comicsrus - 12:23 am on Nov 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

I've had a frustrating ride since the May update. Many of my sub-directories disappeared, along with 70% of my traffic.
It came back, for a few weeks anyway, on October 16.
Today, I'm back in the boondocks.
:-(

I have unique content, and am not set up as a store, etc. I am mainly a reference/trivia site.
Money is earned via affiliate programs (Amazon, Adsense, etc).
Like most people I hate sifting through ads and popups for what I'm looking for.

I had a steady rate of growth of 15-20% a year, and was on page one for each of several hundred key words and phrases for several years until Bourbon.
I added/changed a bit to every page several times a year.

When I'm getting 18,000 hits a day, I make about $50.00 daily. When I'm at 5,000 daily, it's more like $12.00.

I run a family-friendly, no pop-up, no pop-under site. I used to think that "fun" sites, not selling things in your face, were a boon to the internet. I see less and less of that all the time.

I didn't view visitors as customers.

Even with 5,000 visitors and 15,000 page views daily, I can make some money every month with pesky popups.
I'll give things until the end of the year, but after that, the internet will be about 1200 pages "colder".
:-(