andydidyk.com

Bear with me, this site will likey be taken down sporadically as I try to implement some new security features.  I haven’t found conclusive proof that I’ve been hacked, but Google Webmaster Tools is reporting some major spam keywords in my keywords report (that aren’t being caught by other keyword analysis).  Words such as the names for major drugs, porn, software piracy, etc.

For the record, this really isn’t fun.  I’ve had to take over two months off of writing regularly just to try and fix all of this stuff in my spare time.  On the other hand, I’ve learned a ton about internet security and the importance of taking some basic precautions when running an open sourced CMS, such as Wordpress. I’ve also learned quite a bit about the down-and-dirty world of Search Engine Optimization (something n-tara interactive has lots of experts on but until recently I was but a mere novice in understanding).

Special thanks to Nick Rice, who is always one step ahead of me.  I’ll try his suggestions on a couple of Wordpress plugins (Ask Apache and Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam) and manually checking my HTML source code, and I’ll report back soon.