How to make sure your blog is safe

Being a blogger can certainly be fun and addictive but…

Being a blogger can certainly be fun and addictive. For any human being creative, the outburst is important for a balanced life. Even if you have a job that is not so much on the fun side, you can always express yourself in the online world in your spare time with writing.

Since many online builders made the process of creating a website easy, we all at a certain point asked ourselves the question “Should I open my own website?”

Having a personal blog can be fun but also a bit dangerous as many of us are not aware of the online threats we face each day. With blogs, you share personal data online and you are at risk of fraud activity.  It might seem impossible that something bad might happen to you but that is not 100% true. You always need to be prepared. Here is what you can do to protect yourself and lower the risk of fraud online.

1.    Lower the amount of personal data you share online

Regardless of what the purpose of your blog is, you are still sharing some sort of personal data with other people. In order to decrease the personal data in your blogs, you would have to stop sharing personal posts such as photos with your house number, videos with you leaving or entering a home or your friends’ house, or locations where you regularly wine and dine.

This data can be used by people to track you down easily and abuse your honesty for their purposes. It doesn’t matter what is the subject of your blog is, you still will be a victim of hacktivism. For example:

2.    Protect your payment details

Finance fraud is the most common one in the online world. Hackers can easily gain access to your personal blog and leverage that to get access to your bank account. There is also a possibility that they will use all of the personal data to open a credit card in your name, spend everything and then leave all the debt to you. However, there is a low risk that this will happen as many other protective measures exist in the banking sector however please make sure you take those extra steps to fully protect your credit card details.

If your blog or social media account is connected to a certain email address (and usually it does), do not let anyone know this address, use it for registration and notifications only.

3.    Protect your website with terms of use and disclaimers

Your website represents your company and you need to make sure you add clear terms and disclaimers about the usage of your content. The terms of use are the website policy and will teach visitors of the activities they can do with your blogs, such as social sharing, reposting and using data for their own purposes.

The disclaimer is another form of legal protection you can add. Usually, they are part of terms of use and are used to protect you from liability if someone misuses any content you post on your blog. You need to make sure you inform your visitors that you are not responsible for any actions that will happen based on false interpretations of your content by other people.  

There are things you can do to protect your blog online. You can use domain privacy as the safest use of domains online. For an extra fee, you can make sure that your personal address won’t be listed in the public database instead your host’s information will appear. If you don’t want to share your personal phone number you can get a Google Voice number for various meetings and calls.

Always make sure you have a backup of your website so if something goes wrong you can restore it immediately. Use unique passwords for all your sites and accounts. Service like Abine Blur can help you achieve the desired level of security for your online presence.

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