Harlow McGraw Media Site Shutting Down

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I remember the excitement I felt when I first found Writedge. It was a site created by fellow writers that seemed like the perfect place for writers to have a platform and to also make a little money. It was a great place for a while but for whatever reason, the site stopped making money, probably because the standards slipped and the owners didn't have time to invest in it anymore. At its peak, I had about 800 articles on the site. I have been slowly removing them and then the site stopped our ability to delete them. That was a bummer. Basically, our work was trapped on a site that earned us next to nothing. It is sad to see the site shutting down but they will close their doors at the end of August. The delete option has been reinstated so we can delete and deindex our articles. In addition to Writedge, Daily Two Cents was another of their sites. If you have written for them and want to save your content, you have 13 days to do so. I removed about 40 yesterday but I still have 180 just on Writedge, I think I will leave what I have on Daily Two Cents as they are mostly dated writing about events that won't have an audience now. This is the fourth or fifth site I have had to pull my content off of, Helium, Yahoo Voices, Examiner, Bubbews and now Writedge. This is exactly why I now have my own blogs, I am in control of them and I don't think Blogger is going to shut down any time soon. The day of content farms is definitely over, Google has changed their algorithm so many times that it makes earning money online as a writer more difficult.