It’s a week for blog traffic to escalate, it would seem. Early on in the week, one of my b5 blogs, Cooking Gadgets, received a link from Gizmodo (thanks to an quick email note to them) and was a featured blog of the day on Yahoo for Computers & Technology, and Food & Drink. I didn’t ask for the latter one - they supplied the directory information themselves, no less.

Well, the week of positive traffic has increased. Not long after that 4000 influx of visitors, Cooking Gadgets popped out of the Google Sandbox. She Knows Best is still stuck in, probably for at least another month, but that’s not the best of it. My other blogs, which have been quietly developing, all received the approval of Google too.

I have experienced the Sandbox up close & personal so many times now - it was the longest with Blogaholics, but all subsequent blogs have been in for shorter and shorter periods of time. It’s incredibly satisfying to wake up one day to more traffic, and more clicks. Even a PageRank of 0 is far better than one of N/A because it means you actually come up on some search terms.

I have one niche blog, from the bunch that are now out of the sandbox, that I knew was going to make a splash. And I was right. The CPM I already considered above-average has gone way up, with a CTR that I can only hope continues to be that high!

This has been a good week, and I love Google.

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