 | DDOS & PR |
Two DDOS attacks on our ISP basically prevented a lot of our sites being accessible to everyone today. A real nightmare for siteowners - unable to do anything about it and also having to explain to users that there’s a problem and there’s nothing you can do about it.
These attacks are costly - ISPs waste time sorting them out (and thankfully our hosts do a sterling job in trying to prevent and work out issues). Siteowners lose income and possible users - not to mention issues with possible loss of SEO if the site is down for any length of time.
Loss of SEO is one thing, loss of Google Page Rank is another. A number of our sites are currently showing a PR of 0. There’s no obvious explanation as other sites are fine. Once I’d probably worry about this strange turn of events - but none of the sites have been favoured by Google for sometime. Free SEO traffic from the internet’s main search engine would be nice, but siteowner’s can waste hours sweating over the why’s and why not’s of Google’s forever moving goalposts - time better spent elsewhere.
Just tried to access the affiliates forum and found that has been hacked. Building a website, getting users, developing a business and trying to earn a living is hard work in itself - the ever shifting SEO rules and Google’s mysterious algorithms complicate the equations - but DDOS attackers and hackers just shovel on the brown stuff and sometimes there’s just bugger all you can do about it other than clean up the crap after they’ve had their “fun”.
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