Well, I was wondering where all my traffic had gone. Turns out that everything from Google had been dropped a few days ago, but its almost like the tap had been slowly turned off. Today, its nil.That’s right. My number one listing for “Tony Hung”, gone … although there are other listings, in addition to a splogportal entry for Deep Jive Interests (how ironic).

Anyway, the reason for the hate isn’t because of anything I said (hopefully — Google I love you!), but because my blog had been hacked. I presume it was because of some exploits that were known, and that was the reason I had hastily upgraded when I had found out to the most recent version, Wordpress 2.3.1, in addition to changing all my passwords.

I haven’t had any problems yet, but for those interested in the gory details, what had happened was my Template had been hacked so that the footer had included a number of hidden terms, such as “interracial brazilian asian free xxx stories big expression … ” and, well, you get the idea.

What had started happening was that my blog started getting indexed for *those* colorful terms, and … well, here we are today. I’ve re-applied for re-inclusion, so hopefully that will happen sooner rather than later now that my template’s been cleaned up.

I don’t know if what happened was directly because of an old Wordpress version I was running (2.2), but it behooves everyone to keep up with the updates.