gutabo - 8:18 am on Sep 4, 2008 (gmt 0)

Greetings,

Long story short. Big site sisterhood, 14 country themed sites, all big, all at least 5 years old. Used to be in top 3 or 5 until last december. Started to go down, first 7, then 9, then 10, then 13 two months ago. At first we thought we were going up again(cause we have lotsa legit content and we sell a service). We started to change anchor text and correcting links, went up again, got to first page. Then we started to dance between 8 and 10. 3 weeks ago we started to fix duplicated titles and many other issues detected by webmaster tools, and we added Adsense to every page. A week and a half ago started to do better, even showing up last sunday at 3(we were in tears). Danced monday and tuesday between 4 and 8, and yesterday went back to 10. We're still fixing the content issues(there were many issues in all sites and we're working on them in a non-automated way) but are quickly losing hope, this year has been REALLY bad for us and we're thinking about selling the sites and getting into other business. Anyone can share a light here? What's going on?

Thanks in advance.