My sudden drop from $900 a month to $350...and going lower!

I was having a great start to the year. Each month I kept the momentum going with my adsense earnings. I was not doing anything blackhat. January was $200, Feb $300, March $500, April $900, May $700, June $700, and July is looking like I will land around the $350 mark.

I started aquiring sites on Flippa around February. I spent 5k on 6 sites. I also had one of my own sites that I designed that made up half this revenue.

My earnings seemed to peak with the latest algo update.

I signed up for the learn with adsense program and made the mistake of cracking a few jokes on the message board about the presenters (Google employees) ....and filled in a few forms with my publisher ID to be possibly used in the course as an example. BIG MISTAKE.

That was 4 weeks ago....the following week I was smart priced. I was still getting the same traffic, however my clicks were only paying a third of what they had been. Obviously I had a manual review and they did not like what they saw. That's cool.....I just wish they would tell me what was wrong, what site they had an issue with. Now my main money site took a major hit along with all the others.....all of them went down 60%. Perhaps one of the sites I purchased had some issues ....links, whatever....something they did not like. One site did have some lame content on half the pages.....I pulled adsense off it right away hoping to reverse the smart pricing.

The bleeding has not stopped Today I see my main money site....half my earnings has dropped from number one to number 13 for my main keyword that drives 40 percent of my traffic.

I obviously pissed one of the nerds off at big G.

Fellow warriors, do not make the same mistake as I did. If you have a good thing going, keep your trap shut and do not risk a manual review from big G.

Back to the drawing board.