Comments on: Check Your WordPress Security

By: Search Engine Analytics

Search Engine Analytics — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:30:34 +0000

Just found your blog today. Really like it – keep up the good work.Domain info more important than you think Domain information such as DNS, age of domain and even the expiration date are used to distinguish between illegitimate and legitimate domains.Why are google doing this? Simply to get all the factors they can to get an internal “trust score”.This “trust score” is used to eliminate “doorway” pages and spam in the search result.I’M not saying that it’s working perfectly – but they are doing a pretty good job.

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By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:21:41 +0000

Thanks Jamie,

I was wondering when you would re-surface, hope you had a nice honeymoon.

Good point on the security key – I think after the massive security problems people had with version 2.5 of WordPress, the emphasis they have on built in security increased… which is good!

Definitely a good idea to generate these codes too, because it’s not something you need to actually remember.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:33:55 +0000

Hi Kat, great article.

I Wish there was something smart I could add but you have covered it all.

All I would say is that the latest releases of WordPress (from 2.6) ask you to enter a security key in the wp-config file. This is used to generate a hash key that makes your site more secure.

See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Security_Keys