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Ran a clickbait site, and got flagged for using a bunch of 302 redirects instead of 301s. Went from almost 500k uniques a month to 1k.

During the appeal it was reviewed from India, and I had been using geoblocking. This caused my appeal to be denied.

I ended up deploying to a new domain and starting over.

Never caught back up.



Congrats on this great choice of business endeavor


I hear this a lot. I'm self-taught and had just been let go from my first dev job ever. I was broke and desperate so I built something.

I have been ashamed of it at multiple times in my career, but tbh I built something that fed, sheltered, and clothed me. It was worth.

I also learned a lot.




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