How to avoid hacking and keep your company's website protected

shukla7789 · Post by **shukla7789** » Mon Jan 20, 2025 10:04 am

Avoiding hacking is essential to maintaining our positioning. In the event of an external attack, our SEO results will be affected. If we take the necessary measures to avoid it, we will be able to work with a secure website, although some hacks are inevitable.

In any case, it is essential to protect our company's website. This week we will tell you how to avoid hacking and what consequences such an intrusion has on your Google results.

What is a hack
A hack is an attack on a digital device that can have a variety of purposes, from collecting data to damaging a completely random website.

Hacking is an illegal technique in most cases, which is why it is 99 acres database and punishable. Nowadays, any website must have a series of security elements, capable of protecting the website from the most common attacks, especially if it is an e-commerce site. However, some of these attacks are absolutely unavoidable.

Can a hack affect my website?
Of course, and it does so immediately. A web hack usually affects the content, from texts to multimedia content. Google immediately stops perceiving the website as it was originally designed, and therefore stops ranking it.

Furthermore, Google focuses all its activities on the user. If it detects that a page is hacked, it will not index it. On the contrary, in a short time, that content will be removed from the usual SERPs.

In general, the consequences are disastrous; several years of SEO work can be damaged in a few seconds, which is why it is essential to defend yourself against any attack of this type.

How do I protect my website from being hacked?
Avoiding a standard hack can be easy if you follow these tips.

Always keep your CMS versions fully updated, especially WordPress. CMSs themselves are usually the ones that provide you with the most useful anti-hacking tools.
Also update your plugins, this is a very easy entry point for hackers.
Of course, create strong passwords that cannot be replicated.