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Originally Posted by Shap
I think I was getting 50,000 uniques a day to my site back then. When Dateline aired HOLY SHIT! I got so much traffic from that one link. I think it may have hit 250,000 uniques. All I know is that in the days after that I was able to sustain the growth in traffic and where I used to get 50,000 uniques I was now getting 125,000 and growing fast. From that point on business never stopped growing. That little bump was exactly what I needed. Thanks Wetlands!!
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Similar situation here. I was linked from a major Everything/Nothing blog in 2001 that increased my daily traffic by more than 20 times. It was only a new site with a modest amount of its own traffic, so that link helped push it along nicely. I figured out how to monetise it not long after (banners and links to affiliate progs, plus a paid member area) so from that point on my hobby became a career.
I still have that first site open today and it is still responsible for the majority of my income.