In this video, I'm going to be doing a Bluehost Sitelock Security Essentials Review.
I'll be going over what Bluehost Sitelock Essentials is along with answering the
popular questions is Sitelock Security Essentials worth it? Do You Really Need Bluehost Sitelock
Essentials? I'll also be covering the Bluehost Sitelock pricing and if there are any free options
for security for your site and if so what they are. By the end of this video, you should have
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Let's get started with the Bluehost Sitelock Essentials Review.
So what is Bluehost Sitelock Essentials? Sitelock Essentials is a Bluehost additional service
or add-on that is offered by Bluehost when signing up with them or within your Bluehost dashboard
once you have created your account with Bluehost. Sitelock Essentials is security for your website.
It protects your site from hackers, malware, and viruses being placed on it. Sitelock Security
provides you with daily malware scans, malware removal, blacklist monitoring,
a security dashboard, web application scanning, and a verified security badge for your site.
Sitelock Essentials works in the background checking your site daily for malware. The way
it works is Sitelock automatically downloads your site data, will screen it, to make sure malware
isn't added to your site. If malware is added to your site it will remove the malware automatically
and upload the clean version of your site. You are immediately notified if malware is found.
Blacklist monitoring is a monitoring service that monitors if your site ever gets blacklisted due
to malware being placed on your site. If your site gets blacklisted you will be immediately notified.
This Bluehost package extra can be beneficial as you never know
when your site might get hacked into and if your site goes down
or gets malware and you don't catch it fast enough you can not only lose sales
but can be blacklisted by search engines. Also, if you don't have much tech knowledge about code
and finding and removing malware this could lead to a lot of frustration and trouble for you.
Now let’s go over the Bluehost Sitelock pricing. When signing up with Bluehost once
you get to the package extras section you’ll see Sitelock Security Essential. Sitelock will cost
you $2.99 per month and is billed annually at a cost of $35.88 for the first year.
The renewal pricing after the first year comes to $5.99 a month equaling $71.88 a year.
If you have already signed up with Bluehost you can add Sitelock Security Essentials
in the Bluehost dashboard. You won’t get it for $35.88 for the first year though.
It’ll cost the full price of $71.88 for a year. So something to keep in mind.
Next, let’s go over if there are any Bluehost Sitelock Security Essentials alternatives. If
you are going to be using WordPress for your site there are free security plugins you can use.
Two popular free security plugins you can use and I recommend if you want a free option to
download to protect your WordPress site are Sucuri and All In One Security and Firewall.
These plugins can help protect your site and make it really hard for a hacker to
get into it to place malware on it. Some things to keep in mind is with
the free WordPress plugins it won't automatically remove malware for you.
I know Sucuri for example you can pay a fee which starts at $199.99 to remove the malware.
Free security plugins also won’t notify you if your site has been blacklisted by search engines.
Another thing about the free Security WordPress plugins is they could slow down your site.
This can vary from site to site. But something I want to point out to keep in mind.
Something you could do to amp up the security for your site is to utilize
Cloudflare which is a free CDN service that has free plans and does offer some options you can
utilize for security for your website. This can add a layer of protection for your site as well.
Utilizing the free WordPress security plugins, utilizing the free Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate
provided by Bluehost, having a CDN and utilizing their security features, and making sure your
username and password aren't easy all can help to protect your site from malicious attacks.
I would definitely recommend having backups of your site as well. Cloudflare for example is a
CDN with free plans and also comes with a bunch of free security options to help protect your site.
So in my opinion, is Bluehost Sitelock Security Essentials Worth It?
I would say it can be worth it as it protects your site daily from malicious attacks and malware
along with removing malware automatically and monitoring your site to see if it has
been blacklisted due to malware added on your site. I don't believe that this is an
easy yes or no answer to this as everyone's needs are different and some might have more
knowledge than others if having to correct the site if malware is placed into it.
Having peace of mind in case something happens could be
reassuring for having Sitelock Essentials.
I hope this Bluehost Sitelock Essentials Review video helped you answer the question
of whether you really need Bluehost Sitelock or not.
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