Quote Originally Posted by Northstar View Post
... one day Google decided they no longer liked my sites and suddenly my income was cut by more then half.
Been there. It can be very discouraging.

I used to make a bundle with relatively simple and straightforward SE building of non-spammy text content pages and domains.

Those days passed. The long tail became longer and thinner and tail-ier. Now centralization is the big winner.

Such is life.

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I still think a closely watched newbie blog project would be a fun idea.

It would be interesting to be proved wrong, and valuable knowledge for all concerned.