10 Tips to Protect Your Website from Hacking and Google Penalties

by Tanya Gupta Digital Strategist

As an SEO professional, you wouldn’t ever want to receive this notification on your Google Search Console dashboard saying that: “This site may not perform as well in Google results because it appears to be in violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.”

Most of the webmasters use Google search console for monitoring their website traffic, optimizing the search rankings, and make informed decisions to improve the visibility of their website on the Google search engine. As a site admin, they also monitor and in some cases resolve server errors as well as security issues like hacking and malware and make sure that their website remains online without any interruption.

We wrote this article to help you out with the prevention tips for protecting your website against common security threats and Google penalties that can critically hurt your SEO or can also lead to a data breach.

As we are all aware of this fact that the hackers are proactively performing cyber-attacks and exploiting vulnerabilities in the websites – world over. Webmasters must also take appropriate actions to prevent against such parameters that can cause serious outages to their website.