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Those days are gone when the SEO mean the huge numbers of backlinks. There bloggers can easily get high rank and appears top on the search engine result pages for any keyword by spamming thousands of backlinks. Now SEO is totally different old strategies didn’t works now and search engines prefer quality of the backlinks instead of quantity. One among few characteristics of quality backlink is the Domain authority of the site from where link is coming. So when ever trying to get backlinks, make sure and make it habit, get it from sites with higher domain authority, not only from the high PageRank sites.

Read: 10 Common Link Building Mistakes and Ways To Overcome Them

Being a blogger, you may know well regarding the importance of domain authority. Domain authority is one of the parameter which the Search engines like Google or Bing consider when displaying results for a specific search term or query. Websites or blog with higher domain authority appears high on Search Engine Result Pages; get more organic traffic and ranking.

There are many ways to improve Domain authority of your blog or website; one is to get backlinks from the sites with High domain authority. On the scale of 1 – 100, high domain authority means 40 or more, while some SEO expert says that websites with Domain authority more than 50 will pass link juice.

You might also like: 120+ High PR DoFollow ORG Backlinks for SEO in 2015

During my practice of making quality backlinks, I got mixture of dofollow and nofollow backlinks from high PageRank high domain authority sites. Here is the list of high domain authority sites which accept comments, articles or content which will ultimately gives you quality backlinks. The links are arranged according the niches which including the Technology, Health and Fitness, Education, Blogging, SEO, Real Estate as well as General websites.

01. List of High DA Sites for Backlinks from General Niche

URLs	Domain Authority	Dofollow /Nofollow
http://www.ireport.cnn.com	100	No follow
http://www.voices.yahoo.com	100	Do follow
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/	97	Do follow
http://www.slashdot.org	95	Do follow
http://www.newsvine.com	94	Do follow
http://www.change.org	92	No follow
http://www.buzzfeed.com/	92	No follow
http://www.Examiner.com	91	No follow
http://www.dailykos.com	90	Do follow
http://www.instructables.com	90	No follow
http://www.storify.com	90	No follow
http://www.alameda.patch.com	89	No follow
http://www.purevolume.com	85	No follow
http://www.luckymag.com	82	Do follow
http://www.rebelmouse.com	82	Do follow
http://www.medium.com	82	No follow
http://www.theepochtimes.com/	80	No follow
http://www.buzznet.com	79	No follow
http://www.sparkpeople.com	78	Do follow
http://www.kiwibox.com	78	No follow
http://www.linkup.imanet.org	73	Do follow
http://www.bubblews.com	68	No follow
http://www.ourmidland.com	64	Do follow
http://www.victoriaadvocate.com	62	Do follow
http://www.realitysandwich.com/	60	Do follow
http://www.sportsblog.com	55	Do follow
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk	54	Do follow
http://www.storeboard.com	48	Do follow
http://www.lerablog.org	48	No follow
http://www.paramuspost.com	47	Do follow
http://www.groundreport.com/	46	Do follow
http://www.nat-ti.com	43	No follow
http://www.broowaha.com	43	Do follow
http://www.rockdalenews.com	43	Do follow
http://www.sportsrants.com	45	Do follow
http://www.katyperrypurr.com	44	Do follow
http://www.creativetimes.co.uk	44	Do follow
http://www.community.covnews.com/	42	Do follow
http://www.51ideas.com	41	Do follow
http://www.deer-digest.com	40	Do follow

02. List of High DA Sites for Backlinks from Business Niche

URLs	Domain Authority	Dofollow /Nofollow
http://www.nationofchange.com	85	Do follow
http://www.benzinga.com	78	Do follow
http://www.customerthink.com	67	Do follow
http://www.business-opportunities.biz/	67	Do follow
http://www.evancarmichael.com	64	Do follow
http://www.wamda.com	63	Do follow
http://www.savethestudent.org	63	Do follow
http://www.biznik.com	60	Do follow
http://www.accountingweb.co.uk	58	No follow
http://www.knoji.com/	55	Do follow
http://www.recruitingblogs.com	53	Do follow
http://www.ms-jd.org	52	No follow
http://www.kscripts.com/	51	Do follow
http://www.exploreb2b.com	42	Do follow
http://www.wamda.com/	41	Do follow

03. List of High DA Sites for Backlinks from Blogging Niche

URLs	Domain Authority	Dofollow /Nofollow
http://www.caringbridge.org	86	Do follow
http://www.topofblogs.com	69	Do follow
http://www.authorsden.com	67	Do follow
http://www.blogrollcenter.com	59	Do follow
http://www.superghostblogger.com/	56	Do follow
http://www.glipho.com/	40	Do follow

04. List of High DA Sites for Backlinks from Education Niche

URLs	Domain Authority	Dofollow /Nofollow
http://www.edublogs.org	87	No follow
http://www.academia.edu	85	No follow
http://www.schoolrack.com	60	Do follow
http://www.futureofeducation.com	50	No follow
http://www.community.eflclassroom.com	42	No follow

05. List of High DA Sites for Backlinks from Health and Fitness Niche

URLs	Domain Authority	Dofollow / Nofollow
http://www.ideafit.com	71	Do follow
http://www.blog.ideafit.com/	71	Do follow
http://www.wellsphere.com	66	Do follow
http://www.empowher.com	55	Do follow
http://www.healthynewage.com/	55	Do follow
http://www.fruitnfood.com	54	Do follow
http://www.lensaunders.com/	51	No follow
http://www.healthncure.net/	47	Do follow
http://www.medcheck-up.com/	45	Do follow
http://www.shanestrong.com/	45	No follow
http://www.medicalmingle.com	41	Do follow
http://www.healthmeup.com	40	Do follow

06. List of High DA Sites for Backlinks from Marketing Niche

URLs	Domain Authority	Dofollow / Nofollow
http://www.moz.com	93	Do follow
http://www.talent.adweek.com	90	No follow
http://www.hubspot.com	90	Do follow
http://www.socialmediatoday.com/	86	Do follow
http://www.kissmetrics.com	81	Do follow
http://www.crazyegg.com	79	Do follow
http://www.b2bmarketing.net	56	Do follow
http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com	40	No follow
http://www.exeideas.com/	40	No follow

07. List of High DA Sites for Backlinks from Real Estate Niche

URLs	Domain Authority	Dofollow / Nofollow
http://www.activerain.trulia.com	89	Do follow
http://www.trulia.com	89	No follow
http://www.realtreasure.realtytimes.com	75	Do follow
http://www.realtown.com	55	Do follow
http://www.blogs.realtown.com	55	No follow
http://www.realtyjoin.com	40	Do follow
http://www.lottocheatah.com	40	Do follow

08. List of High DA Sites for Backlinks from Technology Niche

URLs	Domain Authority	Dofollow / Nofollow
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com	82	Do follow
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com	82	Do follow
http://www.tech.co	76	Do follow
http://www.tech.pro	49	Do follow
http://www.e-junkie.info	44	Do follow
http://www.dokisoft.com/	42	Do follow
http://www.codedwebmaster.com	41	Do follow
http://www.techandtrends.com/	41	Do follow

09. List of High DA Sites for Backlinks from Women’s & Fashion Niche

 

URLs	Domain Authority	Dofollow / Nofollow
http://www.blogher.com	84	Do follow
luckymag.com	82	Do follow
http://www.cafemom.com	75	Do follow
http://www.modernmom.com	64	Do follow
http://www.shewrites.com	56	No follow
http://www.becomegorgeous.com/	54	Do follow
http://www.community.babycenter.com/	50	Do follow
http://www.mombloggersclub.com	49	No follow
http://www.mommysavers.com/	48	Do follow
http://www.bloggymoms.com/	46	Do follow
http://www.girlsguideto.com	45	Do follow
http://www.blog.wewomen.com/	45	Do follow
http://www.craftstylish.com/	42	Do follow

10. Others

URLs	Domain Authority	Dofollow / Nofollow
http://www.houzz.com	91	Do follow
http://www.venturebeat.com/category/games/	90	Do follow
http://www.community.martindale.com	87	No follow
martindale.com	87	Do follow
http://www.gameinformer.com	79	Do follow
http://www.frontiersin.org	77	Do follow
http://www.corephp.com	68	Do follow
http://www.hometalk.com	67	Do follow
http://www.speakingtree.in/	60	No follow
http://www.designshuffle.com	52	Do follow
http://www.homeclick.com	49	Do follow
http://www.azadnegar.com/	49	Do follow
http://www.bordersalertandready.com/	47	Do follow
http://www.melodyhome.com/	46	Do follow
http://www.legalhelp.org	45	Do follow
http://www.wood-furniture.biz	40	Do follow

Conclusion

So you have now a huge list of high domain authority sites to get valuable backlinks from. Few of these sites accepts comments, others allows you to upload content with backlinks. Although it may take time to cover all these sites, try first to take backlinks from the sites or blogs related to your own niche or category, sites with high domain authority and with dofollow link type.

 

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Being an owner of WordPress self hosted blog, you may know well about the importance of taking regular backups to maximizes the security of your WordPress blog and to have an extra copy of your blog in case if something goes wrong. Have a backup copy gives you sense of security and peace of mind as you know that you can easily recover you blog to its previous glory after an incident.

Read: Best Security plugins 2015

In this article, we are not going to discuss about what the backup are and what they do as they are and their functions are self explanatory but we here we are going to explore and review some of the best WordPress Backup plugins to make backup of your site and save your work.

Hundreds of free and paid backup plugins are there in WordPress plugin directory out of which we choose 0 5 best and reliable WordPress backup plugins each with its unique feature and pros & cons. Pick one of these Backup plugins and take backup of your WordPress site now.

01. VaultPress

If you are really serious about your blog security and ready to pay for the best Back-up plugin, VaultPress is the option. This plugin is come with all the features that are required for the backup of WordPress blog. All these option are of premium nature and easy to control through an elegant simple Dashboard.

The installation of VaultPress is just a matter of few clicks and once install, the plugin not only backup your WordPress blog’s files but also scan the files for any malicious code to give your site extra protection. VaultPress allows you to store the copy of your blog on cloud storage. You can set it to perform the backup of your blog and store it on the cloud storage each day

Now, for the credibility of this plugin, it is better to know that the plugin is developed by the founder of WordPress platform, Matt Mullenweg along with his team at Automattic.

Regarding the price, it is not just merely the plugin but it’s rather WordPress Backup service which is subscription based and you can start with VaultPress at the cost of $5 / month.

02. BackWPup

If you can’t afford the above mention Backup plugin, here is the best alternative, the BackWPup want to pay. BackWPup is the free plugin with the premium like features allows you to Backup your WordPress blog and store a copy at cloud storage, Dropbox, Google Drive, FTP or on your computer.

Well for most of the bloggers and small online business, the basic features of this plugin are enough to take the backups. You can schedule the plugin to take regular backups automatically depending upon the update frequency of your blog.

From installation to use, the plugin has a pretty simple user interface make it perfect choice for novice bloggers. Restoring the Backup copy of your blog is also simple and just a matter of clicks.

The above stated features are free but there is a paid upgraded version of the plugin available with lots of more tools to take extra care of your blog.

03. BackupBuddy

Developed by iTheme, a big name in WordPress security solution, BackupBuddy is the premium plugin of the choice for those who don’t want to pay regularly i.e. monthly base subscription.

Similar to the above stated WordPress backup plugins, BackupBuddy has the same features to take regular backups of your blog on daily, weekly or monthly basis and to store the backup files at cloud storage. It has too, very simple user interface allows both the novice and pro blogger to operate and maintain the backups.

So what’s different in this plugin? Why should you go for it? The feature which is unique to BackupBuddy plugin and love by most of the bloggers is it allows you to move your WordPress blog from your current hosting to the new one with no downtime meanwhile. The pages will be served by the backup copy of your blog. Moreover the plugin offers 1 GB free cloud storage to store copy of your backup file there.

BackupBuddy is a popular plugin come with real-time support and has discussion forum where the users of this plugin share their opinion, reviews and to help out each other

04. WordPress Backup To Dropbox

WordPress Backup to Dropbox, as the name suggests, is a free plugin that allows the bloggers to create backup of their WordPress blog and store it on the online cloud storage system Dropbox. You may know well about the Dropbox and probably have an account on this free leading and secure cloud storage service. The plugin being discussing here able the bloggers to take backup of the whole WordPress files including the database and store them online on the Dropbox. There is no any limit for how much time your files will be store there.

The plugins let you to take backups manually or schedule the backup process to take automatic backups of WordPress files on timely basis. The plugin gives you choice to create backup of specific files or directories and leave the other which you don’t want to be the part of the backup.

Regarding the price, WordPress Backup to Dropbox has comes in both free version and the paid one. Download the plugin from here and start using this plugin for free and decide later to have the premium version of this plugin.

05. Duplicator

Officially this plugin is not for the backup of your WordPress blog but creating backup is one if its feature. Duplicator is actually site migrating plugin used to shift the WordPress blog from current domain or hosting to another one, creating backup of WordPress blog is a bonus.

This 2 in 1 plugin is although not an ideal plugin to takes backup as it has many flaws like it would not let you take automatic backup schedule at specific time and is not easy to understand but still a good option to have this plugin for backup.

Conclusion

As you know the importance of taking backups of your WordPress blog, you may not ignore this part of your site security. The above discussed plugins, whether free or paid are best tools to save your time and work. Now what you have to do is to install one of them which best suits your requirement from the provided link and take initial backup of your site now or schedule them for later.

Well all of these plugins are on our experience and preferences, if you are using one with more features, please share it with us in comments, or let your fiends known about these backup plugins by sharing it with them.

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Installing WordPress isn’t an issue rather it is an easy step but the problem is to optimize your new WordPress blog performance, Security and optimize it for Search engines. Being as a serious blogger, you can’t stay relax just by installing WordPress but you have to take some other important measures to make your site secure, fast and optimized. So here we have compiles a list of 10 must do important things that you should follow after installing WordPress.

01. Change Blog Title and Tagline

The first most important thing to do after WordPress installation is to change your Blog title from default to your custom one. Blog title can be the name of your product, blog or business or simply the domain name. Along with the bog title change the blog Tagline as well. A Tagline explains what your blog is about. Try to have a descriptive short tagline for you new WordPress blog that is eye catching and self explanatory.

To change both the Blog Title and the Tagline, go to Setting and choose General from setting. Here you can see the textbox for Blog Title and Tagline. Change them accordingly.

 

02. Change Time zone, Site Language, Favicon and Site Logo

Other most important things that you should change before going online is the site logo, site icon or the Favicon, Site language and the time zone. Well the last three components of WordPress blog can be change easily from General Setting area. Just scroll down to see the Time Zone and change it accordingly.

Head toward the Site language then. By default WordPress blog language is English (United State) but you can change as you want.

Underneath the Site Language there is Site Icon option where you can upload a 25×25 PNG image to show as you site Favicon next to your site title in the browser.

To change the site logo, you need to edit the header.php file which you can find in the “Editor” section of “Appearance” tab or you can change the logo via your Theme Setting. Go to theme setting then find and replace the logo of you blog. Save all the changes.

03. Change Permalink structure

Permalink is the URL structure that will shows at the end of your domain after each blog post. By default the permalink structure isn’t much SEO friendly and has no readable words. It is usually in the following form

http://www.example.com/?p=123

It doesn’t seem pretty and has bad impact on SEO so you need to change it to both human and search engine readable form in order to make your on-site SEO strong.

To change the permalink structure, go to Setting and find Permalink. Click on Permalink and under the Common Permalink Setting you can see different Radio buttons with example in front. Check-in the Post Name or Custom Structure Radio Button so the URL structure of you blog post will have the post title in the URL.

Save the changes

04. Re-Look Reading Settings

After installing WordPress, you need to look at your blog’s reading setting and have to set it according to your preference. Reading option actually means what you want to display on your blog front page to your readers. By default the reading setting is set to the Latest post and the reader will get your latest published post on the front page. In case if you want to show your readers a static home page, you need to select it from reading Setting area.

To customize Reading Setting, click on the Setting tab and find the Reading section there. Here you can see radio buttons in front of Page Display options. Select Static Page from the given option and select a page which you want to be your blog’s home page from Front Page Dropdown list or a Posts Page.

From here you may also increase or decrease the Number of post shown on your front page. By default 10 posts are displayed on your front page, you can change it to a lower or higher number.

05. Delete the Default WP Admin Account

WordPress is easy to hack. One reason is simple User Name and Password. By default WordPress creates “Admin” as default username for the new installed blog. This can be easily guess by the hackers and then they try to get the password via online or offline password breaking tools. To make your WordPress Blog security strong, delete the Admin account and assign the Administrator privileges account other than Admin.

To do so, Login to your blog admin area with the default Username (that is Admin) and Password. Create an account with any other name. It can be your name but don’t make account with your blog title. Now assign Administrator rights to the new account. Transfer any exsiting post or page to the new administrator.

Log out from admin and login again with the new created Administrator account. Delete or change the role of the default admin account from Administrator to subscriber. Now, it will be hard to guess the Admin username by hackers.

06. Disable Post Revision

Every time you make a change and update your current post, the record is store in the form of post revision in Database memory. This could be an extra load on your Database, make your site slower and hold some memory. By default Post Revision is on which you should turn off after installing WordPress. To turn it off, go to Appearance click Editor, find and Edit the wp-config.php file. Add the following code

define ( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

Now the post revision option is turned off and it will not take any further memory. But if you want to have this feature turn on with limited Revision record only, then try this code in the wp-config.php file

       define( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS', 3);

This code will store only 3 recent post revision in Database.

07. Delete Unnecessary Themes

By default there are some built-in themes provided by WordPress that most of the blogger don’t use. Delete them as you install the WordPress. Also delete any other theme which you have uploaded but now no longer use them. Well this is not just to save your disk space rather it can be a serious security issue if you have unused and unnecessary themes there in the WordPress theme folder. A theme that isn’t in use still needs updates regularly and if you don’t update these unnecessary themes, it can be a security loophole which the hackers can use to attacks on your WordPress blog.

Deleting the theme isn’t requires any technical knowledge rather it’s very simple. Just go to Appearance and Click on the Themes. Hover over the theme and Select Theme Details. In the new pop-up window, Click on the Delete option and you have done.

08. Upload your Own Theme

A serious blogger know the importance of look and feel of blog. The design of your blog really influence on the readers interest in your blog and also on the search engine ranking. Therefore you should upload your own theme after installing WordPress rather than using the WordPress in-built themes or low quality free theme. There are some sites which offers Premium magazine WordPress theme for free on monthly basis to their subscriber. One such site is ThemePacific. Subscribe now to ThemePacific to get one such premium WordPress theme for free right in your inbox.

09. Improve WordPress Security

Security issue remains at the top while using WordPress blogging platform. Hackers tend to hack WordPress blogs due to vulnerabilities found in the WordPress core files and coding. But don’t worry; there are many techniques and some handy plugins available in WordPress plugin directory to make your WordPress blog secure. So form the day first when you install WordPress, make it secure by applying these WordPress security improvement tips or by installing one of these best plugins which make your WordPress blog secure with ease.

10. Install Some other Handy Plugins

Not all the features and functionalities that is required for professional blogging is available in WordPress. However WordPress is the best Blogging platform but it don’t have in-built SEO feature or the Cache feature. It even doesn’t have an option for social media sharing of your content. But thanks to the large community of developers, there are thousands of plugins available at WordPress Plugin Directory for each of the said features and functionalities. To add such features and functionalities to your blog, you need to install some handy plugins right after you install WordPress. Here is a list of some useful WordPress plugins that you need to have in order to add handy features to your blog.

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Thousands of WordPress sites got hacked daily as they are constantly attacked by hackers. Larger firms and corporate companies pay a large amount of money for their site security audit but what should the average blogger do to make his/her WordPress blog secure? Don’t worry; in our previous post, we have discussed 10 easy tips make your WordPress blog Secure, but some steps were difficult enough to perform by an average WordPress blogger or novice user. Here we’ve come up with some best WordPress security plugins to take care of your blog security with ease.

These handy WordPress plugins offers an array of features to make your blog secure against any malicious activity, malware and threats. If you’re serious about your WordPress blog security, you’re at right place.

01. WordFence Security Plugin

In the list of Top 5 security plugins for WordPress, WordFence is on the top of our list because of its ultimate features which not only make your WordPress blog secure but also make it fast up to 50 time (as claim by the developers of this plugin) by using Falcon Caching engine.

WordFence make your site secure by doing a deep scan of your blog’s source code of all the files, plugins & themes and match it with the WordPress Official code for themes, core and plugins to know if there is any malicious code there. In case if the plugin found any malicious code or malware in the source code or in the server, it will notify the webmaster immediately you via email notification.

The plugin also let you to set 2-factor authentication through SMS. This prevents your blog from Bruteforce attack. Both free and paid premium version of the plugin are available.

Some handy features of this plugin include:

1. Improved Login security using 2-Factor Authentication
2. Let you block traffic from specific IP, Region or Country
3. Let you block fake traffic and bots with its firewall
4. Scan the hosting server as well for any malware
5. Instant Email Notification in case of any Threat.
6. Make your Site faster using Falcon Caching System.
7. Scan and repair any damaged file
8. Multi-site support let you monitor and manage multiple sites from on Dashboard.
   Download WordFence Security Plugin

 

02. Sucuri Security Plugin

Developed by Sucuri Inc, a trusted name in web security, Sucuri Security is the plugin of choice for WordPress used by many bloggers not only to make their blog safe and secure but to track all the activities either safe or malicious by users or visitors. The plugin keep the record of logins and changes to your blog so you can easily identified that what happened in case if something go wrong.

When installed, this plugin is actively scans and protect websites from malicious attacks like bruteforce attacks, DOS attacks, Zero Day Disclosures attacks and many more. In addition to this, the plugin also keep a record of all the activities on your site in a log file stored in Sucuri cloud. The plugin scan your site against various blacklist incorporated from Sucuri Labs, Google Safe Browsing, McAfee Site Advisor and Norton.

Other useful features of Sucuri Security plugin include

1. Track users / visitors activities and keep them in a log at Secure Cloud
2. Scan Core WordPress files for integrity and abnormalities.
3. Website firewall
4. Malware scanning
5. Blacklist monitoring
6. Security activity auditing
7. Instant Email notification

Note: Not all of the features listed above are free; some availed only on premium version. Download Sucuri Security Plugin

 

03. iThemes Security Plugin

Formerly known as Better WP Security, iTheme is the most robust WordPress security plugins that make your site safe by protecting it from 30+ different angles. The plugin has many small but unique features to keep your site secure such as hiding the username that the hackers can use in bruteforce attack, hiding login page, 2-step authentication, password expiration and Google reCAPTCHA, all to keep your blog safe and secure from hackers and spammers. Both free and premium versions of this plugin are available; here are some robust features of iTheme WordPress Security plugin:

1. Easy user interface make it easy to use for Novice bloggers
2. Two-Factor Authentication Using Authy or Google Authenticator
3. Monitor and record the activity of users to track the changes in WordPress files
4. Import / Exports Security Setting to save time if you’re using iTheme on multiple WordPress blog
5. Helps you generate strong Password and to set expiration for existing password
6. Uses Google reCAPTCHA to protect your site from spam comments
7. Hide the login and admin pages
8. Remove user or any other information that hackers can use in bruteforce attack
9. Scan your site for any malware and vulnerabilities
10. Helps you to take regular backups of your database
11. Prevents Brutforce attacks and ban the IP which try brutforce attack on your blog
    Download iTheme Security Plugin

 

04. All In One WP Security & Firewall Plugin

As the Name suggests, All in One WP Security & Firewall is not only the plugin but a firewall to protect your site from malicious activities and malwares. All in One WP Security Plugin and Firewall has many unique features to check and inform you for any actual or potential vulnerability in your WordPress blog security.

Most of the features of All in One WP Security and Firewall are same as offered by iTheme WP Security but the feature which I most like about All in One WP Security & Firewall plugin is the its site security score meter that is added to the WordPress dashboard. The meter gives a score to your blog based on how secure your site is, so you can take some measurable action to further improve your blog security.

Some unique features of All In One WP Security & Firewall includes:

1. Add Security score meter to your dashboard.
2. Protect against bruteforce attacks
3. Lockdown IPs which tries bruteforce attacks
4. Instant email notification in case of brutforce attacks
5. Forces Strong password generation
6. Allows schedule automatic backup of your database.
7. Adds a firewall to prevent various attacks and security threats like SQL injection, Malicious bots attacks, Bad query strings, prevent CSRF, XSS and many other security threats.
   Download All in One WP Security & Firewall Plugin

 

05. BulletProof Security Plugin

Last but not least, BulletProof WordPress Security plugin has many unique security features that many plugins lack. When installed, this plugins adds Login Security, Database security and a Firewall along with other security layers. With a simple user interface, your WordPress security is a matter of few clicks. The plugin will take care of your blog security and you just relax.

BulletProof Security Plugin limits the failed login attempts in case of Brutforce attacks and ban security scanners, fake traffic and bots, Block IPs and many more. Other then the pro security measures, the plugin also optimize the WordPress blog performance and speed by adding cache.

Some highlighted features of BulletProof WordPress Security plugin are following:

1. .htaccess Protection
2. Built-in file manager for .htaccess file
3. Login Monitoring and Security
4. Database backups: Full or partial, scheduled or manual
5. Delete old backups to save your disk storage
6. Database Table prefix changer to hide and secure it from hackers
7. Optimizes site performance by adding caching
8. Come with 3 Theme Skins to look better

Well these all are the features available with free version of BulletProof Security plugins, many pro features are available on paid premium version. Download BulletProof Security Plugin

Some other important security measures

To have better WordPress blog security, also follow and apply these security measures:

1. Use a Secure Hosting
2. Keep all the things updates including WordPress Version, Plugins and Themes
3. Choose a Strong Password
4. Never use admin as username and hide the user Names from public
5. Enable 2-Step Authentication
6. Limit login attempts to prevent brutforce attacks
7. Don’t ever use any pirated themes or plugins
8. Take frequents backups of your files and database.

Read here the full article on 10 Easy Tips To Boost WordPress Security

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WordPress.org is indeed the best CMS and the most popular blogging platform that every blogger loves but the thing which I really hate about WordPress is the security issue and its vulnerability to being hacked easily. WordPress is vulnerable because it is an open source CMS where the source code is open to all so the hackers can easily find security holes in it and use it to breach the security of WordPress blog.

On an average more than 60,000 WordPress sites hacked daily which is almost two third of all websites hacked in one day. Well this is a serious issue which most of WordPress bloggers don’t really care about, and if you too, don’t take the security of your WordPress blog security seriously, you may be the victim one day.

But don’t be panic, having little efforts will make your site and important data safe. Here are 10 practical tips to secure your WordPress site.

01. Secure Hosting

Almost 41% of all the WordPress blogs got hacked because of vulnerable hosting they have used. It’s a huge percentage so the hosting must considered first in order to make your WordPress site secure.

From the day first, opt for a secure web hosting service for your WordPress blog rather than going for cheap hosting. Remember, your WordPress blog is as secured as your hosting therefore look for the hosting services that keep security on priority. Do some background search and read the reviews regarding the hosting company you are about to host your site on. They may cost you bit more but make it sure that your WordPress blog is on secure place in safe hands. A secure hosting is one with following features

• Web Application Firewall
• Support for latest PHP & MySQL versions
• Account isolation
• Intrusion detecting feature

 

02. Updates WordPress Version, Plugins and Themes

Don’t ignore “Please Update Now” message showing on your dashboard or your WordPress site will be open to hacker’s attacks. Every updated version of WordPress comes with fixes and patches for the possible or potential vulnerabilities along with other features. If you are using the older WordPress version, hackers who knew the security issues of may target you blog.

The same is true regarding WordPress plugins and themes. So every time you got a message to update a plugin or theme, don’t ignore it.

03. Choose Strong Password

Weak password is another most common risk factor accountable for 8% of total WordPress hacks. Needless to say, a password like “america”, losangeles” “qwertyu”, “asdfg12345” is easy to guess and can be easily broken with online password breaking tools that apply thousands of password or word combination in a second.

Here are few tips to make strong password

1. Use mixture of alphabetical and numeric characters.
2. Use both upper- and lowercase alphabets as the password is case sensitive.
3. Use different symbols in password like $%*&! (don’t sue spaces)

Read here Google suggestions regarding strong password Or alternatively use password manager application like LastPass or KeePass (free) which will generate and remember strong password for you.
See the strength of your existing password here at GRC

04. Never use admin as username

Along with a strong password a strong username is also crucial. By default WordPress site has “admin” as username for administrator which is easy to guess and hacker attempt repeated logins using “admin” as username with list of common passwords. If you too, use admin as username, your blog is at risk of malicious attacks. Change it to an uncommon user name.
Note: After the WordPress 3.0 update, users are now allow to choose own name instead of admin.

05. Hide user Names

Well you may change the username from “admin” to another name but hacker can still gain access to your username via author archive page on your blog. So you must hide it from the hackers by configuring the user’s table in Database.

To hide the username form hackers, you need to change it in wp_users table. For this you have to access your database using phpMyAdmin. Look for wp_users here you’ll see a column user_nicename with list of users. Click on the username and change it to something other then the real username. For example if the username is johnsnow, change it to something like jhowsn.
Read the article regarding hiding your username here

 

06. 2-Step Authentication

You may have had enable Two Factor authentication feature on your Gmail ID where after login, a code is sent to the given phone number which let you access your Gmail account from a different PC or device.

If you apply the same 2-Step Authentication to your WordPress blog, there will be significantly improvement in your blog security. However 2-step authentication is not an inbuilt feature of WordPress, you have to use third-party plugins to enable this feature on your WordPress blog. One of the best ways to enable 2-factor authentication is to use Clef Two-Factor Authentication while the other plugin is Authy. All you need is to install one of these plugins, register on their respected sites, proved the phone number and you’ve done.

 

07. Limit login attempts

Sometime hackers or bots try to crack WordPress blog password by brute-force attack via online or offline tools by applying combination of thousands of usernames and passwords. Although they might not always successful in cracking your password but still if they do it, you may lost your blog and data. To avoid such attacks, a good solution is to limit the number of login attempts from the same IP. Again, this feature is not available in WordPress by default but plugins will do it for you. A list of plugins available in WordPress plugins directory that allow you to specify the number of failed login attempts from an IP. Just try one of the following plugins

• Limit Login Attempts
• Login LockDown
• Login Security Solution
• Login Security
• Stealth Login Page

 

08. Don’t Use pirated themes and plugins

Pirated Premium WordPress themes and plugins are easily available at file sharing or torrents sites but don’t ever use such pirated WordPress themes or plugins. These themes may have malicious code or script hidden in them which upon installation to your WordPress theme or plugins directory may render severe harm to your WordPress blog.

Even be conscious to use free themes offered by an unknown source or developer. It is better to pay some $$ to buy premium WordPress theme rather then to lost your data forever. Or if you want to use free themes, use one from the trusted companies or those available on WordPress official theme repository. Similarly use only plugins that are listed in WordPress.org plugins directory as they are test and evaluated for any malicious code

 

09. Use A Security plugin

After all these tips, you can still make your WordPress blog security tight by adding an extra layer of protection using a security plugin. Just explore the WordPress plugins directory for some handy security plugins. These plugins will add an extra layer of security to your blog, protect your blog from malware and will regularly scan your blog for any malicious code or unusual activity. Both free and premium security plugins available there, choose the one which is most trusted and rate by other WordPress users and has the features that best suit your requirements.

Some of the handy Security plugins available at WordPress plugins directory are:

1. All in One WP Security and Firewall
2. BulletProof Security
3. Better WP Security
4. Exploit Scanner
5. Wordfence

 

10. Take frequents backups

Take a backup of your WordPress blog before it’s too late. Even after all the safety measure you apply to improve your WordPress blog security, there is no assurance that your site is 100% safe, so you need to be prepared for the worst happen.

Being a WordPress blogger, it’s crucial to take regular backups of your blog so in case if something wrong happen with your blog or if your WordPress blog is being hacked, you can easily restore all the data and can re-establish your site to its previous glory.

If you are a novice blogger and don’t know much about the backup process of your site data, don’t worry, there are some handy plugins that might help you in this regards. Some of these plugins includes

• WordPress Backup to Dropbox
• Backup WordPress
• BackupBuddy plugin
• WP DB Backup

Some hosting services provide backup feature to take backup of website or blog on routine basis. Checkout your site’s cPanel to see if this features is provided to you by your hosting provider.

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What is Domain Authority?

Well known to Bloggers and SEO professionals, Domain Authority is a prediction of how good a site is and how well it will rank on Search engines. Domain Authority is one of the parameter among others like Page Authority which greatly influence on your site organic traffic from search engines and Pageranknig. Developed by Moz. Domain Authority is score on a scale of 1 – 100 where the best possible score is 100 while the minimum score is 1.

What is the Importance of Domain Authority?

You may have notice that your well written post can’t get rank high on SERPs as compare to some other sites who have written on same topic with low quality content. Did you ever ask about why it happens? This is where the site’s Domain Authority matters. Just check their Domain Authority and compare it with yours and you will come up with the answer that why those blog or sites rank high on SERPs than yours.

Search engine bots give priority to the sites or blogs with higher domain authority and consider their content important. So the higher Domain Authority means the higher Organic traffic from search engines and each post of your blog will be get noticed by search engines. Therefore Domain Authority has great importance in SEO and Blogging.

What Determined the Domain Authority of My Blog?

The actual post is about the improvement of Domain Authority of your site but first let us discuss here the important key factors which determine the domain Authority of a site to have better understandings of the areas which need to work on to improve Domain Authority.

There are several factors (more than 40) that are crucial to determine the Domain author. Some of these include but not limited to,

• Backlinks from High Domain Authority sites,
• Traffic your site get directly or from search engines
• Site Structure that is how well organize your site is
• Quality and of course, quantity of the content
• Social Signals like how much shares per post on Social Media.
• On-Site and Off-Site SEO of the site
• MozRank, MozTrust and lots of more.

 

How Much Domain Authority is OK?

• The Average Domain Authority is 40 to 50
• Good Domain Authority is 50 to 60
• Excellent Domain Authority is above 60 or for some bloggers 65.
• Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia scores 100.

Can I Improve My Blog Domain Authority?

Domain authority is neither a fixed metrics nor it is hard to improve. There are some techniques following which you can improve you Blog or site Domain Authority just as you can your site improve your Alexa Ranking

How to Improve Domain Authority?

Well you might get some idea about the factors that are crucial to determine the Domain Authority of a site or blog. Now it’s time to do some practical things to improve your site Domain Authority. But remember after all these techniques; it is still difficult to get domain authority score above 90 and even impossible to get Domain Authority 100.

01. Strong SEO On-site and Off-Site should be in place

Before considering your site Domain Authority, you should first emphasize on your site SEO. As explained by Moz, the first step in order to improve your site Domain Authority is to work on and improve both Off Site and on site SEO. Optimizing the site SEO is the foundation of Domain Authority improvement. So take a look at the Headers tags, Image Alt Tags, proper titles, Keyword, Meta tags, site structure & organization, Navigation and all other aspect of the on and off site SEO.

Tip to Improve SEO:

You can check your site SEO for errors, warning and suggestion at Neil Patel’s QuickSprout and relook those errors to have perfect SEO.

Read On Site SEO Factors and Tips to Improve Them

02. Create lots of Quality Content

Content is the King, and it doesn’t mean the more you write, the more your Domain Authority will be. The Phrase seems fit well on the Quality of content rather than the quantity. Quality contents are more searchable, more readable and more sharable which determine the value of your site and helps to improve the Domain Authority of your site. Remember, avoid duplicate contents as it would be consider by Google as “Keyword Stuffing” as an attempt to rank high.

Tips to Write Quality Content:

1. Find trending topic on Google Trends or other research tools to know what’s hot and what goes viral around the web.
2. Write a “How To” guide.
3. Write a “101 Guide” about something.
4. Publish interview of famous people in your industry.
5. Write Review on new technology or products.
6. Compare products for pros and cons.
7. Write both, human and search engine friendly post.
8. Add interesting and relevant Eye catching images in your post.
9. Add infographics to catch attention of visitors
10. Add a video to your post.

All these posts can easily go viral on social media and internet helps you to get numerous backlinks in turn.

03. Get Quality Backlinks

Backlinks are one of the most valuable tools to improve your site Domain Authority. Huge number of backlinks can be a major booster to your Domain Authority but keep in mind, don’t ruin this technique to be considered as spamming and always look for the backlinks from High Domain and Page Authority sites as well as from High PR sites. Backlinks from such sites are considered as quality backlinks and will boost up your site Domain Authority. It is also important to get backlinks from different High Authority domains instead of getting from a few one. 100 backlinks from 100 domains are far better than 1000 backlinks from same domain. Remember, number of unique domains pointing to your site matters more than number of backlinks from same domain.

Tips to Get Quality Backlinks:

Try to get natural backlinks through Guest blogging, commenting on dofollow blogs, posting regularly on High PR Forums relevant to your site’s topic and book marking your blog on Social Bookmarking sites. Here are lists of High PageRank sites for Backlinks.

• 7 Ways to Get PageRank 9 Backlinks for Better SEO
• 120+ High PR DoFollow ORG Backlinks for SEO in 2015
• 101 High PageRank Social Bookmarking Sites To Improve SEO
• 75+ High PR .Edu Websites To Get Quality Backlinks
• 65+ High PageRank Dofollow Forums List to get Quality Backlinks
• 45+ PageRank 8, 7, 6 and 5 DoFollow Backlinks Blogs List
• 20+ High Quality High PR Gov Backlinks for SEO

04. Don’t Forget Internal Linking

Did you know why Wikipedia has high PageRank as well as Domain Authority score 100. This is because of well organized and strong internal linking. Internal links are a key element of on page SEO contributes to optimize your site SEO as well as the Domain authority. They help in faster indexing of pages and make it easy for web crawlers to navigate through your site. I may not say that optimizing your site internal links will improve you Domain authority to 100 but still it is a crucial element to boost up you Domain Authority somewhat so one should not avoid it.

Tips for Strong in-linking:

1. While trying to get backlinks from high PageRank authority sites, don’t forget to build high quality internal links.
2. Go through your site or blog to find the linkable texts
3. Don’t link to the same article or page twice from current page or post.
4. Use verity of anchor text to link to your previously published post
5. Don’t exceed than 100 links per page. The number of backlinks per page depends upon the length of the post.
6. Maintain a balance between internal links and external links from same post or page.
7. Use SEO Backlinks plugin for auto internal linking.

05. Regularly Remove Spammy Backlinks

Well after Google Panda and Penguin updates in Search engine algorithm, the SEO of backlinking is totally change. Now getting backlinks may harm your site SEO instead of boosting it. While trying to get quality backlinks from high PageRank high domain authority sites, don’t forget to remove the toxic spammy links that you’d made.

Tip to Remove Spammy Links:

Go through your backlink profile to search for spammy link and then use Google Disavow tool to get rid of those spammy bad backlinks. Hard to do but crucial if you want High Domain Authority.

06. Social Signal

As stated earlier in the key factors which determine the Domain Authority, social media signals is the one. While determining your site domain authority Moz. and Google gives value to how much your content got shared on Social media site. The more your content share and like on social media, the more your site Domain Authority will be. Social media sites are also a source of traffic other then search engines so you should not avoid the strategies to optimize you content for social media.

Tips to Optimize Social Signal:

1. Optimize your content not only for Search engine but for social media as well.
2. Find some viral topics and rewrite on the same in your own word with your own pinion.
3. Have social sharing buttons on your post and in widget.
4. Share you content over social media site to reach more audience.

Read: Increase Your Blog Traffic up to 80% with These Smart Strategies

07. Relax and let your Domain Age to Grow

After doing all the tweaks and applying all the techniques mentioned above, it’s now time to relax and wait. Wait for years. Yes, because one of the crucial element that determine the High Domain Authority is the Domain age. The older your Domain is the higher your Domain authority will be. Well this element of your site domain authority is unalterable and you have to wait up to years to attain the maximum possible domain authority for your blog or site.

Tip:

Well this element can’t be alter, just wait for it to grow by itself with time while work on the other elements of domain authority

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Ever heard about or have used backlink checking tools? What are these backlink checker tools and what’s their importance in blogging? Can you name some popular yet free online backlink checking tools? All the questions will be answer in the post, first let us discussed some important aspects of SEO and backlinks.

Blogging is easy but SEO is not painless. Optimizing your site for search engines requires lot of work and efforts by blogger to remain on the top of the search engines results pages and to rank the page high. One of the conventional methods to stay at the top of Search engine results pages is to get as many backlink as you can, but after the release of Penguin update in Google search algorithm, SEO with backlinking is changed now. In old days, the number of backlinks was important while nowadays the quality matters. To get quality backlinks, there are lots of high PageRank backlinks that we have published on Crizmo using which you may have made number of backlinks to your blog; it’s time to check them now with Online Backlink checker tools. Although there are number of backlink checker tools, some of these aren’t much accurate or not free. Here in this post, we comes with some useful free online Backlink Checker tools which will helps you to find both the quantity and the quality of the backlinks you get or you can view the backlinks to made to your competitor blog.

OpenLinkProfiler:

OpenLinkProfiler is among the free reliable online backlink to check backlinks to your blog, no matter how old or fresh they are. This free backlink checker tools will not only fetch the number of backlink to your site or blog but also reveal the quality of these backlink such as the nofollow or dofollow attribute, the source text, the site’s niche and the date where the link has been created. Along with these handy backlink checking feature, the tool also let you to expoert and download up to 1000 latest backlinks pointing to your site in .csv (one of Ms Excel extension) format completely free. Just visit the OpenLinkProfiler now to disclose its potentials. Try this SEO and backlink checking tool here

 

AHrefs:

AHrefs is the best ever free backlink checker tool with premium functions to try for free. This tool is far beyond the conventional backlink checker tools and reveals the other aspects of your site or blog along with the number of backlinks pointing to your site.

Some of its great features that you can try for free are the number of backlinks, number of referring pages and domains, the social impact of your site or the social popularity and sharing of your site and many more. You can export backlinks in PDF or CVS format and download it. Try this SEO and backlink checking tool here

BuzzSumo

Although not all of its features are free, the free version BuzzSumo is still enough to get the list of backlinks pointing to your site. Along with backlink checking option, this tool is best to check the social impact or sharing of your latest and old post so you can know which of your post goes viral on social media. This tool also let you to expert the backlinks in CSV or PDF format and downloads it on your PC. Try this SEO and backlink checking tool for free here

BacklinkWatch

If you only want to know the number of backlinks along with the PR of the site and the anchor text, BacklinkWatch online backlink checker is best tool for you. With only few useful features, BacklinkWatch is best to fetch the list of thousands of backlinks pointing to your site in just few seconds. The tool shows the backlink along with the anchor text or image and the dofollow or nofollow attribute of the backlink. Try BacklinkWatch tool for free here to get the latest list of backlinks

Link Diagnosis

Yet another free and powerful online backlink checker tool, Link Diagnosis provides the blogger different features along with backlink checking option. The tool, as its name indicates not only reveal the number of backlink pointing to your blog but the nature, the health, its nofollow or dofollow nature and the current status of a link that is pointing to your site. This tool is worth to try too to reveal all of its great features. Try this SEO and backlink checking tool here

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Being a serious blogger, you may know best about the Backlinks and their importance in blogging and SEO. If not, read here about backlinks and their importance in blogging. After reading this, you may now understand that why blogger are looking for more and more quality backlinks. Now against it is a question that what make a backlinks “Quality backlinks”? Or what are the typical features of a quality backlinks? A quality backlink is one from relevant source, from high PageRank site, dofollow and many more. Read more here about the features of quality backlink if you don’t know. After all, it’s now time to get hundreds of quality backlinks from high PageRank sites to improve your own PageRank and site SEO.

Following is a huge collection that encompasses 1000+ 2015 fresh high quality backlinks from high PageRank sites. Some of these backlinks are from forums while others from CommentLuv dofollow enabled sites, some of the backlinks are from .GOV sites which are really helpful to improve your site SEO while others are from .org and .edu site which are loved by Search engines especially Google (get backlink from Google+). All you need to get these quality backlink is to go to the specific post and read the methods to get valuable backlinks. This way you can get tons of backlinks for your site. Remember one thing, don’t do this in a while as this would consider spamming by search engines and may rather harm you ranking instead of improving it. Most of these sites are dofollow enabled, check it by yourself if some sites have disabled dofollow attributes or simple have set nofollow.

Massive List of Dofollow High Quality Backlinks 2015

1. 120+ High PR DoFollow ORG Backlinks for SEO in 2015

2. 101 High PageRank Social Bookmarking Sites To Improve SEO

3. 75+ High PR .Edu Websites To Get Quality Backlinks

4. 65+ High PageRank Dofollow Forums List to get Quality Backlinks

5. 45+ PageRank 8, 7, 6 and 5 DoFollow Backlinks Blogs List

6. 20+ High Quality High PR Gov Backlinks for SEO

7. 7 Ways to Get PageRank 9 Backlinks for Better SEO

8. 150+ CommentLuv Enabled Blog List

9. List of 850 High PR Commentluv Enabled Blogs to Boost Your Traffic

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