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:
