Starting from Scratch with a niche website or Pivoting? 

Amazon influencer program will crash and burn at some point.

Was busy releasing a new book. Now planning my first course

You so right carl, in this case I think if its broke, leave it and find other options, personally because I love blogging I have decided to try and get traffic using other media platforms to my sight and also narrowing down to smaller more specific niches.

"I haven't written any articles in the past few months because I was waiting for Google to recover, but it doesn't seem to be happening. I think you're on the right track and I'll wait for a couple of weeks before building a new website from scratch in the hope that it will work."

hey Carl, just a heads up, do you use fluorescent lighting? That's usually what causes the camera distortion of bars slowly moving down the image

Finally I got someone willing to tell the truth...anyone who's afraid to hear should kill their blogging future. Go start a fresh, secondly google is not the only traffic source, go try others for your old big blogs, maintain your old content but change your domain name also you can get a new domain and copy, adjust alittle and paste on the new site. You can also just wait for some months while google should settle...we all don't know yet about all this revolution seo and blogging stuff, when we know then we start the new blogging world. " tell me thank you "

Thanks for being honest Carl as always

Don't start a new website, start a new directory website! Ok?!

It's actually weird that one of the sites I've started about 1 year ago, started ranking for the first time after the March update and is climbing slowly. None of my other sites have been hit hard either. Only one of them is slowly fading, but that's because I don't put a lot of effort into it. Maybe my sites will get hit soon. I don't use AI to produce content. I'm actually building a new website now, but my main focus won't be SEO.

Hey Carl, My website got hit as well. Without wasting more time on recovering it, put my time and energy into my other business (travel). I registered a travel company in Sri Lanka by partnering with a wildlife expert and building a team. We design and operate tours (wildlife, leisure, and cultural tours). We are doing well in it. Currently looking for UK company or individual to partner with (3rd highest visits to Sri Lanka are from the UK). I know you are in both travel and wildlife niches, shall we have a chat and see whether we can have a partnership?

Are affiliate websites a waste of time after this update

This is my take. I was involved with the updates years ago which did the same thing to a lot of affiliates. What happened was you had to start from scratch and build sites more honestly aka white hat. My take is the same thing happened now. Not saying you haven’t been doing things dishonestly but you have to make sure you’re 120% white hat. No semi gray hat links etc etc etc. So like many others we had to start all over.

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