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My First $1,000+ Adsense Day

Nov 14th, 2007 by Brent Wilson

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:

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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 :(

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16 Comments

  1. Juan Muriente on 15.11.2007 at 00:28 (Reply)

    Shouldn’t it be “My first $1,326.64 adsense day” then?
    Congrats! :)

    1. Brent Wilson on 15.11.2007 at 00:41 (Reply)

      I added a +. Better? :D

      1. Brian Cummiskey on 15.11.2007 at 00:42 (Reply)

        Testing double nesting :D

  2. Yogesh on 15.11.2007 at 01:23 (Reply)

    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.

  3. Hugo Vincent on 15.11.2007 at 15:11 (Reply)

    Congrats on the huge day.. Hopefully mustang headlines will keep coming.
    All the best

  4. Affiliate Unleashed on 16.11.2007 at 17:52 (Reply)

    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! :)

  5. Sammy Ashouri on 17.11.2007 at 04:47 (Reply)

    Awesome!

  6. Amin on 17.11.2007 at 05:43 (Reply)

    Well .. That’s strange but good for you .

  7. Gerald on 17.11.2007 at 05:47 (Reply)

    The screenshot looks genuine..Congrats

  8. Abhik on 17.11.2007 at 05:50 (Reply)

    Congratulation.. !!

  9. Jim Karter on 17.11.2007 at 09:14 (Reply)

    Thats great work man!:)

  10. Randy Brown on 17.11.2007 at 11:26 (Reply)

    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

  11. MillionEuroMan on 17.11.2007 at 16:44 (Reply)

    That was really impressive!

    Nice to see strategic work pays off…….

  12. Dollar on 18.11.2007 at 07:42 (Reply)

    Thats great, as the guy said above “strategic” work here. Thanks for the idea. I sure to keep that in mind.

  13. Tanuj on 23.11.2007 at 22:47 (Reply)

    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

  14. Chris on 06.02.2008 at 03:04 (Reply)

    Congrats! How much traffic were you getting?

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