I discovered this when I blogged about the 30-minute Obama ad where I linked to a CNN article. Minutes after blogging about it, I started receiving referral traffic from CNN. I found out that my blog post got a link from the “From the Blogs” section of their article under “Blogs linking to this story:”. Since that article was popular at that time, it sent my blog at least 60 new unique visitors from CNN.com.
The next time, I blogged about Obama winning the USA election. I linked again to a CNN article. And it sent me at least 35 new unique visitors.
Here’s a screen shot of my Google Analytics showing CNN referred visitors. (click for a larger view)
CNN on my Google Analytics
And here’s a screen shot of my link from CNN.com.
Macuha.com On CNN.com
I actually twitted about it, Dexter tried it and he got his link on the CNN.com website too as you can see from the screen shot above. 🙂
Wow thanks for sharing that mhargil… ma try din nga po wehehehe…
Actually, I was thinking of McCain’s speech when he conceded but still think of a nice approach. I have a post that tackled the recent US Election using a link from BBC but had nothing. Maybe it’s time to switch to CNN….lol!
Thanks for sharing!
@Angel… i’ve been linking to different news sources before, but after discovering this, I will check first if CNN has the story and link to them before any other sources. 🙂
Wow really? Too bad di ako naglink sa CNN nung time na un. Cge, pag mga big news gaya nung last US presidential election, hanap ako ng magandang link sa kanila, hehe.. Thanks for the tip.
sa tingin ko i should listen to the expert…hehhehe…salamat marhgil for sharing this.. galing talaga.. sana ako din bumaha rin ang traffic tulad mo. 😉
Buti na lang nakita ko yung tweet mo 🙂 at nakuha ko agad yung idea ang tried it 🙂 , Thanks sa link 🙂
wow, nice info sir…i’m beginning to love this SEO na tuloy everyday. 😀
wow galing ah! segurado ako maganda resulta ng rankings mo sa serps nyan kasi PR9 yung naglink sayo.
naku sayang naman…di ako naglink sa CNN nun…gawin ko yan next time. thanks sa tip, master!
salamat marghil…technique ko na rin siya…^_^
hmm… ganun pala yun…
any other sites that would be good to link at aside from CNN? (& macuha.com of course 😉 )
I’ll definitely keep an eye on CNN now for when they post news stories that relate to my niches. Thanks!
ill try to link in cnn..thanks
CNN is quite a reputed name. So obviously if you can manage to get a link from them, it could be a big hit. And you could get droves of traffic.
thanks for the great tip!