The simplicity and ease of use with a WordPress site for my clients is why I recommend using WordPress to create your business website. You own your content, you can easily learn how to keep the content and blogs updated, and make changes.

Millions are using it to create blogs (which the search engines love if you add new content). It really isn't very difficult to learn. There are many videos on YouTube as well as sites with courses, free and paid. Both experts and novices take advantage of it.

WordPress solves the problem of your designer or hosting person "Holding you Hostage" because you can have access to edit your site.

Hackers "break" or gain access to websites for a variety of reasons. All websites are vulnerable for a variety of reasons. WordPress, is "open source" which just means the "behind the scenes" coding used to design WordPress is available for viewing by anyone who understands how to code.

That is why it is so important to keep your security up-to-date, the site and plugins updated, and to monitor your website daily to prevent attacks.

WordPress.com is owned by a privately held company called Automattic. ... Since WordPress.com platform was powered by the open source WordPress software, Automattic had a vested interest in the further development of the free WordPress software.

There has always been confusion among beginners about who owns WordPress. It’s a bit unreal to think something can be 100% free. If you have ever wondered who owns WordPress and how does WordPress make money, then you’re in the right place. In this beginner’s guide, we will answer these common questions along with covering how does that impact the ownership rights of your WordPress site and blog content.

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"WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is modern software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope that by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there."

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"SEO Spam is probably the most popular way to gain financial profit by hacking your website.

SEO injection (like Canadian pharma spam as seen in the picture above) can be executed because of software vulnerabilities, outdated plugin or theme vulnerabilities and obviously when your admin user password is “admin” or something equally poor and easy to guess.

When the website has been compromised by the attacker, they can create sub-pages and hide links and keywords into the source code and by using cloaking they make it invisible for you to see, but accessible to the search-engine crawlers to list all of them to search engine results."

How to check if your site had SEO spam?

1. Go to Google search
2. Write site:mywebsite.co.uk intext:canadian pharma (Do not leave spaces between the site and colon and intext and colon.)
3. See if the results show content on your website that you don’t recognize.

https://www.webarxsecurity.com/what-is-seo-spam/