We’re coming up on the 1 year anniversary of my two myspace sites getting severely penalized by Google. It happened at the end of October 2007. I’ve called the it the day I was murdered by Google. Getting penalized caused a massive hit to my monthly earnings, and even a year later now I still haven’t come close to what I used to be making. But I’ve learn to live without it.

I’m wondering though… do you think Google sets specific time limits on penalties? Is there a possibility that one the one year anniversary my penalty will be lifted?

I’m not holding my breath… and anyways, the whole myspace craze is over now. Check out this Google Trends graph of the search term “myspace layouts”. You can see in early 2007 the myspace craze started to peak. Anyone who was making serious cash from resource sites should have sold out then. Of course there was no way to predict it would top out so soon.

I’ll be sure to keep everyone updated on the status of my sites in the coming weeks.