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I was considering starting a business where the main traffic source would be SEO based, but based on all the gloom and doom around search I decided to hold off.

Hard to say exactly how bad it’s getting right now. Lots of horror stories out there.

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I built a protein comparison site (aggregating nutrition, ingredients, electrolytes, prices) and I expected a little bit of traffic, but I'm getting less than a single visitor every 2 days from google. It's absolutely dead.

A year ago I threw together a tiny little site with some datamined assets from a game (deadlock) that randomly got indexed and saw a couple hundred visits a month from google.

Honestly that might be a mistake, when the consensus is greedy get scared and when it's scared get greedy

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