as About Us, Privacy policy, Contact Us page for Every blog or website. So, don’t apply for AdSense if your website or blog doesn’t have such pages.

Site does not comply with Google policies:  AdSense usually reject the blog which have no rich, unique and meaningful content, which are not getting organic traffic, Content which are not valued to users, Bad user experiences, poor designs. In addition, your blog may rejected for non-supported language.

How to Get AdSense Approved in First Attempt?

#1 Write High Quality, Unique & Attractive  Content:

First & Most Important point to be considered for Getting Approval of your blog or website by Google AdSense is Content of your blog.  Nothing new if i again say “Content is King” because it is mandatory for every good blog to have good quality and unique content. Always write high quality, attractive and Unique article which are valuable for your reader.

Write in your own word and never copy from other blog or from other source. You are thinking about length of article? Well, article with 500+ words considered as good so try to write in 500+ words. In my judgment, it is not possible to clearly describe any topic in 100 – 200 words.  If you are newbies in blogging then try to write 100% unique article in minimum 300+ words.

Always give “ALT” tag in images because every small things matter in AdSense Approving process.

#2 Use Top Level Domain:

Custom domain matters a lot. For a good blog, along with good article you must have custom domain to get AdSense Approved. Various websites (Such as Godaddy, BigRock etc) are available in internet which provides the facility to get domains name at low price. AdSense will never approve any blog or website with sub-domain. So, i recommend you to buy a Top Level Domain Name (.COM, .NET, .IN etc) for your blog.

#3 Must have About Us, Privacy Policy & Contact Us Page:

This is one of the most important  and plays major role in Approving AdSense. Ensure that your blog have AboutUs, Contact Us and Privacy policy page before applying for Google AdSense. All these page must be available on every web page of your site/blog.

About Us:  It describes about you and your blog/website. Without About Us page how the AdSense Team will know what your blog is about?. It will also make readers trust upon you.

Privacy Policy:  Privacy Policy is very Important and Google Team will check this page first whether your blog is comply with Google policy or not. The Privacy policy means that you are not a scam and give the sense of serous business and from where you are taking information and what will you do with your user’s information.

Contact Us:  Contact Us page tells Google AdSense team that we care for our customers, visitors and we are ready to help them. They can speak us any time about our content, blog and for many other reasons. So, ensure that your blog should have working Contact Us page.

There is zero chances of getting AdSense approval if your blog doesn’t have such page. So, before you apply for AdSense make sure your blog have above mentioned page. You can also add Disclamer and Terms & Condition page, however these are not necessary for Adsense approval but there is no loss in having it.

#4 Blog/Domain Age:

The domain age plays a very important role in Google AdSense approval process. As AdSense policy, your domain age should be minimum of 6 months.

Now tell me, can you wait for 6 months?

No ! right?

Don’t worry you can get AdSense before 6 months. How? because AdSense Team is not looking for 6 months old domain. However, If you fulfill AdSense criteria before 6 month means, if you have a well established blog/website with high quality content then AdSense may Approved for AdSense just in 2 months. So, before you apply for AdSense make sure your domain is atleast 45+ days old.

#5 No. of Content/Post:

This is one of the common question that comes to mind of every blogger or wapmaster. Number of post isn’t given officially it depends on the quality of content. Generally it have been been that many blogger enjoying making money with Google AdSense  with even 12-15 posts and there are numbers of blogger who are still rejecting with over Hundreds of posts in their blog.

According to my experience, make sure your blog have atleast 15+ High Quality post.

#6 Must not have any Copied Content:

This is the common mistake that most of the newbies blogger made. They just copy article from other blog and post on their blog,  apply for AdSense and finally got dis-approved. If you are doing copy paste then you are just wasting your time. Not today but tomorrow you will need to delete that content.

Never copy any article from other blog because Google AdSense team will not approve such blog.Always make all external link “nofollow“

#7 Traffic & Ranking of your Blog:

Traffic is not a big point in getting AdSense Approval but, tell me seriously, without traffichow will you earn good money with Google AdSense? Therefore traffic is most important in making money not only with AdSense, for other ads network too. If you’r getting traffic from US and Canada or getting good Traffic then there is more chances of getting AdSense Approved.

Google AdSense team isn’t not looking for blog which have good Page Rank or Alexa ranking for approving AdSense application. But if your blog have good ranking then it is PLUS point for you.

#8 Use Responsive Template:

The template that we apply on our blog plays major role to establish a good interface between user and blog. The template should must be responsive. If you are confused, not able to decide whether which template to use then I recommend you to use those template using which someone have got approved AdSense for their blog.

#9 Read AdSense Policy:

If you have still not read Google AdSense Terms & Condition the i strongly suggest you to read them line by line.

#10 Remove Ads of Other Ads Network:

If you have placed any other Ads such asChitika, Infolinks, Clicksor or anything, its time to remove them all.

Even Google AdSense allow you to use ads of other ads network along with them but its better to remove these all other ads and don’t put back until you get Fully AdSense Approved.

#11 Blog Title and Description:

This not not necessary for AdSense approval process but better to have a simple title and not too long description. So the AdSense team can easily understand what your blog is about. This is because during approval process AdSense team will manually review your blog.

#12 Add Favicon to your Blog/Website:

A favicon is an icon associated with a website or blog which Web browser use them in the URL bar, on tabs, and elsewhere to help identify a website visually.

A Fevicon will not give you AdSense but there is no loss in having it. If you replace blogger default Fevicon by own Fevicon to your blog or your website, it will increase uniqueness of your blog/website.

How to Apply for Google Adsense to get Approved:

If you have already applied before and got dis-approved by Google AdSense then don’t apply for again and again before resolving the issues.Apply for AdSense on www.google.com/adsense.Fill all your information correctly. You must enter website URL in www.YourSite.com not in Subdomain form.Second day, login to AdSense and create 300×250 ad unit code and place it in your blog in Sidebar (or anywhere which can be seen from all pages).Now don’t login and do anythings just wait for the Mails from Google AdSense Team.

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How to Improve Alexa Ranking in Short Time – 11 Secrets to Increase Alexa Rank 2016

How to Improve Alexa Rank 2016? Website’s Ranking is the big factor at the time when it Comes to sell direct advertisement right from your blog/website. After Google Page Rankwebmasters have given high importance to Alexa Ranking. Many webmasters judge your blog by just seeing your Alexa Ranking. Also most of the Advertisers contact blog owners for direct advertising which blog have good Alexa rank.

As i never  hide anythings from you, our visitors, so in this article i have just explainedwhat is Alexa Ranking and some important secret tips to improve or increase Alexa rank. For some newbies who entered in the world of blogging it becomes very hard to understand the concept of Alexa Ranking. If you’r one of them then this post will surely help you in boosting the Alexa Rank of your blog/website. Lets see.

What is Alexa Ranking?

Alexa is a Web Information Company byAmazon that maintains the ranking data of every website and blogs upon traffic and many other factors which is discussed in this article. Generally Alexa gets updated daily and main point of Alexa is lesser your rank better.

How Alexa Rank is Measured?

Some of we (Webmaster and blogger) think that Alexa ranks the blogs/websites according to the traffic that we receive on our blog but this truth isn’t sufficient. Alexa ranking not only depends upon the traffic but also depends upon Alexa Toolbar and many other factors which is the main part of this topic and posted below.

How to Improve Alexa Rank Quickly in 2016:-

#1 Claim/Verify Your site on Alexa:

Claiming your site on alexa gives full control over your site and it works like a verification process like Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools etc.. This will help others to know who is the owner of that site. So, it’s so important to claim your site at alexa.com and also it helps in ranking better on Alexa. Go here to Claim Your Site on Alexa.com.

#2 Add Alexa Rank Widget to your Blog:

Add Alexa rank widget to your blog, as Alexa counts only those hits which comes under their system. Also, if you are a blogger then you can’t ask to your every blog reader to install Alexa Toolbar in their browser but you can add Alexa rank widget in your blog.So there is no loss of having it.

#3 Install Alexa Toolbar/Extension:

Alexa rank counts the traffic that have the toolbar installed. So, it is good to install Alexa Toolbar in your browser and also Encourage your visitors to install/use Alexa toolbar to their browser. Here, you can Download Alexa Toolbar for your browser.

#4 Write a review about Alexa on you blog:

Alexa loves backlinks to them and good reviews. So, write a good review about Alexa Ranking on you blog and give a backlink toAlexa.com.

 

#5 Post Good Quality Content:

Nothing is new if we say “Content is Kind” because it is mandatory for all success blogger to write quality content. If you write quality content on your blog then other will automatically link back to you and then yourbacklinks will increase. Thereby increasing backlinks, traffic will increase which increases your Alexa Rank.

#6 Traffic from Bloggers & Techy guys:

This is the most important factor to be considerd that effects on your Alexa Rank this is because if you’r getting visitors who are blogger and techy guys then your Alexa Rank will increase quickly as all the blogger and Techy guys have Alexa Toolbar on their browsers.

#7 Commenting and Backlinking:

Comment on other blogs which are under similar niche to you blog and which have good traffic. This will create backlinks for your blog. Thereby increasing backlinks your Alexa rank will increase quickly.

#8 Share your Blog on Social Medias:

Various social networking websites are available. If you will not share your blog post in social networking site then how people come to know about your blog and what content are posted on your blog. So share your each blog post URL on Social media platform (e.g. Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc.) this will not only increase your blog traffic but also boost your Alexa Rank.

#9 Update your Blog Regularly:

This is the most important factor which helps in increasing the Alexa ranking. If you will not update regularly your Alexa rank will go down and then it becomes hard to bring back you alexa ranking again. So, I strongly recommend you to update your blog regularly.

 

#10 Submit your Blogs in Directories:

Many blog directories are available in the internet which stores blog in categories wise. Submitting your blog (or blog post) in directories will make popular inbound links. It will increase traffic and create backlinks to your blog. Thus, good quality backlinks play a major role in increasing PR and henceimproving Alexa Rank.

#11 Fix All Broken Links:

This is last and most important point to be considered not only in case of Alexa Rankingbut also in case of AdSense and other Ranking field. If your website/blog have many broken links then it surely affect on your Alexa Ranking, your ranking will go down. EvanAdSense will not approve the blog which have many broken links. So, you can use Free Broken Link Checker to check/find broken links quickly and ensure your blog doesn’t contain any broken links.

Conclusion:

These were the top 11 Tips to Increase Alexa Ranking. Some bloggers/webmasters increases Alexa Rank very quickly. The secretbehind this fact is to “Get Traffic from bloggers“. If you get traffic from bloggers and you follow above all factors that i have mentioned, then your Alexa Rank will surely improved.

  In the next article, I’ll share some secret and tips about AdSense that How I Got AdSense Approved in first Attempt? and How to get AdSense Approved Quickly. Happy Blogging, Enjoy & Stay Tuned.

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