Project Google Sniper – Week #2

As I announced last week, I will be making weekly posts with updates from my new Affiliate Marketing project – “The Google Sniper Experience”. Like I wrote last week, this project is very interesting and I still have quite high hopes for it. I used all of last week to try to focus on my current sniper sites, to see which ones works and are getting rankings and traffic from Google, to see what works best.

I also started submitting articles to UAW (Unique Article Wizard) to test how much effect this have to the sites ranking. So far I haven’t been able to see results from this, though I expect it to give good results on a long term strategy. It seems like a nice way to get long-term backlinks, but it doesn’t give you a lot of fast backlinks. So far, none of my articles have shown up in the backlinks search. The backlinks count is pretty high because I posted some comments on DoFollow blogs and blogs with Top Commenters, which gives a lot of backlinks.

I have only built 6 sites so far, but only a few of them is starting to get decent traffic. Site #2 is doing really well, and getting a lot of traffic on long tail keywords, as well as a bit traffic on the main keyword. Site #3 is pretty interesting because I’m not promoting a Clickbank product, but choose to play a bit with Amazon referral. The site is starting to receive a bit of traffic from Google on long-tail searches, and has a pretty amazing CTR (Click-Through Rate) with 11 clicks from just 25 unique visitors. No sales yet though, but I am hoping Amazon keep their tracking cookies for a while, so there might be a chance of getting revenue next time the visitor buys something from Amazon. The referral rate is pretty low though, at just 4% – but the more items you sell from Amazon, the higher it will get (up to 8%). I will probably try to add a few more sniper sites to Amazon products and see how it goes, but I’m not sure if this is worth it. Probably depends on the niche that you focus on, and what the costumers buy.

I have also added the number of hops I got last week. There is quite a big difference on the new and the old Clickbank analytics, so I’m not sure which one is most correct. To confirm these results however, I coded my own little tracking-system, so every time someone clicks on my Clickbank affiliate links, it saves it in my database. I started tracking day-by-day clicks today, and will try to compare these results with the ones from Clickbank analytics, to see if there is a difference. Also the hop statistic from last week is a bit affected by testing some of the links, but should be no more than 10-12 hops.