I thought I’d get around to finishing off all the niche sites today but didn’t turn out that way…there were still some issues with my hosting early in the day which made it hard to create sites, but I still managed to get 2 sites done which means I have 1 more to create before I start building backlinks for all of them with UAW.  I think after this, I won’t be creating any more sites in this niche, I’ve got 35 sites in it as it is, I’m going to branch out more…

In other news, a couple of the sniper sites that I had created previously were indexed on Google today so I went ahead and posted up the final review pages for those…I’ve now got 2 more I’m waiting on being indexed, in addition to the 2 I made today.

As far as going into new niches for sniper sites, I’ve already found 3 possible niches to head into and found a handful of keywords…I have a good understanding of all niches so it shouldn’t be too difficult for me to write on them.

Today I managed to get over 300 hops again, 347 to be exact, but I didn’t land any sales..things should pick up tomorrow though…it seems like my income is going to be over $1000 for this month ($899 in CB Sales + $15 Market Health + $70 Adsense) this would be an improvement over the $795 total in April and $622 in March.

Earnings For Today:

• $3.66 in Adsense
• Hops = 347

-Mike

So now that I just finished those 22 Sniper Sites in that 1 niche, I decided to go and create some backlinks for all of them.  I had already started with some of them so today I was able to do 4 more runs of UAW and thus get backlinks for 8 of the 22 sites (2 sites per UAW posting).

I have 8 more sites left to create links for using UAW which I’ll handle tomorrow, once that’s done, backlinking will be on autopilot for all of those sites and I should at the bare minimum get 20-30 registered backlinks for each website out of the run…possibly 50-60…I’ve scheduled the submission process at 7/day.

Now I wanted to mention something dirty that other affiliate marketers can do to you…

Site Sabotage.

You may remember that some time ago I made a Wordpress site that I queued up a bunch of my Ezine Articles to for Site #1…Well, that started ranking for my product’s keyword on page 1.  Now this niche is a seasonal niche and now that it’s summer, there’s a lot more people vying for page 1.  All of a sudden a bunch of brand new sites started popping up for my product keyword and pushing my main website off of the first page.

Another thing that has happened at EXACTLY the same time that these sites started appearing is my Wordpress site was banned due to terms of service violation.

You see, Wordpress does not like sites on it’s network that have any commercial intent.  That means no affiliate links.  All someone has to do to eliminate some of their competition is flag your Wordpress blog and there goes your site.

This same dirty tactic can be used on Hubpages as well….If an affiliate marketer wanted to eliminate some of their competition on the first page for a keyword where there were Hubpages ranking, all they’d have to do is flag the Hub a few times.

Anyway, that’s just a warning to you not to put too much stock in any 1 of these Web 2.0 sites…

Earnings For Today:

• $4.10 Sale for Site#3
• Adsense = $1.97
• Hops for today = 134!

I can’t believe how many hops I’m getting now…I got 81 hops total for my troublesome Sniper Site niche alone, that’s more than what I’d get from my authority sites on a good day!

Still no sales yet for those sites though.  If only the income increased along with these hops I would have double the income :>

Well…I got lucky in finding all these good highly searched keywords that I can rank easily for on the first page….If I can keep on finding these kinds of keywords and have them be profitable, that would be nice…

-Mike

Hey everyone,

So today I FINALLY got the last 2 sites in this niche completed…that makes for 22 sniper sites in this 1 niche…Each sniper site covers a keyword that has either 5k searches per month(phrase match), or 12-15/k searches a month(although there are a few that are in the 20-22k range).  For the sites that are now indexed, they are ALL ranking on page 1 of Google somewhere.  They’re now all generating about 50 hops a day it seems(yesterday it was around 45, today it is at 55).

Now 1/2 of these keywords are not too targeted because they are only 2 word phrases, however the other 1/2 are targeted 3 word phrases.. The overall total of hops generated so far by these 20 odd sites is now 404 hops/0 sales(about 25 of those don’t count as it’s me clicking, so I suppose it’s 379 hops).  I took a screenshot showing all the hops I’ve gotten from April 12th to May 11th to shed some more light on this…have a look (everything boxed in red are tracking ID’s for the high hop/no sale niche):

Now around 379 hops and no sales is pretty crazy, but when it’s spread out amongst all these sites like this, it doesn’t look QUITE as bad…What do you think about this?  Is it too early to say the keywords are no good?  It’s kind of frustrating seeing you have double the hops but no real change in income :/  BTW, you can have a look at my more successful sniper sites in there and what they’ve made in this past month.

Earnings For Today:

• $40.05 – 2 Sales, 1 from Site#1 and 1 from a Sniper Site!
• Adsense = $1.55

-Mike