Here in week #4 of my Project Google Sniper, I didn’t spend that much time on my sniper sites, as I have been busy with another project and got quite a lot going on in my private life at the moment. This week brought a few suprises, as my Site #2, which generated most of my hops, got Google Sandboxed or something like that. Thursday 12/11-09 the site just disappeared from the search rankings – it is still indexed in Google if you make a site:domain search, but it doesnt show up in the SERPs and get no visits from Google.

12 of 12 done

The good news this week, is that I got the last 2 sites up and all 12 sniper sites are now indexed. As I dont got much time to work on my sniper sites this week, I will take a break creating new sites and finding new niches, and instead focus on making all the sites show up in the search results, get good rankings in Google and test what works and doesnt work.

The good thing is that the 6 new keywords I found (Site #7-12) seems to be doing really great in Google on the choosen term, without any form of work done with them. I only submitted them to the different bookmarking sites to get the indexed, and didnt do anything else. My next step over the next couple of weeks, is to submit at least 1 UAW article and 1-2 EzineArticles for each site. Some of them are already generating good traffic, but no sales yet, so I can only imagine that creating some more backlinks and testing with more content and affiliate link placement will help me to make my first CB sale.

Amazon Is In The Lead

I made another sale of $4.80 on Amazon this week, which makes Amazon the only thing I am actually selling right now. There can be different explanations for this, some of them is that the site is doing pretty well in Google, getting quite a bit of traffic – but the most likely is, that the site is pinpoint to buying customers in the right season. It is a micro-niche under Christmas, so I actually dont expect to sell anything the rest of the year. But each Christmas there is a huge market potential for this, so when the season is over this year, the domain and site can age for the next year, and hopefully make even more income next year.
Giving my success with Amazon, even though it is not a lot of money so far, I am really tempted to make a few other niche sites directly related to niche-categories on Amazon, and see if I can duplicate this process. I’d like to find a niche with much more expensive products as the percentage from Amazon is so low.

If you have any questions, feedback or good ideas, maybe something you would like me to test, please feel free to leave a comment here. I’d also like to hear about other peoples experience with Google Sniper sites and maybe also with Google AdSense Sniper sites, as I’d like to try some AdSense sniping soon.

Project Google Sniper – Week #4

Sniper sites created: 12
Sites indexed: 12
Backlinks to all sites: 765 (+463)

Google rankings on main keyword
Site #1: None
Site #2: None (Google Slapped / Sandboxed)
Site #3: 7 (+0)
Site #4: 37 (+2)
Site #5: 17 (Now ranking)
Site #6: 9 (-3)
Site #7: 3 (+11)
Site #8: 3 (+4)
Site #9: 5
Site #10: 7
Site #11: 3
Site #12: 5

Clickbank hops: 70 (-18) (New analytics) / 116 (-6) (Old analytics) / 84 (-73) (Own stats)
Amazon clicks: 79 Clicks
Amazon Earnings: $4.80 (1.27% Conversion Rate)