I lost 90% Of My Income Overnight
But I’m Still Here! Here’s How.
Life was good, I was earning between $300 and $400 a day with AdSense and my income grew each week.
Over 3 years, I had built a large network of blogs on various topics, at this point, I had over 1.6 million pages ranking in Google.
I was living the dream!
Then I woke up to $10 earnings instead of the usual $400
I’d been Google slapped.
Here is how I recovered and surpassed what I lost.
It is easy to say this now but that Google slap was one of the best things to happen to me. (It didn’t feel like it at the time)
$10 a day didn’t cover the Domain costs or hosting fees, so I was forced to go back to step one and start over.
After feeling sorry for myself for a few days I decided to start over and to never rely solely on a big tech company for my income again.
A decision that has saved me many times since.
Lesson 1: Big tech only cares about its profits, and if it can improve them by taking them from you, they will
Step One: Building a List
My first step was to start to build a list. Luckily I had been active in several communities so I…
