Come to think of it. I had a blog with a page rank of 3 and was able to do some low level sponsored posting and at the time actually was able to buy my family Christmas presents in 2007 with the advertising. Then my page rank got tossed to 0 and suddenly I was unable to monetize my blog and the extra $ that I was able to earn stopped. At the time my wife was out of work my farm was going under and I was working 2 jobs. I really needed that extra $ at the time and they basically told me to pound sand as I was apparently not worthy to earn money.