My First $1,000+ Adsense Day
After my last two slightly negative posts I thought I’d make this post a little bit more on the positive side. November 6th Ford released official information and pictures on the new 2008 Bullitt Mustang so all that night I was busy getting my Mustang site updated with the pictures and news. I knew that this news was going to be every where. CNN had already done an article on it and I knew people were going to be searching for it. I rank number 1 in Yahoo for 2008 Bullitt Mustang (guess where I rank in Google…). I also know that Yahoo has a section on their main page that highlights the days top 10 searched items. So about 5PM Nov. 7th my site starts feeling a bit sluggish. I log in to the server and run a quick top stats to see my server load over 10. What I thought had happened initially was that I had hit the main page of Digg because I submitted my article to it. After I confirmed that wasn’t the case I opened up Mint and saw nothing but search referrals coming in from Yahoo. To make a long story short this is what it ended up looking like as far as earnings:
Total uniques for that day was 52,000. The next day the traffic continue up until around 5PM when it finally was removed from the main page of Yahoo. Needless to say I was very thrilled with the end results. I also ended up doing real well with an affiliate system I had set up and of course Tribal Fusion and Vibrant Media paid extremely well.
So to all of those that just concentrate on doing good in Google you may miss out on what other search engines have to offer. Especially since Yahoo is beginning to push their SERPs real hard on their main page.
Oh and check out how bad weekends are for me. Especially holiday weekends :(
November 15th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Shouldn’t it be “My first $1,326.64 adsense day” then?
Congrats! :)
November 15th, 2007 at 12:41 am
I added a +. Better? :D
November 15th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Testing double nesting :D
November 15th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Congrats, I had experienced similar thing when a local car manufacture released new version of its SUV. Though not nearly as much traffic as you got, but I got decent enough traffic and to make it even better, the review was posted by a member.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Congrats on the huge day.. Hopefully mustang headlines will keep coming.
All the best
November 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Great job! Did you use any email capture system to retain any of those visitors?!
Next time this happens you should consider a system like that to capitalize even more of the traffic! :)
November 17th, 2007 at 4:47 am
Awesome!
November 17th, 2007 at 5:43 am
Well .. That’s strange but good for you .
November 17th, 2007 at 5:47 am
The screenshot looks genuine..Congrats
November 17th, 2007 at 5:50 am
Congratulation.. !!
November 17th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Thats great work man!:)
November 17th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Dude, that’s flibbin awesome!
It goes to show that keeping your eye on current news, and doing the work to turn it to your advantage can really pay off.
congratulations
November 17th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
That was really impressive!
Nice to see strategic work pays off…….
November 18th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Thats great, as the guy said above “strategic” work here. Thanks for the idea. I sure to keep that in mind.
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Hey
How did you get 140k Impressions in a day whereas you were getting 7k per day?
It would be great if you tell us :D
February 6th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Congrats! How much traffic were you getting?
May 27th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
This is really cool, I hope to get to that point someday. May I ask what the niche was, I was referred by one of your posts at vbseo.com and didnt hear the whole story.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:15 am
It was an Automotive site.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I’m surprised you’d post this up, this is a violation of Google Adsense Terms and can get you banned from the program altogether.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
No it’s not.