I thought it would be best if I gave a monthly update on what is happening with my sniper sites. I’ve been dicking around with them for a while and I should get a good idea of what I think of them so far. I have to update my total invested number since I added in a 3rd wave of sites and I recently purchased a 4th wave. I won’t include the 4th wave because most of the sites aren’t even online yet. I’ll go into more detail about the 4th wave later in this post.
Total Invested: $408.20 (6 more domains)
And I guess you want a monthly breakdown of how much I’m earning with these sites. I usually just gave you a runnning total of how much I’ve earned, but I’m going to give you a month and total this time.
Amazon: $350.41 (Total: $1093.09) On 35 sites
When it comes to Amazon, I don’t feel like I’m earning what I should with it for the amount of time invested. But the thing about Amazon is that the income keeps growing each month and I think it is much more stable. If you look at a program like Clickbank, you could get 30 sales a month at $33/sale to make a grand a month. But there are variations and getting 20 sales in a month is a big change in what you make. Where as Amazon you need a high volume of sales to actually earn something that is going to pay the bills.
For this reason I think that Amazon is good. I think it is quite stable from an income point of view and that is something that I can really appreciate. Anyone that has been doing this long enough knows that fluctuations are just part of the game, but having a nice stable source is really a solid base to work with.
This was the very first month that I actually hit the 7.0% commission tier. The way Amazon works is that they show you how many sales you have got and how many sales have been shipped. They pay you on shipped items and that is what counts toward moving up the tiers. I had enough commissions last month for it, but they didn’t get all shipped and I missed out on it. lol.
My goal in April is to get my Amazon earnings to $500/mth. I just need to keep pushing traffic through the affiliate links and keep hoping for good things. I won’t pass through to the 7.5% tier next month to reach that goal. I eventually want to get this up to a $1000/mth and the sooner the better. Essentially that is all I try to do with programs now. I work at them until I get them to around $1000/mth and move on to another program to do the same. It’s my way of diversifying.
Adsense: $106.77 (Total: $416.57) On 8 sites*
I put an asterisk by the sites because I recently converted two Amazon sites to Adsense at the end of the month. They weren’t converting and some ass emailed me asking to buy one of them. I decided I better put it on Adsense to see what it is capable of earning. My Adsense earnings aren’t anything special. I really don’t have any interest in Adsense. Making more than a hundred in a month means I’ll get money wired to my bank account, but that’s about it.
I’m just a little scared to use sniper sites for Adsense because my sites are pretty thin and Google might think they’re MFA (well they are, I don’t make sites for shits and giggles). I *HEARD* that Adsense doesn’t really do an audit of your sites until you’re making about $100/day ($3000/mth). So making a $1000/mth fits in a nice safe range when audits are concerned. Still, I’m pretty reluctant with the program. I might continue to just dick around with it and slowly build it up on the side.
Total Month: $457.18 (Overall Total: $1509.66) On 43 Sites*
I do have more than 43 sites invested into this little sniper project, but some of them are not monetized yet. Since they’re not monetized I didn’t feel like adding them into the earning statistics. I did add them into how much I invested though.
I guess while I’m still updating people on things, I should update you on things unrelated to the sniper site project. I mentioned in a post not to long ago that I’m working on Christmas Authority Sites. This was actually quite interesting because I’ve been making a little bit of money with them already. You can look at the post I gave on Christmas Authority Sites to understand the method to my madness, but it has been an interesting run so far.
I’ve found that you’ll rank for lots of shit and most of them are duds. Most will not even bring you a drip of traffic, but you’ll hit something that does get traffic. It doesn’t take anymore work then the posts that fail, so it’s nice. The best part is that when you hit the traffic, it’s something that is going to convert. Even though I’m not getting a high volume of traffic it seems to be doing decent for new sites.
A few days ago I picked up a few domains to get this a try with Clickbank as the affiliate program. I actually just wanted to get one site, but I have a rule about domains name. If I find a keyword domain I want and .net and .org (and even .com) are available, I have to buy them all. This happens because I’ve bought a .net or .org, seen it perform well and went to go back to get the their extension and it being gone. Pain in the ass! But that is an aside.
I wanted to play with Clickbank in a very minor way. As you should all know, I think Clickbank Sucks because I made a nice little blog about it. I still think they’re pretty much incompetent, but I miss the tiny trickle of sales I was getting. Since I stopped actively promoting CB I was still making sales. I’d get anywhere from 1-3 sales a week on average and with weekly payments to my bank account it was nice to see $50-100 popping into my bank account every week. It’s not a lot of money, but something that pays for groceries.
Anyway, I wanted to get my sales back to something like that and this type of site will be like that. When I used to play with CB and was making decent money with it, I was an bum marketer (which is shit). I’m going to do it with the least amount of work to see what I can earn from it. I’ll keep you posted on how that works out too. Just a note, I’ll have two of these sites on two different webhosts, which makes my sites a lot more strategic when it comes to ranking.
Let’s see, what else to update you guys on. I bought 4 sites on Sunday to help with my CPAs. I haven’t really talked about CPAs on this blog. Might be something to talk about in the future, but not now. I can’t remember if I mentioned on this site that I bought a .info domain. After hearing loads of talk on this and how they’re punished, I thought I’d give it a try. I actually found a 1 word (5 letter) .info domain available for some piece of clothing. From my experience so far it is working like a normal domain. I don’t appear to be punished or anything like that. Granted, I haven’t played with enough .info domains to really know, but so far they’re just like any other domain.
The only real concern I have right now is that I’m juggling 50+ active domains right now and I find it a bit overwhelming at times. Like, I have a lot of domains and most of them are sitting idle and earning. Meaning I built them up and they just sit to earn. They don’t need the active attention, just a little love now and then. But with 50+ active sites that need love now and need content now is overwhelming. I’m definitely going to sit down and write a post on this blog for organizing this many active sites.
I guess that’s all for now. Just an FYI to those that read to this point. Some assclown left a comment on the blog about how one of my posts was a million words long and asked me to summarize it. Fuck off. The posts are long for a reason. If I had ads, you would of clicked on them already (which is the point).
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Comments (3)
Get ready for Chrimbo. I am glad I had my big earners the end of last year. I now know to keep in mind that just because sales are low for the rest of the year you can really clean up at Christmas on Amazon.
Sounds like earnings are good. It can only go up. I have found the same as you with.infos, no difference in rankings. Although I never personally make thin sites so I don’t know if that is relevant or not. In fact we make some of our best money from .99 cent domains. If you can’t get any other extension then they are a great buy.
Thanks for the comment Dave. I’m definitely pumped from Chrimbo. This will be the first time that I worked by my ass ahead of time to make sure I’m in the position to take advantage of it.
I have another site that is oriented toward Thanksgiving and it’s insane the amount of traffic the holidays get.
As per the earnings with my sniper sites, I’m a little underwhelmed with them because this is month 7 with them and they’re not meeting what I would call potential. Not that I’m not grateful for how they’re performing, but I expect them to continue to improve.
I’m also going to take the advice you made on the forum about doubling your income with just plugging away at your sites that are working.
Thanks for stopping by.
Chris -
The site I mentioned on Dave’s blog that was converting at a high rate (but not that many sales) is a .info, not had any trouble with them myself, but guess it largely depends on content.
Billy.