Today I decided to get back into creating more Sniper Sites…I created 2 more Sniper Sites in a niche that I’m in which brings the total to 14 sites in this niche(and 31 sniper sites in total).  It’s a niche which is getting me a lot of hops but has yet to generate a sale(I got 35 hops for it just today and 163 in total), I believe its because the keywords are not all very targeted…some of the keywords are only 2 words(I went after them because there was just so much potential traffic).

Seems like the hops are on the rise though seeing as how I got 35 for that niche today, so hopefully things will change soon.

Now when it comes to building a new Sniper Site, this is basically the process I follow:

• install the blog
• FTP my plugins, cloaked redirect htmls(from Ninja Link Cloaker) and the theme  for my site
• install and setup the plugins
• setup the widgets
• edit the theme a bit, change the footer
• add a contact us/about us/privacy policy page
• post a welcome post
• post a tip post or video
• bookmark the site with Bookmarking Demon
• Digg the site
• Add the site to Friendfeed.com
• Register a Feedburner feed and associate it to the site
• Submit the RSS feed via RSS Submit, SENuke and RSS Traffic Bot

Then, once the site is inexed and showing up in Google, I go back and post a review as a static page (via settings – reading in Wordpress).

After I created the 2 sites today, I spent some time looking for some good keywords in other niches…I want to find some more killer ones that have crazy amounts of searches (like 10-20k phrase match) but that are more buying keywords.

Earnings For Today:

• Adsense = $1.24
• No Affiliate sales, however I got 108 hops today

-Mike

Thanks for dropping by…if you’re reading this, chances are you know me from the Nicheblogger forum or perhaps Firepow…Either way I’ll write up a bit of a synopsis:

I decided to make a serious go at IM around mid June 2008.  I had my first sale for around $30 during the last few days of July, so about 1 1/2 months after I started putting in some work…Following that, I made $116.17 in August and then $323.90 in September.

A lot of those sales were the result of me going crazy on Ezine Articles, I had submitted 77 articles in August and 107 articles in September (You can see a more detailed explanation of the profit I made by visiting my “Earnings By Month” section)…These sales were coming from 3 main sites I had been working on and making posts to.

In October I stopped the Ezine Article submission and my income dropped to $268.84, the month of November it was $187.32 and in December it was $235.89.  At this point I was getting frustrated with my income not going anywhere and that’s when I came across the Niche Blogger.

Since around December 28th of 2008 I began logging my IM related activities on the NB forum on a daily basis.  I found that after I had created the thread on the forum, I had a sense of obligation to then follow through and make sure I have something to post about every day, this sense of accountability helped my business out tremendously.

I also began queuing up posts to my blogs and setting them on autopilot for 6 months, something I had never done before…I set my blogs up to post twice a week for the next 6 months (60 queued posts)….Once I had done that, I began creating new sites and queuing up 60 posts for each of those sites as well…

My income in January 2009 was $301.14..

And my income in February 2009 was $325.17..

But after putting forth consistent work into managing my blogs and promoting them, my income FINALLY began to increase!  Through constantly updating my main 3 sites and using promotional methods such as Unique Article Wizard, SENuke, Bookmarking Demon and by adding Adsense to my sites and using various other tactics, here are the results I was able to achieve:

March 2009 = $622.44 (A good deal of this increase was due to running SENuke 10-15 times.  This brought a lot Site #1’s rankings from page 2-3 to page 1 of Google.)

April 2009 = $795.19 (I got another increase here when I began to create Sniper Sites as per George’s “Google Sniper” method which is similar to Andrew Hansen’s Niche Marketing On Crack.)

In the upcoming posts, I’ll be sharing with you all that I’m doing on a day to day basis and show you the results those actions are bringing. My hope for this site is that it becomes an open area of discussion where people can come and are free to ask questions, give their input, talk about their own progress or talk about what is being done…

I’d very much like to hear your feedback, as you have all helped me to achieve this with your input and support, feel free to leave comments or ask questions and I will do my best to reply back to you :>

Being that I’m on this path as you are, I hope you’re able to gain a lot from my perspective and use any insights you get by following along to improve your businesses.

Here’s to conquering this IM business once and for all!

-Mike