To be honest, having gained experience with various sites, I don’t know why it didn’t seem obvious to me from the beginning that certain sites would go belly up. Two sites in particular I can think of but won’t bother mentioning them by name because they are already gone and nobody cares any more. Live and learn. But there was one site that I really hated to see go. That was Squidoo. Even though the site was acquired by HUBPages, it’s just not the same. I really miss that site.
What happened to some sites, like Squidoo is that they didn’t know how to counter Google’s Panda/Penguin. Labelled content farms as was Hubpages they were unable to create some new paradigm.
Wikinut stopped paying because of it, and Triond disappeared.
To be honest, having gained experience with various sites, I don’t know why it didn’t seem obvious to me from the beginning that certain sites would go belly up. Two sites in particular I can think of but won’t bother mentioning them by name because they are already gone and nobody cares any more. Live and learn. But there was one site that I really hated to see go. That was Squidoo. Even though the site was acquired by HUBPages, it’s just not the same. I really miss that site.
What happened to some sites, like Squidoo is that they didn’t know how to counter Google’s Panda/Penguin. Labelled content farms as was Hubpages they were unable to create some new paradigm.
Wikinut stopped paying because of it, and Triond disappeared.