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K. Laskowski April, 2003 © e-work-zone.com

If you are new to web building, or even if you've been doing it for a while, you might be doing (or not doing) things which make your site more vulnerable to hackers.

At a minimum - here are some things you need to do, and anyone no matter the skill level can do them:

-> Make sure every directory in your site has a file called index.html or index.htm -- if you don't, all the files in that directory could be listed in your visitor's browser (pretty easy pickins).

-> Use the robots meta tag on sensitive web pages to keep robots from indexing the pages you want kept OUT of search engine listings. You might have to think about which pages these are...

-> Learn how to create a robots.txt file, and create one for your site. This is another way to keep search engine robots under control.

-> Keep your email address unreadable on your site. You need to have contact information there, don't get me wrong -- but you have to keep 'email harvesters' from being able to read your email address as they scan your site's HTML code.

-> And, be sure the CGI scripts your use on your site are written securely. Even some of the most popular scripts have been found to be vulnerable. Free is good, but in the script arena, sometimes you get what you pay for.

There is more you could do, but implementing these four tips will give you a solid start in avoiding the most common and easily fixed problems in basic website security.