Hi, I was making around $10-12 on one of blogs and day before yesterday CNN featured one of my posts on their website and It has sent me insane amount of traffic and about 1200 ADsense clicks a day for $100-110. It's been going on for 3 days now. Finally when the clicking spree ended..Foxnews.com featured it and I've made $100 in about 12 hours so far.. The point of my post is that I have contacted Google just to tell them about the unusual activity and I guess they didn't care and sent me an Auto-Response..so I'm cool with Adsense right...It's CNN and Foxnews! Nothing to worry about right? Anyways...I'm really excited about making $400 in 4 days Thank GOD for all this
Hehe...I'm sorry I really can't disclose it right now...but if you must know..It's a Celebrity blog and they featured one of the 2009 Celebrity Calendar .... anything...if any pros are looking into this...I'm cool with Adsense right?
Well its a good chance that you have got.. just like a press release.. and blast of traffic.. that has given you certainly a really good hike.. Now we realize the advantage of being featured somewhere like this.
Of course you are 100% ok with AdSense. They MAY send you an email inquiring about the traffic boost but yeah, it's 100% legit traffic of course. Congrats, you will have a LOT of traffic for the next few months! Advice: 1. If you don't have an RSS feed set one up NOW! 2. Try monetizing further with in-text ads/other ad-types that are ok together with adsense 3. Start a newsletter and offer sign-ups Drop me a PM if you want more advice, good work!!
Thanks for the tips Alex but I'm already using them all...I got 200 new subscribers in one day and umm Inline text ads are just some extra cash to add in my pocket...while Im making $100 on adsense...inline text ads are getting me around $15-25 each day....Im using "Infolinks" I've actually emailed Adsense about it as well ..Just wanted to let them to know about the Boost from CNN and Foxnews and I got an auto reply which means it isn't a big deal... For all the guys who think there is some secret...well I'd say I'm pure lucky...I just can't thank God enough for all this...I wouldn't have imagined $400 in first 4 days of the month...even tho i make $1000 monthly..but this is beautiful..
How many visitors did you received? Because a friend of mine got his blog featured on national tv, and several news websites like CNN and he was only getting like 15k a day from it.
I think he was living his life before. Just because you make $400 doesn't mean anyone's going retire and move to Bali. I'm not saying that having your article featured on CNN isn't cool...I think it's awesome, but you'd have to sustain that kind of income and traffic for the long haul to really have it change your life.
I vaguely recall someone else quite a long time ago saying their calender was linked to by CNN as well. I can't remember precisely, but vaguely, it was a very smilar type of thing.