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As we’ve mentioned in one of our blog posts, duplicate content is not good for the site’s health. When Google refreshes the Panda Algorithm, the search traffic of sites with duplicate content are affected the most. Webmasters with experience of creating search engine friendly sites by following the Google Webmaster Guidelines take care of content issues caused by the content management system. But they can’t identify scrapped content unless their site’s search engine traffic is impacted by a Google Algorithm Update. ...

Denial of Service (Dos) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have continued to prove to be one of the most challenging threats in modern times. While DoS has been around for some time, the methods used and practices of distributed botnets and automated scripts have continued to grow in sophistication. This paper survey’s three peer reviewed papers in the areas of Denial of Service Detection, Prevention and Mitigation. Each of these sections provide a rationale for the publication selected along with an overview of the proposed techniques and / or application solutions. Each section concludes by highlighting some benefits and drawbacks for each proposed technique. Additional supporting research has been carried out contribute to this overall paper as outlined in the references section at the end. ...

Amazon is one of the world’s most popular affiliate program. Until December 2016, the user had to place affiliate URLs manually in the blog post. The manual method of inserting affiliate URLs in the blog post is cumbersome. The user should first create affiliate link using the Amazon Site Stripe tool or with the AA dashboard. Then, they must use the WordPess post editor to insert the affiliate URL. Amazon, for the first time, has introduced a WordPress plugin that lets users find products on Amazon and create affiliate links for them from the WordPress dashboard. ...

Widgets are one of the most impressive and powerful features of the WordPress content management system. They make your website look attractive and user-friendly. Once you install WordPress, the CMS will add up to 10 different widgets to your blog or website. These widgets have limited functionality. Furthermore, they’re not customizable. Free themes may not add new widgets to your WP site. To add a new widget, you’ll have to install a new WP plugin. As a blogger, you should know that too many plugins may slow down your website. If the plugin is badly programmed, it will lead to high server resource consumption. ...

WordPress is the best blogging software and free content management system. It performs well on a powerful server. If the server has a poor configuration, WordPress may not provide the best experience. Websites hosted on an underpowered server suffers from heavy downtimes. The website takes ages to open on the visitor’s browser. This results in poor user experience. As the first impression is the best impression, visitors may not visit your site in the future. Search engines fuelled by Artifical Intelligence can distinguish between a user-friendly and a user-hostile website. ...

The Magazine Pro Theme from StudioPress is a powerful WP template for news and technology websites. It is based on responsive and minimal design. The theme lacks lengthy CSS and JS codes and it looks great. It has clean SEO friendly HTML tags. The small assets and search engine friendly nature of the Magazine Pro make it one of the fastest loading WordPress themes. The M Pro Genesis Child theme comes with valid Schema markups that help search engines identify various elements on your site. ...

You may have recently learned that blogging is one of the best ways to earn money online. Hence, you might be planning to quit your regular job and pursue a career in blogging or you have just completed your education and want to become a full-time blogger. Blogging is no doubt a great career option. If you become a successful blogger, you’ll make more money than a manager, team leader, chartered accountants, doctors, etc. ...

Themes and plugins are the most important parts of a WordPress website. If the code of the theme is not SEO friendly, your site will not perform well in search engines. Likewise, if the plugin has an erroneous code, it can lead to poor user experience. In worst cases, the problematic theme or plugin may cause high server resource utilization. The search bots will begin to ignore your site. If you don’t fix the problem ASAP, the site’s rankings will tank. ...

Authority is one of the best-selling WordPress templates of MyThemeShop. It has a large number of users. It is inspired by design of the website of popular blogger Matthew Woodward. Authority is a responsive WordPress theme that supports customization of almost every element you’ll find on it. It has amazing page speed. It is a premium template with great design and plenty of options. MyThemeShop Authority WordPress theme review Once you buy the theme, download its ZIP file and upload it to the wp-content folder of your blog. Extract the zip file and activate the theme from your WordPress dashboard. ...

If your website is not performing well in the search engines, it is either hit by Google Penguin algorithm or has loads of thin content. If you have built backlinks manually or used a software to do so, it is likely that your website is affected by the real-time Penguin update. Go through the following articles to learn why Penguin algorithm has struck your website. Google Penguin 4.0 Update Rolled Out : Biggest Seo Update Best Google Penalty Checker Tool For Sites Whose Traffic Is Down Why Blog Commenting Is The Worst Link Building Strategy? Guest Blogging Is Injurious To Your Blog And Online Career If your website has plenty of thin pages, the Google Panda or Phantom algorithm may have killed the traffic of your website. ...