May 22nd, 2009 | 
Author: After checking my Adsense account today, I noticed that my income for the European cruise blog is already up around $40 today. Obviously I needed to know why the sudden increase in income and I can attribute it to a few things..
- I have had a number of clicks over the $2 mark today, which is quite exeptional. There must be some big advertisers who are doing placements on my blog now.
- A big increase in traffic due to reaching page 1 of Google for the keyword phrase European Cruises in the USA and the top of the 2nd page in the UK.
- Other keywords from various other articles on the blog are rising to the top of Google at last.
Will my blog stay up on page 1 for that phrase now? I really, really don’t know. Earlier this week, it dropped down to page 7 on Google for that phrase so I never take anything for granted with Google. I am sure eventually it will settle onto page 1..
Anyway, watch this space! 
EDIT: I just noticed a lot of traffic coming from Germany and checked on German Google and noticed it is in the top 5!
Congratulations on the success! I enjoy reading about the progress. How much of the recent surge do you attribute to the fact that it is vacation season?
Hi,
congratulations!
Can you tell us how many daily visitors have you now and how many page view?
Thanks a lot for you great work.
Mr. Gabb