Nowadays, good content is not enough. You also need to be transparent with your visitors. Andrew Hansen recently released a great blog post on this very topic.
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The Undeniable Truth About Google ‘Slaps’ and How to Avoid Them
See the screenshot above? It’s from one of my best performing sites. It’s a .com that appears in the Google Top 3 for it’s keyword. This site brings in between $200-$400 a month without being touched. It relies completely on reposted RSS content that has been obtained with permission. The site went from 300-400 uniques per day to 15-40. Earnings have been slashed and I’m lucky if it brings in $80 this month. Luckily, this site is peanuts to me and doesn’t represent much income in the long run. It’s just there to pay for a few extras.