Hurricane Ike is on it’s way to becoming a major Hurricane.

Hurricane Ike is moving westward at 16 mph. The current projected path for hurricane Ike is that it could be hitting the turks and caicos islands and the south eastern bahamas by early sunday.

Hurricane Ike is the 9th named storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.

Hurricane Ike started off the coast of Cape Verde in Africa near the end of August, Hurricane Ike has since tracked south of Cape Verde and developed into a category 3 hurricane.

Hurricane Ike’s projected path is to track through the Florida keys and head on up the florida Peninsula and north into the gulf. It is also feasible that Hurricane Ike may follow a path similar to Tropical Storm Hannah.

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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.

Hurricane Gustav which I picked up from google trends, as I’ve said for the past day or so has been a great keyword, and my site’s not even about weather related topics.

Jamie Meredith from OurBlogThing, asked to see some more detailed stats and perhaps some graphs, so here’s some of my stats from Google Analytics, this is really just the first few pages… as it has the most frequent traffic stats for the past few days since I started this experiment. The image is at the very bottom of this post - just click on it to make it bigger- as you can see from the pic, I did pretty well, without really exerting a lot of effort, it’s not like I wrote a 10 page article on hurricane gustav, it might’ve been 3 paragraphs.

“hurricane gustav track” 65 hits
“gustav track” 43 hits
“vancouver earthquake” 37 hits
“tropical storm hanna” 25 hits
“tropical storm hannah” 21 hits
“hurricane hannah 2008″ 19 hits
“mackenzie phillips” 15 hits
“hannah hurricane” 14 hits
“hurricane gustav” 12 hits
“hurricane gustav latest update” 11 hits
“latest update on hurricane gustav” 11 hits
“latest gustav track” 6 hits
“latest on hurricane gustav” 6 hits
“updates on hurricane gustav” 6 hits
“hanna hurricane” 5 hits
“hurricane hannah” 5 hits
“latest update on hurricane gustav” 5 hits
“latest updates on gustav” 5 hits
“gustav latest track” 4 hits
“track hurricane gustav” 4 hits
“hurricane gustav latest” 3 hits
“hurricane gustav latest updates” 3 hits
“latest updates of gustav” 3 hits
“storm hannah” 3 hits
“vancouver earthquake august 2008″ 3 hits
“hanna hurricane 2008″ 2 hits
“hanna+hurricane” 2 hits
“latest info on hurricane gustav” 2 hits.

“Hurricane Gustav” = 118 Hits total

“Hurricane Hannah” = 96 hits total

“Vancouver Earthquake” = 40 hits

“mackenzie phillips” = 15 hits

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• Tropical Storm Hannah brews could she become Hurricane Hannah?

Yesterday, I gave an update on Hurricane Gustav, today it appears another tropical storm has developed. Tropical storm Hannah has been upgraded from a tropical depression 8. It’s days like this I’m happy I live in Ohio, we never see Hurricanes. Tropical Storm Hannah, is the 8th Tropical storm of this Hurricane Season.

It’s too early to tell but many are predicting that Tropical Storm Hannah won’t become Hurricane Hannah, but nobody can be certain at this juncture.

For more info on Tropical Storm hannah, be sure to check the related resources.

(This post is part of my google trends experiment - if this is your first time visiting I welcome you, and let you know this is the place to learn all you need to know about building a blog and making money from it…I’d be honored if you’d subscribe to my rss feed - it’s free!)

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