Yeah, I think it might work. But I wonder if there are other factors in the rapidly fading traffic spike I experienced. First, this is a “sexy” subject–literally. It involves sex, simulated sex, solo sex, and illegal sex. Sex is all over the place. Second, it has a pretty face. Hollow-eyed, yes, but still a pretty face, and vulnerable to boot–so, Oprah’s female audience would be struck by the story based on that, alone. Also, it’s a criminal story. America loves crime. The bloodier, the better. Finally, the subject matter is Web-related–and while Oprah and the Web don’t really intersect much, she may have inadvertently “broke through” to a larger Web audience just because she did this story.

Still, I wonder if it would work, as an experiment?

On the other hand, it can’t be much fun surfing in the wake of a media whale.

Rich.
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You may be on to something there, Rich.

On Feb 14 I earned enough money from Google to buy a McChicken sandwich and a small diet Coke. That’s it. I’ll link to a graph of the income this month just to demonstrate.

Google adwords is definitely an exercise in incremental growth.

Rich.
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