#WordPress Security

Japanese Keyword Hack on WordPress: How We Found and Fixed It

Japanese Keyword Hack on WordPress: How We Found and Fixed It

A real case from our own website: thousands of Japanese spam URLs in Google. How we confirmed the hack, cleaned up, returned 410, avoided the Removals trap and what the data shows.

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11 Steps for the Best WordPress Website: Basic Things to Do After Creating a Website on WordPress

11 Steps for the Best WordPress Website: Basic Things to Do After Creating a Website on WordPress

You’ve been working on your WordPress website so hard, and now you’re ready to launch the brand-new platform to the audience. Or you hired an expert web design agency and are pleas…

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5 Things You Need to Know Before Using WordPress

5 Things You Need to Know Before Using WordPress

What do you know about WordPress (WP)? Oh, we can guess! Most users, even those who are far from web development, call it “content management system (CMS) number one around the glo…

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WordPress security from real cases

Most hacked WordPress websites are not targeted personally. Bots scan for outdated plugins, weak passwords and forgotten admin accounts, then inject spam pages, redirects or malware. Often the owner only notices when strange results appear on Google or traffic drops.

Under this tag we share how to recognise a compromised site, how to clean it and remove spam URLs from Google, and the hardening steps that keep WordPress safe: updates, backups, access rules and monitoring.

Site already hacked, or want to prevent it? See our WordPress security service and WordPress maintenance plans.

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