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Well, I figured out why RisingPun.com was randomly losing Google-juice. I was hacked. Every page is filled with spammy links, but they're all only in the source code, and not visible on the page, so it took me a while to notice, since they left everything else the same.
The main page had a ton of spammy links on the bottom. The other pages looked normal, but I thought it was weird that the scroll-bar seemed tiny. Sure enough, on one random line mid-page, there's an infinity of blank space followed by a small php include set-up that points to a random sub-page elsewhere on my site that they dumped a lot of spammy links. So now it looks like I've got a few hours of page-cleaning to do. Not that I've updated my subpages in a while, but this is still irksome. I may just take down my column archive and keep up a best-of.
And yes, I've changed my password.
ETA: Writing things down gives them clarity -- maybe I just need to change the offending page and no longer worry about the php includes since they will no longer include anything bad?
ETA 2: Apparently there was a hack that happened back in June as that's when some file was created that may have given them access to everything else, and they're just back this month to spam it up. I deleted my .htaccess file for good measure, as Google seemed to think that could be a culprit, and I have no idea what it's supposed to look like.
ETA 3: And I see now that various links that worked a week ago on my site now seem to redirect to a "page not found" page from another site with crappy search graphics. I emailed my hosting company, as I think after two hours, I can admit fixing this is beyond me.
The main page had a ton of spammy links on the bottom. The other pages looked normal, but I thought it was weird that the scroll-bar seemed tiny. Sure enough, on one random line mid-page, there's an infinity of blank space followed by a small php include set-up that points to a random sub-page elsewhere on my site that they dumped a lot of spammy links. So now it looks like I've got a few hours of page-cleaning to do. Not that I've updated my subpages in a while, but this is still irksome. I may just take down my column archive and keep up a best-of.
And yes, I've changed my password.
ETA: Writing things down gives them clarity -- maybe I just need to change the offending page and no longer worry about the php includes since they will no longer include anything bad?
ETA 2: Apparently there was a hack that happened back in June as that's when some file was created that may have given them access to everything else, and they're just back this month to spam it up. I deleted my .htaccess file for good measure, as Google seemed to think that could be a culprit, and I have no idea what it's supposed to look like.
ETA 3: And I see now that various links that worked a week ago on my site now seem to redirect to a "page not found" page from another site with crappy search graphics. I emailed my hosting company, as I think after two hours, I can admit fixing this is beyond me.
