Jason Bartholme’s SEO Blog

Yesterday, you brightened my morning by telling me that my Adsense was well above my daily average. My co-workers noticed a bounce in my step and sly grin from ear-to-ear. The traffic and click revenue of my article directory soared as the morning went on. By noon, your statistics told me I had exceeded my best day for Adsense income.

I felt like I was out of your fabled sandbox, and that there was no duplicate content penalties. I believed that you we noticing the little article directory that could. The traffic still kept growing. Analytics was showing my keywords I had never seen before. I was ranking on the first page of terms like these:

1. • Size 0 diet
2. • How to get rid of man boobs
3. • Free PSP downloads
4. • fast pocket bikes

I was suspect that someone was getting my hopes up, but the clicks were coming in throughout the site. The usual categories were performing as usual, but with exponential volume.

By 3:00pm, you told me I had lapped my previous personal best. I ran home from work to right click on my Adsense Notifier in Firefox with more clicks and revenue with every refresh. I went to bed at night with a sense of accomplishment. Also, my hours and hours of enhancing the site, approving articles, and building links were beginning to pay off.

I woke up in the early morning and ran downstairs to see what if today was going to be just as good. You broke my heart, Google. My stats were just as they were earlier in the week. It was if yesterday never happened. Yesterday, you gave me a double digit click though rate, from over 2,200 ad impressions, over 1,100 new visitors, and more Adsense revenue that I make in two weeks. Today, you told me with was just an anomaly, and to keep trying.

I say this with a heavy heart, Google. I’ll keep trying just as hard until you notice me again.