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Googled killed my $1,000/mo blog. Why shouldn't I just sell backlinks?

Like the title says, I had a blog I started (tech/travel/culture space) that I built up for 18 months, with like 60 articles. It was as making steady $1,000 a month (almost all from Amazon Associates from 2-3 articles), but then it got smacked in one of the Google Updates half a year ago and lost 90% of traffic overnight.

It makes about $10 a month now, if that, and has stayed that way for 6 months since the google update.

My thought is that if this site will never recover, I don't really mind trashing it's signals to google, so why shouldn't I just go on Fiverr and sell backlinks to make $20 a pop or something?

Just curious if anyone's been in a similar situation and tried this out, or if there's anything I'm overlooking/underthinking.

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