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Yesterday I got my first day of 10 visits, so if I can sustain and grow that traffic, I will have completed my first goals.

A few factors have recently helped me to get this traffic. The articles I submitted just got approved, which has not only gotten me traffic, but has also helped out on SEO. Every article i write gives me an extra inbound link or two. The day after they were approved, the ranking on Google for “Danny Gabriner” jumped ahead of my Facebook and LinkedIn profiles to #1. I have noticed gains on other terms as well, and hope to soon have my tool available to automatically track my ranking progress.

I have also noticed that bots are beginning to find me, post spam comments, and steal my content. Not that this is necessarily a good thing, but at least it means I’m getting noticed, and I am getting some inbound links from it.

Jason Menayen also just wrote a post listing a few blogs, resources, and forums which deal with AdSense. I am happy to have been listed there, as it will drive traffic my way, is a solid inbound link, and gives me a bit of credibility. I am also very excited to learn about the other resources out there, and plan on exploring the areas he listed.

So it looks like I will need to be setting some new goals for myself. I will be thinking about these, but in the mean time I wiki continue to post, comment elsewhere, and submit my articles.

I have always been a bit lost when it comes to Twitter. I started off using it by following a few people who had blogs I read, but because I was only following these few people, I was pretty much getting their blog posts recycled back to me.

A short while ago, twitter bought Summarize, and turned it into search.twitter.com. This tool is very useful for quite a few reasons. First of all, you can search for your niche topics (like optimizing AdSense), and find people who have either just posted, or who are interested in your topic. This is similar to searching on Google, but there are some added benefits.

First of all, the content is much fresher, as many of Google’s results will be years old (although some of those can be good too). Second, if people are asking questions or are having difficulty with something, you can respond to them directly and immediately. So not only are you finding good resources, but you are establishing yourself in a community of people interested in the same topics as yourself.

As you begin to find these people on Twitter who share your interests, you can refer them to your posts, and if you have good enough content, gain some dedicated readers.

Digging around the YieldBuild Blog, I just noticed a Trackback from “Optimize AdSense for your Blog”. Considering I am trying to find other bloggers in this niche, I followed the link to their site, and found that they are a blog that only writes snippets of other people’s blogs. The great thing is that all the posts are AdSense related. Not all of the articles are things I am interested in, as much of it is very basic, but it looks like I will be able to find many other bloggers through this resource that are writing about some of the same things I am.

I have been looking for some sort of centralized directory, but have been unable to find all of the bloggers out there who talk about AdSense. Both Digg and Technorati had very little in the way of “optimizing adsense”. So I am happy to have found this resource, and will definitely be looking around it for a while. I will let you know what comes out of it.