Typical example of SWOT Threats

This is the title of a blog post in http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-shut-down-wordpress-host-with-73000-blogs-100716/ . This blog published an article looks very much like a SWOT Threats. It has published an article abut the U.S. authority shut down 73,000 blogs hosted by some free hosting company. This has pub 73,000 blogs on dead road. Since the hosting has been ordered to shut down, there is nothing the owners of these affected blogs can do except for those who has done their own backup. This nature is SWOT Threats is massive destructive

SWOT Threats

Typically, this is an excellent example of SWOT Threats that can happen to any Internet Business. And with this incidence, all bloggers and Internet Marketers should take similar precaution to mitigate the threats. Do not let the common saying ” It do not happen to me” .  This is only one of many detrimental examples of SWOT Threats. Some other serious cases like :

• Prolong interruption due to host server caught fire
• Virus attack the server database which can take up to weeks to recover
• Partial interruption by transmission gateway of your country

See other examples of  SWOT Threats

Impact of SWOT Threats

Before any threats happen to you, many of us are not to take any precautionary action. But when a crisis occur and causes serious threats to your Internet Business, then only you act.  What can you do to mitigate such a big scale threats? Well, the least you could do is to perform regular backup of your blog or your website. This is

Do not take it too lightly that it may not happen to you. Precaution is better than cure. Look out for non obvious SWOT Threats in your own analysis

SWOT Threats in Internet Business

If you operate your internet business for a living and rely heavily on Search Engine Optimization to get traffic from it, then one of the most detrimental event in an Internet Business is the Threat that result in lost of website ranking from Page #1 to nowhere.

If you website listing move within page #1, you may still can relax and work on it to maintain its position. You may enhance your content, do more link building etc. In many cases, your website or blog may move out from page #1 and landed in say page 2, you still have chance to move it back.

SWOT Threats

The worst SWOT Threats is that your website or blog just went missing, When this happen, it is likely that your website or blog being penalized by the search engine. Then you have lesser chance to bring it back to page #1 provided you are willing to put up alot of work. However, it is not as easy when you could not find your website of blog within the 10 pages.

But the worst detrimental SWOT Threat in Internet Business is some technical error to your website or blog. Example, something wrong with your hosting company where the server operate your website or blog caught fire or harddisk crashed until all data in the server is not recoverable. Though hosting company supposed to have back up but nobody can guarantee that.

There is nothing more than damaging than your internet business income drop to zero due to your website is our of action due to various known and unknown threats. In the SWOT Analysis template, it is a four quadrant matrix in which the four factor of SWOT occupied each quadrant separately. For the purpose of illustrating the SWOT Threats, I have listed the threats in internet business in the 4th quadrant as shown below:-

In conclusion, SWOT Threats has the most negative impact to your Internet Business and therefore it should be taken seriously whenever you discover it. to help you to identify SWOT Threats, check out from SWOT Example here

The ideal is if you can total prevent it, otherwise, try to mitigate SWOT threats to the least impact to your Internet Business.