Originally Posted by Raffles

This cuts both ways though, so its not all downside. All sites are seeing sharp drops in SEO traffic BUT so are the brands.

What can the brands do? They start to pump money into sites with a large established audience.

To take advantage, though, you need to a) sell your own ad space, b) sell sponsored content, c) allow sponsored social media content. We do all this and it is working well. None of the Boarding Area bloggers are.