Google Sniper Earnings Week Three - Day 2

Morning all!

I guess this is one of those pick yourself up - dust yourself off - and start all over again days.

Some major slippage in rankings occurred last night.

Google Sniper Site#1 - is now on Page 2 - 3rd down
Google Sniper Site #2 - dropped to Page 14!!!
Google Sniper Site #3 - went from page 21 up to 17
Google Sniper Site #4 - pre-launched and indexed - needs finishing touches

Will definitely need to put 2 new posts on sites 1 and 2 today and see if I can get it back up the list. Have no idea why Site #2 slipped so badly. Unfortunately I wanted to focus more on Site #4 today but it looks like updating posts is more important before I fall off Google altogether.

Little disappointing I have to admit, but then again no one said this was going to be a piece of cake. No earnings yet...but I refuse to let that stop me. Like I said, I want to do at least 10 sniper sites before I make any judgments, because I am a newbie and still have a lot to learn.

As for # of visitors to sites:

Google Site #1 - 8 visitors
Google Site # 2 - 4 visitors
Google Site #3 - 2 visitors
Google Site #4 - just launched

Will keep you "posted" it's going to be a busy day...

Google Sniper Earnings Week Two - Day Six

Happy Halloween!

Well as I mentioned I wasn't able to devote much time to my sites due to fun family stuff. Getting my sons halloween costume, parade at school, stuff like that and of coarse Trick or Treating this afternoon.

Current status of my sites is as follows:

Site #1 - Page 1 of Google - 9th spot down
Site # 2 - Page 2 of Google - 6th spot down
Site #3 - Page 21 of Google (yikes!) doesn't matter what spot down.

Nothing much has changed in the past two days in terms of the sites moving up so I believe some tweaking will be in order. I need to add at least one more post to sites #1 and #2 and see if I can nudge it up the Google ladder a little. I am truly determined to get them both on Page 1 of Google in spots #1 and #2. Due to the unique keywords involved - this is very possible.

I think I also know what the problem is with site #3. That would be that there are not enough LSI keywords. Basically LSI keywords are the "related keywords" that Google search engines look for in your posts.

While I have my actual long tail keyword mentioned quite a few times in my posts - I don't have many of these extra keywords in there to bring it sufficient attention from Google. This is something else I need to work on.

As for Google Site #4 - it is temporarily on hold until I finish the 3 or 4 posts I mentioned above. I decided to go a different way on this one. On Google Site #4 I am going to advertise a specific product. In this case it is the very hot Zhu Zhu pets toy that so many children seem to want this holiday season.

While this won't be easy, because it is so popular - I did happen to find a keyword that doesn't have impossible competition. This one is strictly a trial run to see how it fares -- though interest will probably wane in it after the holidays. I hope to have this up and running by Wednesday 11/4.

Article Writing Earnings

As I've also mentioned, I did not write a single article this month due to my focus on the Google Sniper program.

The bad news is I miss the extra couple of hundred dollars this normally brings in and in hindsight regret not writing at least a couple of them....

The good news is however, I got to see how much I am earning in strictly passive income without touching a thing and that came out to be a little over $100 this month. That is income just from the articles I already have up - and while it is in no means a fortune - it is good to know that slowly but surely my past efforts are paying.

It excites me to think about how that amount willl increase when I get the hang of Google Sniper and have those sites bringing in passive income as well.

Ehow Earnings

I am happy to report that Ehow "dismissed" that whole plagiarism issue and my article is back up and live where it should be. I had a feeling it was only a matter of time before they discovered it was an error. I still don't know what is going to happen going forward however with this new plan they have in place with previewing articles before publishing, but I guess I will find out next week when I start writing articles again.

Well, that is all there is to report for now...Happy Halloween everyone!

Google Sniper Earnings Week Two - Day Three

O.K. Had a few ups and downs over the last couple of days.

We'll start with the downs because I always like to end on a happy note.

As you might remember I had Google site #3 up and pre-launched over the weekend. I was waiting for it to be indexed on Google before adding the finishing touches (an important part of the Google Sniper program). Sure enough on Monday morning I go to see if it was indexed and couldn't find the site at all! When I typed the url directly into Google it automatically went to an old website that I didn't even own the domain to anymore!

Naturally I called Godaddy who is my host to find out what the problem was and they said they couldn't figure out what the problem was either. All the woman could tell me was that it seemed I no longer had any files at all in my new domain and because it was less than 24 hours they didn't even have a back-up to send me.

Needless to say this did not make me happy. I had to start all over again, re-insert wordpress and other plug-ins, redesign the site to get it back to where I wanted and I lost some serious time. After doing a little research, I have found that Godaddy is probably not the best host for me to have. They suffer glitches fairly often, so after I get my initial goal of 10 sniper sites up I might switch over to BlueHost which Google Sniper recommends.

The Good news however is... Thank goodness I saved the posts in Notepad!! If I had to rewrite 4 posts from scratch I would have really been unhappy - so just as a reminder - ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR WORK - you never know what could happen.

So the other good news. Even though I had to start from scratch the site got indexed the same day! Which is awesome, so I still got the site fully launched on Monday anyway.

The other, other good news is that Google Sniper Site #1 made it to the first page of Google already! Yay! From zero to page 1 in seven days. Not too shabby.. No sales yet and it is still in the 11th spot on page 1...but I'm a "glass is half full" kind of gal..so I will stay positive and (do my best) to remain patient - though it is not easy.

Onto other news....While Site #3 has been indexed -- it is all the way down on page 21 of Google. I have a feeling this one might be a much harder climb to the top. I may have misjudged the keyword potency. While there are only 67 competitors using that "exact" term - which is a really low number - it ends up that there are a couple of thousand sites that have that term within their website. I am going to give it a day or two and see if it starts moving up on its own. If not, I will go back in and tweak it with some other keywords to see if I could nudge it up the Google Ladder.

Ehow Earnings Update

Not so good on the Ehow front. Earnings still running low and as of now I might even make less than I did last month which is surprising to me. They haven't gotten back to me yet on the "plagiarism" issue either which is getting a little annoying. It's bad enough to even say that word to a writer - let alone leave them hanging without an explanation. But patience is a virtue...sigh...

Discovered Something New

Found a new interesting idea today....It is a Wordpress Amazon Store Plug In to build your own Amazon store around keyword phrases.

This is basically how it works. Say you find out that Little Tikes Kitchen is going to be the hot item this Christmas you can use this wordpress plugin and build a quick store that features every Little Tikes Kitchen that Amazon offers in just a few simple steps. Here is an example of what it will look like

Combined with the Micro Niche Finder to determine which keywords have low competition (or even using the free Google keyword search) you simply purchase the domain with those keywords in it - run your wordpress plug in and set up your own quick site. Could make for some extra income, especially around the Holiday season.

I may give it a shot in a couple of weeks, but right now I want to stay focused on my Google Sniper goal of getting at least 10 sites done. I've made the mistake before of bouncing all over with different ideas I've come across, so this time I am determined to remain focused.

If you want to check it out for yourself simply go to Wordpress and type in "Amazon Niche Store"

Moving Forward

Got a little behind in creating Sniper Site #4 and there is a good chance I will only be able to work on it a little while today (you know....that "real life" thing is getting in the way again) but I am determined to have it at least pre-launched by tomorrow afternoon. Until then....Happy Earnings!