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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!

I know many of you have been wondering what has happened to this blog and I can assure you at certain points in the last two months I have been asking myself the same question.

Apparently I garnered the attention of someone with genuine hacking skills that for whatever reason doesn’t like my sites. I have been combating attacks against all of my blogs since August. Past attacks were a nuisance, but the attacker shifted his strategy in this latest round and did quite a number on all my blogs. So much so that Google had classified all of my sites to be malicious attack sites and blocked them.

The amount of time I have for blogging the last few weeks has been spent defending the site, cleaning up malicious code and making efforts to tighten security. I don’t know if all that I have done will be enough to keep this anonymous coward away from me again, but for now things are back to normal.

Family emergencies are not always something that can be prepared for in such a way as to “keep the lights on” in some places such as the blogosphere. I’ve been away from my writing chair for quite some time now, but rest assured, BlogConduit.com is back in action!

One of the most critical aspects of maintaining a professional blog is continuity in article postings. Readers want new and updated information on a regular basis. If the blogger fails to provide such timely information, chances are higher for a decline in readership and subscriptions.

However, sometimes it is necessary to step away from the keyboard and trust that when you return to regular blogging, your readers will understand.

Such has been the case in recent weeks for BlogConduit.com. There have been numerous family and personal occurrences that have made this blog take a temporary backseat to the ride of life.

I am very hopeful that the majority of such days are now behind us and I can return to a regular schedule of providing timely and informative information for you, my dedicated readers! Thank you for your patience.

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