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I'm the guy behind Hatchlings. The site referenced was a small content site I made to drive Amazon referrals for Guitar Hero 4 pre-orders. It was SEO'd and at

by yeldarb 15y ago

I'm the guy behind Hatchlings. The site referenced was a small content site I made to drive Amazon referrals for Guitar Hero 4 pre-orders. It was SEO'd and at the top of the search results for "Guitar Hero 4" at the time so it generated quite a bit in affiliate revenue but almost nothing in terms of Adsense. They never told me what was wrong with it but if I had to make a guess it might have been flagged as a "Made for Adsense" site since it was pretty light on content. And as mentioned I removed the ads from it without as much as a rebuttal. It was a no-brainer since it was so small-time compared to Hatchlings.

boon 15y ago
Did you ever get the sense that they did this because they are planning to release a competing product?
- yeldarb 15y ago
  No but Google Plus was released only a couple of months after this ordeal started. We would have loved to have been a part of the launch of their platform.