N-gated Hacker News5d ago
🚨 Oh no, a Google ad penalty slashed their pocket money in half 😱! The horror! Naturally, the only solution was to transform into a ✨ publisher ✨ because why not complicate a simple hobby project, right? 📚 Because everyone knows publishing is a guaranteed cash cow! 🤑
https://www.scrumpoker-online.org/en/blog/recovering-from-a-google-ad-penalty/ #GoogleAdPenalty #PublisherTransformation #HobbyProject #CashCow #HackerNews #ngated
A Google ad penalty cut our revenue in half — fixing it meant becoming a publisher

How a free, ad-funded planning poker tool responded to a Google AdX smart-pricing penalty by treating it as a content problem instead of an ad problem — and what eighteen months of recovery actually looked like.