If you own or manage a website, security should be one of your top priorities. On a WordPress website, more plugins and extensions mean more opportunities for something to go wrong, and it’s your job to safeguard your hard work and your visitors’ personal information.
Protecting your website from threats doesn’t have to be complicated, and you don’t need to juggle a handful of security plugins to be successful. Why? Because Jetpack is the complete WordPress security solution.
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Comment Spam: Google Cares, and You Should Too
Community engagement is key to success for a blogger or online publisher, and that means comments. Allowing comments on blog posts encourages readers to express their opinions. It also provides an opportunity to increase your authority through conversations with inquiring minds and appreciative fans. Social media makes it easy to share articles, but there’s nothing quite like building a community on your own website or blog.
But with a growing audience comes comment spam. These aren’t words of encouragement from loyal followers or legitimate questions from interested readers. These are the comments that are a little too formal, don’t quite make sense, or are pushing payday loans and cheap prescriptions on your post about baking bread.
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