Some interesting comments during the last year resulted in this article about how using AWeber at least indirectly can create an SEO penalty for your website.

After you read that article here are some more SEO points to ponder:


Are you evaluating the possible NEGATIVE reputation of third party services whose links appear on your site?

This includes not just autoresponder services, but advertising services, link services, etc.

Personally,...

The DDOS attacks can put a heavy load on the server and the MYSQL database

You can deny access to wp-login.php based on the ip address if you don't allow visitors to log in

alternatively, you can use basic authentication

and deny access unless users have a username/password

you could create a generic user/password and display it on the blog or the login screen to allow visitors to login, but the bots won't see that.

That...