Some hacker filled my art website full of drug links. I won’t link it here because these infected domains are contagious, meaning I could get a PR penalty just for linking to it, until it’s “healed”. Does it heal itself? Not really. I fixed everything on my end, now all I can do is wait for Google to figure out the website isn’t about drugs.
I looked up the hacker’s URLs and nothing really came up. So I’m guessing they’re redirecting the traffic somehow, or spamming a variety of URLs.
I was searching for an old post I wrote (in Google) when I noticed the drug links, that’s when I knew I had a problem. Looks like the problem started two months ago! The links were all hidden. This explains why my PR dropped a few points. So I lost time, ad money and traffic. Blogging isn’t easy!