Google's New Portal Provides Help for Hacked Sites

This week, financial giant JPMorgan Chase's Chase.com website became the latest victim in what appears to be an escalating series of cyberattacks from a variety of sources over the past several months. For an entrepreneur, a website hack can be disastrous, disrupting revenue and causing customers to lose confidence. Perhaps mindful of the increasing frequency and severity of cyberattacks, Google has launched a one-stop shop for advice on how to recover after your website has been compromised.

On the new "help for hacked sites" portal, which opened Tuesday, you'll find a series of videos that walk you through how to assess the damage, contact your website host, quarantine your site and more.

Of course, protecting your site before hackers find it is always best, says Maile Ohye, a developer programs technology lead on Google's Webmaster Support Team who narrates the first video. Her tips for safeguarding your site, which she writes in an accompanying blog post, include:

• Keeping software updated
• Removing extraneous software
• Using strong passwords (and making sure that your employees use them)
• Backing up your site on a regular basis

Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226086#ixzz2O0GAKmE9

Google's 10-Minute Guide to SEO Basics

From keyword research to backlinking, staying on top of search engine optimization strategies can be a full-time job in itself. But fear not, time-crunched entrepreneurs. Google has a killer resource for you.

It's a 10-minute video loaded with must-know SEO advice for startups from Maile Ohye, a developer advocate on Google's Webmaster Central Team. Some of Ohye's tips include:

• Don’t bother with meta keywords tags. Google ignores it for search.
• Sign up for email forwarding. Google can forward you notifications regarding issues with your site that could dent your search ranking.
• Use Google's Webmaster Tools to search for the keywords related to your domain name. If the domain's previous owners were spammers, your site might not rank highly in search.

For more of Ohye's tips, watch the video:

What tips would you add about optimizing your site for SEO? Let us know in the comments section below.
 

Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/223883#ixzz2Nc2xlVkm

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SEO: Importance of TITLE tag.

I recently came across a video that stresses the importance of the HTML <title> tag in optimizing your website's search engine visibility. I found it to be enlightening and hence thought I'd share it.

When it comes to optimizing your business website for search (SEO), using "title tags" is critical. A title tag is the element in your HTML code that tells search engines what your page is about. Essentially it's your page headline or title, which is the copy that's listed first in search engine rankings. Here, Search Engine Land editor Danny Sullivan offers additional insight into how title tags can help your site rank better in search.

Here's the link:  http://www.entrepreneur.com/video/224660

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