Google Trends made me crap myself…

I checked twice, and nope it ain’t chocolate pudding…

I’ve been blogging recently about google trends and the ability to make money by capitalizing on popular topics. As far as I’m aware blogging about popular topics is not yet against google’s terms…

So last week I blogged about Hurricane Hannah, and Hurricane Gustav, and a few other topics. Friday I posted my last blog post for the holiday weekend. I moved this weekend, so I’ve been pretty busy, and haven’t been online once.

Today I got online, and I noticed that on Sunday alone my website had roughly 3000 unique hits. That’s more than I’ve ever had in a single day. I posted some really good blog posts on Friday about the new vice presidential candidates(Sarah Palin and Joe Biden), and so I thought perhaps that’s where the traffic was coming from…

I was dead wrong, I checked my counterize statistics, and apparently Tropical Storm Hannah, has become Hurricane Hannah, and has become an overnight hot topic. Having been one of the first to blog about it when it first hit the trends site I have been able to get a lot of traffic to my Hurricane Hannah blog post.

How many hits?
Tropical Storm Hannah - 18035 hits since the post was written (This was a whopping 22% of my traffic since the blog began!).

Folks, since my website has had about 90,000 hits total since March, that’s huge. My Hurricane Gustav track blog post brought in around 3818 hits(or 5% of my overall totall traffic).

My link bait post on the Presidential Candidates (16 Places to get the Dish on Joe Biden and Sarah Palin) brought in 2897 (this is 4% of my overall traffic - ever)…

So my question to you is:

Do you still doubt the power of Google Trends?

My advice is get in on this action before google does something to block it, they always seem to fight it when people find good ways to bring their site traffic.