I have had two WordPress blogs hacked into in the past. That was at a time when I was doing very little internet marketing, and until I found time to address the situation (months later), these sites were penalised in the search engines. They were not removed, but the rankings were reduced.
Finally, secure your wordpress site will even tell you that there's not any htaccess from the wp-admin/ directory. You can put a.htaccess file if you wish, and you can use it to control access to the directory from IP address or address range. Details of how to do this are available on the net.
It all will start with the fundamentals. Attempt to use complex passwords. Use numbers, letters, special characters, and spaces and combine them to make a password. You can use usernames that are not obvious.
While it's an odd term, it represents a task that is necessary : making a WordPress copy of your site about his to work on offline, or in the event something should go amiss. We are not simply being obsessive-compulsive here: servers go down every day, despite their promises of 99.9% uptime, and if you've had this happen to you, you understand look what i found the fear is it can cause.
Make a note of your Go Here new password! I recommend the paid or free version of the secure software *Roboform* to remember your passwords.
But realize that online security is. Do not only be the reactive type, take action to begin today, protecting yourself. Do not let Joe the Hacker make your life miserable and turn everything in creating come crashing down in a matter of moments that you've worked hard.