Google Panda Reveals a Flawed Business Model
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I build my own lists from traffic sources. I rent legit lists from time to time but only targeted, double opt-in (even though I don't require double opt-in for my own lists). Nothing like the blasters in the email section do.
I suck at social media. I just haven't ever been able to reach anything close to a positive ROI with it so I don't bother.
I totally agree with beach affiliate.
MY True story: I was solely dependent on SEO and adsense for good 2-3 years and made insane money. My biggest site was just dominating any keyword I wanted to dominate and then the "Panda" came and fucked my sites over so bad that they lost 95% traffic overnight. Adsense was banned at around the same time. From high 5 figures a month, i was down to nothing, nada. Well, I recovered my business since but lesson well learned.
See how this all changed for me within a day. Relying on "Google" for anything is a HUGE mistake and those of you currently practicing this model will learn it someday.
MY True story: I was solely dependent on SEO and adsense for good 2-3 years and made insane money. My biggest site was just dominating any keyword I wanted to dominate and then the "Panda" came and fucked my sites over so bad that they lost 95% traffic overnight. Adsense was banned at around the same time. From high 5 figures a month, i was down to nothing, nada. Well, I recovered my business since but lesson well learned.
See how this all changed for me within a day. Relying on "Google" for anything is a HUGE mistake and those of you currently practicing this model will learn it someday.
I know his site, and it was MAD authority, and still it.. When Panda hit, yours was hit as a collateral damage just like Several other Tech blogs which all recovered... I think your only mistake that Adsense fuck up due to multiple accounts.. Otherwise your site is what anybody can call mad authority.. EVen sites like labnol was hit, but all those sites recovered..
Has it not recovered at all?
I am still unsure why you gave it all up...
Blogspotter, its not the site you think it is 
That site is still good. I had another Mega site which got raped.
That site is still good. I had another Mega site which got raped.
TLDR all posts BUT i don't care how many sites you have, whether your LukeP and have 500 sites or not it's really simple
Spammy sites with no value are going to get fucked it's only a matter of time. If you had 500 EMD sites like "BlackLawnMowerBlades.com" and all you did was talk about lawn mower blades and how they could be black or red or whatever, your sites are going to go away eventually.
Spammy sites with no value are going to get fucked it's only a matter of time. If you had 500 EMD sites like "BlackLawnMowerBlades.com" and all you did was talk about lawn mower blades and how they could be black or red or whatever, your sites are going to go away eventually.
That really sucks but it's probably the best thing that ever happened to you business-wise.
Blogspotter, its not the site you think it is
You talking about the other UGC like site? That would have been raped anyway lol
Article is linkbait and not even good linkbait. There's nothing flawed about an organic traffic business model that isn't a flaw of basically every other business model. The main flaw with an organic traffic business model is there's no correlation of inputs and outputs. Pagerank can come and go, rank go up and down, sites are sandboxed and deindexed literally from doing everything, something and nothing. SEOs just shoot at the broad side of a barn blindfolded, paint bullseyes around the bullet hole and call themselves expert marksmen.
True. There is nothing wrong with the organic traffic business model, but there is something wrong with letting it be your bread and butter.
The question here is if it would even be possible to build an online income without relying on just 1-3 single other major players. Only possibility I can think of is if you built a site that visitors would be told about offline and then go online and check out. A viral site or video wouldn't do, because everything viral is carried either by google, youtube, or some other large site.
Sure, go buy advertising direct on other websites. They could give a fuck about quality scores and keyword densities or how many ads you have above the fold (or basically anything else that affects your Google rank) so long as you're paying them.
