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		Matsta on Oct 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Your best passive income sources? Facebook was definitely my biggest earner until they decided to crack down on everything at the end of last year and basically screwed everyone over. It's the same deal for SEO, used to be a easy way to promote Adsense, CPA offers and what not, but the penguin change just makes it harder and harder to rank for keywords. 2012 has been definitely a slow year for Internet marketing, the worst I've faced since I started in 2006.

robryan on Oct 11, 2012 [–]

You could argue that this stuff being harder is actually a good thing for the end user. The stuff that is still around is likely offering more value.

Coming from someone who has done a fair bit of CPA/ Adsense stuff in the past myself.

cgag on Oct 11, 2012 | [–]

I think it'd be pretty hard to argue otherwise.

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