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One of the hottest topics I have written about in regards to blogging for profit has been site up-time. It simply doesn’t matter how much time, sweat and money you put into your site if it is down more than it is operating properly. Unfortunately BlogConduit has been the recipient of a string of hostile attacks by a relentless hacker.
This unfortunate series of events led to a woefully high incidence of site downtime as well as being temporary labeled by Google as a distributor of malware. If you have never had this experience, it would be in your best interest to never allow such a thing to happen to your site. Not only does your readership decrease, you will lose valuable return visitors and if your blog is monetized, forget any income during the downtime.

Thankfully the good people at Google are  responsive and as soon as all of the malicious code was detected and eliminated, it only took a few days for a site review and all was past. At least that is what I thought. As soon as the hacker attack was solved on my individual site, some catastrophic failure plagued my web host and the servers fell offline one-by-one. It does look like things have finally turned the corner, but months of potential income has been lost by them and their clients. Safe, reliable hosting is an absolute that cannot be compromised.

For those of you who are visiting BlogConduit for the first time, or return readers that have weathered the storm, we say thank you!