With SEOSupporter you can easily follow your Google rankings, set up custom reports when you fall or rise in the SERP’s and follow your progress from backlinking to PR changes. I find this the easiest way to keep track of my SEO progress with my websites; and it is very handy when you have a bunch of Sniper sites.

Easy Project Overview

My favorite thing about SEOSupporter (besides that it is a free tool) is the userfriendly interface. It is very easy to get used to, it looks really nice and it gives you a really nice overview over all of your sites. At the dashboard you get a quick overview over all of your sites latest progress; PageRank, Backlinks, Pages Indexed and Alexa ranking. The only thing that is a bit annoying, is the fact that Pages Indexed is not really working. All of my sites are indexed (and ranking) in Google, but SEOSupporter shows 0 indexed pages for most of them. A site search on Google will also show they are indexed, so I’m not completely sure how this function works.

Keyword Ranking and Backlink Progress

The two main features for following your site, is definitely the Keyword Tracking and Backlink overview. If you are doing linkbuilding on of your sites, you can easily follow your progress day by day, and even see how your site has progressed in the past half year.

With the Keyword Monitoring you can also track your competitors ranking on your keywords, a good thing if you are in a competetive niche, and you just want to get that number 1 ranking. Keep track of what your competitors are doing, how many backlinks they have – you might even be able to spot an aggressive linkbuilding attempt of one of your competitors, and (if you act in time) keep your position.

Completely Free SEO Tool

SEOSupporter is currently completely free. It is still in BETA, but the system works (really well), and there is no doubt that if you have a website, and are doing some SEO, you should use this tool. According to the person behind, there will be a paid version of the services at some point, but I am sure that there will always be a free version of the system. So what are you waiting for? Jump over to SEOSupporter and sign up for your own account now!

This post is about how everything changed for me in 2009, and changed my life 180 degrees once again. Starting 2009 I just wanted to travel for half a year, and then go back to the army – never in my wildest dreams did I plan to stay in South America, let alone Peru.

From Soldier to Backpacker to Business Entrepreneur
My original plan was going back to the army, after finishing my 4 months of duty in DANILOG (Danish International Logistical Center). First I had planned to travel through South- and Central America for 6-9 months, before returning to Denmark and hoping to get a contract and go on a mission to Afghanistan with the Danish Army.

Not even 3 months into my big journey in South America, I reach Lima and stay for about a week in Miraflores, Peru. I end up meeting a lot of amazing and awesome people, revive an old business idea I got the first time I was in South America, and within 2 weeks in Lima I decided that I would give it a shot – Living in Lima for a year.

Getting Used to Combies and Contrasts
I must admit that I love Lima by all my heart. It feels like the right place for me right now, and I love the contrasts of old and new, rich and poor, expensive and cheap, that you see everywhere in Lima. I might live in one of the expensive and rich areas of the town at the moment, but the fact for me is, this is what the future of Peru should look like. I don’t believe in solving 3rd world problems by donating money so the poor can get some food; I believe the only way to help the 3rd world is creating a future for them. Something that doesn’t solve the problem right now, but over a period of time and I only see this possible in creating a stable economic, creating jobs and run the old mill of capitalism.

Lima has its flaws but with more than 8 million people (in 2007 that is) this city is more populated than Denmark with our 5,5 million people. When I was back home in August, even our biggest city Copenhagen felt like a small place. Living in a city bigger than my country honestly leaves some marks.

Running a Small Business – Keep Your Focus!
The most important lesson I have learned in 2009, is to keep focus on what you are dealing with right now. I have been moving away from my startup several times, ending up in a huge delay. My Google Sniper Sites project ended up taking way too much time and making me lose focus, even though I learned a lot from the project. Right now I am focusing 100% of my time on my current business goals, getting evisitcard translated to Spanish, finish the system and hopefully start entering the Peruvian market.

So my best advice from 2009 can only be to keep focus. I have delayed my adventure for way too long, because I didn’t keep focus on what I was actually here to do, and instead was acting like a dreamer, spreading my timer over too many different projects. If you want success with your Small Business, remember to keep your focus.

Blog Statistics from 2009
As the blog started out as a travelers blog, telling a bit about my experiences (and playing around with SEO, posting about places I visited) I never expected much for the blog. I still managed to get around 200 monthly unique visitors, with December 2009 peaking with over 500 unique visitors. In total more than 3000 unique visitors stopped by my blog, with a bounce rate on just around 60%. It hasn’t been the most active blog, with only 31 posts and 65 comments during the year, but I am quite satisfied so far as I have changed the direction of the blog. The visitors started picking up after I wrote about my Affiliate Marketing adventure with Google Sniper in October, so in the coming time I will focus more on useful posts for Small Business owners, Internet Marketers and in general tips for people working with Online Marketing like myself.

If you have any special request about what you would like to read more about, please feel free to post some comments on the blog. I hope 2010 will be a more active year, and wish you all the best of luck in 2010.

My 3 Reasons For Going to Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas

I am sure that everyone, beginner or experienced with Affiliate marketing (or maybe just starting, like me), can come up with a few reasons to go to the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas, going off January 17-19. Personally I got 3 reasons ready right here, and who said you can’t mix business with pleasure? If I end up going to Affiliate Summit, this will be exactly the plan.

• Reason 1: Visiting my better half
  Today my better half is leaving for Las Vegas (or near, a place called Bear Mountain Ski Resort) for almost 3 months, and we now face the dreadful long-distance relationship problems. I’m sure most people can agree that this sucks, so getting a chance to visit her and relax with some Snowboarding would be no less than awesome!
• Reason 2: Working more and more with Affiliate Marketing
  If you have followed my blog the last couple of months, you probably know that I started my Google Sniper Project back in the end of October, and even though I’d like to focus on some AdSense sniping too now, most of my sites are affiliate sites and I am getting some really nice experiences. This is a field I’d like to work a lot more with, and integrate as part of my business here in Peru.
• Reason 3: Internet Marketing is my business, and there is lots to learn from Affiliate Marketers
  I am living here in Peru to start my business, and it is going quite well. I believe in my project, my product and that the market is ready, but there is still many major challenges to overcome. Even though I am selling my own product, I still believe I can get learn a lot from Affiliate Marketers, as in basic, its just about Internet Marketing.

The Big Answer: Yes – I’m a Player!

The answer to the big question; hell yea, I’m a player. I would put it all down on 1 hand of BlackJack, hopefully following my recently luck in the Casinos here in Lima, where they usually end up paying me to get drunk. I never win a lot in Casinos, but I usually walk away with a little more or the same money I came with – and pretty drunk (free whisky while playing BlackJack – why not?).

What would you do? Are you a player or a saver? Feel free to post it in the comments.

What does Web History Means for My Rankings?

Before you had to be logged in on Google, to have your Web History affecting the search results, but now it is activated as a default. This means that if you search often on “Spanish Translation”, and always click on the same tool, this will effect the ranking of that website, and maybe next time you search on “Spanish Translation”, the website you always clicks on, will be moving up in the results.
So lets say you are optimizing your website for “Fast Spanish Translation”, and your site is number #2 on Google. You often make the search on Google to check that your website still is number #2, but you also click on your competitors to see if they made any changes their website, or what news they have. You never click on your own website, because you know what is on it. If you have Web History enable, this will now affect your competitors ranking, so your own site might move down in the search results, while your competitors will move up.
Because Google now puts this option ON as standard, this means that most people will not turn it off, and you have even less change of seeing how you actually are ranking in the SERP’s, when your customers are searching for your website or products.

Why Disable Web History?

There are a few reason to disable Web History, and if you own a website and want to check your rankings on Google, you should definitely turn it off right away. You can follow my step-by-step guide to disable it below.
If you work with SEO, got your own website or even managing your own website, it should be clear why you should turn it off; it WILL affect your rankings, so you should also make sure your SEO customers disable this, when checking their rankings in Google. If not, you will most likely end up getting a lot of calls from your customers, asking why they suddenly are moving down in the search results.

Even if you are not working with SEO or run a website, disabling the Web History will make your search results cleaner and you will see more “fresh” results, allowing sites you havent seen before to be in top of the search results too. Follow my step-by-step guide below to Disable Google Web History.

How To Disable Google Web History

To disable the Web History (so it won’t affect the SERP pages you see in Google), start by go making a search on Google, as you on the screenshot below. Make sure you are not logged into any Google application like Gmail, and you will now see a link to “Web History” in the top right corner. Simply click on the link.

You will now see a screen where you can disable the Web History. Simple click on “Disable customizations based on search activity” to disable your Web History.

If you see a screen like on the screenshot below, you have now disable your Web History, and your search results will no longer be affected by what you have clicked on in the past. Now you should only see “clean” SERP’s from Google.

I see this as a bad move from Google, but it is mainly in the light of working with SEO. It will now be harder to check your rankings, make your customer see their true rankings, and it is harder to predict if your will be on top of the search results for the visitors, as the SERP’s now will look much more different depending on which computer you search from. This will also be a big problem on public computers.

What do you think about the Google Personalized Web Results? Is it good or bad that Google now is “forcing” everybody to use it, and activates it as default? Most people searching on Google will probably never now about the Web History, and therefore never disable it. Feel free to throw a comment below the post.

I did see an improvement in hops both for Clickbank and Amazon, and I made a small Amazon sale. Somebody who clicked on my link decided to buy some CD, but this isn’t really anything to talk about as I only earned $0,56 on that.

As you can see, I have diveded the sites into CB Snipers and AdSense sites. Generally I am dissappointed about the whole Clickbank sniper concept, but I havent given completely up on these sites. When time comes, I’d like to work som my on backlinking for them, and maybe add some UAW articles to generate backlinks over time. Site #14 just wont rank for the keyword, but I havent really done any linkbuilding – not even a Ezine yet, but it is indexed, so maybe it was just bad keyword research. Site #13 is more of a long term project, and I’d like to add some 20-25 articles to it in december and do some link building, more as a test to see if I can actually get it to a good position on Page 1 in the SERP. It is more of a SEO test project.

But if I don’t get more time to work on my sniper sites, I might just keep the posts about them to 1 per month. Instead I’ll clean up my blog (starting with a new WP Theme as you can see now), sort out the categories and blog more about Small Business Websites, stuff I do in my own business at the moment and ofcourse there might be some posts about living in Miraflores, Peru.

Project Google Sniper – Week #6

Sniper sites created: 14

Google rankings on main keyword
CB Sniper #1: None
CB Sniper #2: 6 (-4)
CB Sniper #3: 8 (-1)
CB Sniper #4: 26 (-10)
CB Sniper #5: 48 (-10)
CB Sniper #6: 8 (+2)
CB Sniper #7: 8 (-2)
CB Sniper #8: 6 (-3)
CB Sniper #9: 4 (-1)
CB Sniper #10: 5 (+0)
CB Sniper #11: 7 (-4)
CB Sniper #12: 4 (+0)
AdSense #13: 11 (+2)
AdSense #14: NONE

Clickbank hops: 160 (+28) (New analytics) / 187 (+45) (Own stats)
Amazon clicks: 90 Clicks (+23)
Amazon Earnings: $0.56

Now Making Adsense Sniper Sites

I tried doing some research and rethinking of my project this weekend, as I took a travel to La Paz and got a lot of time to relax, do some work and think about my strategy. With the low CTR on clickbank, I figured out that it is better to go for CPC (Google Adsense) instead of Affiliate Marketing with CPA. Currently I am testing a few of the sniper sites with putting Adsense on it, and setting them to be viewed around 400 times. This will give me an idea of the CTR in those niches, and see if its more profitable to turn them into Adsense Snipers. Besides that I made some new Keyword Research, and registred 9 new domains for Adsense Sniper sites. One of these sites will be an authority site, as I like the subject and would like to add some more articles on the site. I’ll try to create 5 articles per week for the site, and see how it will go.

Inspired by Mike Iser, who is truly a site-building machine with over 70 Adsense Sniper sites, I will try to create 1 new Adsense Sniper every day in this week, and see how that goes. Next week I’ll have to decide if I want to spend some time creating backlinks with Unique Article Wizard (UAW) and EzineArticles, and maybe try some other techniques, or if I want to keep on pumping out Adsense Sniper Sites. I also decided to write atleast 1 EzineArticle for each site, with a link to the main site and one of the posts. I hope this will give me a good positive effect on the rankings for the sites.

Project Google Sniper – Week #5

Sniper sites created: 14

Google rankings on main keyword
Site #1: None
Site #2: 2 (Back in rankings after 3-4 days in Sandbox)
Site #3: 7 (+0)
Site #4: 16 (+21)
Site #5: 40 (Doing some Google Dancing)
Site #6: 10 (-1)
Site #7: 6 (-3)
Site #8: 3 (+0)
Site #9: 4 (+1)
Site #10: 5 (+2)
Site #11: 3 (+0)
Site #12: 4 (+1)
Site #13: 13 (NEW)
site #14: NONE (NEW)

Clickbank hops: 132 (+62) (New analytics) / 142 (+58) (Own stats)
Amazon clicks: 67 Clicks (-12)
Amazon Earnings: $0

Note that I have not read “Xfactors guide” to these Adsense sniper sites, and my experience and description is solely based on my current experience with Google Sniper, and what I have read about these types of sites on other blogs. I mostly got inspired by Mike Iser, who is reporting daily about is road to a full time passive Internet income, and also Sara from Noteworthy Tips. Sara also blogs about her journey to a $5k a month income from Internet marketing, so those two blogs are definately worth checking out, if you a looking for more information about making money online.

So what is these “Adsense Sniper” sites?

In essence they are basically sites “Made for Adsense” (MFA), but this is a bit “hush-hush”, as it is against the rules of Google Adsense. You start by doing some keyword research, and find some good keywords with a lot of searches on, where the competition (other sites ranking in Google) is low and the Adwords CPC is as high as possible. Then you buy a domain name with the exact keyword in and create your Adsense sniper site by writing a few texts about the subject, ofcouse optimised for Google by using LSI keywords (I might write more about that subject later). Do a bit of link building (Like submitting UAW articles or EzineArticles) and get your site to rank in the first 10 results on Google for that keyword. Ofcouse the best would be to rank #1, and get as many visits from Google as possible.

The goal for your sites is then to get this traffic from Google converted into clicks on your Adsense boxes. Lets say you find a keyword called “Dog training tips”, get the domain “dogtrainingtips.com” and get a lot of traffic from your main keyword on Google. Your goal will not just be to give some good information about “Dog training tips”, but to get the visitors to click on the Adsense links, and in the end earning you money.

Now these sites may take 3-5 hours to create and get ranking, but if you get them to be stable in the search results, you will keep getting traffic (and money) from these sites, without having to work on them again. Using this method you can end up having a nice big passive income, earning money for years without doing more than 3-5 hours of work for each site. That is the basic idea behind the Adsense Sniper Sites.

I hope you could use this description of Adsense Snipers, make sure to follow my blog for more updates on this subject in the future. I am already working on creating my first batch of these new sniper sites, and I will ofcourse keep blogging about my experiences and how it will go.

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)

My first sale
I made my first sale this week, though it is kind of disappointing so far. I would have expected have made at least a few sales on Clickbank so far, but nothing there yet, even though I’m starting to get a decent number of hops. Instead I got my first sale from Amazon, even though I only have 1 small sniper sites that targets Amazon. The referral is pretty low, so it only earned my $3.20 USD, but given the amount of clicks on my Amazon referral links from the site were only 37, that gives me a conversion rate of 2.70% – not bad from linking to Amazon products. So this little sniper site will receive a bit more of attention and link building this week, to make it rank better and hopefully it can generate a few sales per week. With 59 unique visitors, about 62% clicked on the referral links. 62% is a pretty awesome conversion rate for a sniper site, so if I can just get more traffic to the site, hopefully it will make more sales on Amazon.

Want Linkjuice? Go EzineArticles
The most important thing I learned last week was the power of EzineArticles. I honestly didn’t think it would be that important to submit articles to this directory, and I thought UAW would pretty much do the job. But boy, does Google LOVE EzineArticles – Site #6 jumped extremely high in rankings very fast, after I posted an article on EzineArticles. And even though Site #1 still doesn’t rank on the main keyword (might have select a pretty bad keyword, but hey – was my first sniper site ), the site is starting to get a lot more traffic on other long tail keywords, and is actually 3-10 hops per day. This also started after I made the submission to EzineArticles – so this directory really makes a difference when making sniper sites.
Because of this, I will make at least 1 article and post it on EzineArticles for each sniper site this week. Hopefully they will all get approved latest next week, and I will quickly start seeing some results in the rankings.

That was it from this week, if you have any suggestions or questions to my project, please leave a comment or make sure you contact me. Either way, have a great day.

Project Google Sniper – Week #3

Sniper sites created: 10/12
Sites indexed: 8/10
Backlinks to all sites: 302 (+55)

Google rankings on main keyword
Site #1: None
Site #2: 5 (-2)
Site #3: 7 (+2)
Site #4: 39 (-7)
Site #5: None
Site #6: 6 (+44)
Site #7: 14
Site #8: 7

Clickbank hops: 88 (New analytics) / 122 (Old analytics) / 157 (Own stats)
Amazon clicks: 37 Clicks
Amazon Earnings: $3.20

I also started submitting articles to UAW (Unique Article Wizard) to test how much effect this have to the sites ranking. So far I haven’t been able to see results from this, though I expect it to give good results on a long term strategy. It seems like a nice way to get long-term backlinks, but it doesn’t give you a lot of fast backlinks. So far, none of my articles have shown up in the backlinks search. The backlinks count is pretty high because I posted some comments on DoFollow blogs and blogs with Top Commenters, which gives a lot of backlinks.

I have only built 6 sites so far, but only a few of them is starting to get decent traffic. Site #2 is doing really well, and getting a lot of traffic on long tail keywords, as well as a bit traffic on the main keyword. Site #3 is pretty interesting because I’m not promoting a Clickbank product, but choose to play a bit with Amazon referral. The site is starting to receive a bit of traffic from Google on long-tail searches, and has a pretty amazing CTR (Click-Through Rate) with 11 clicks from just 25 unique visitors. No sales yet though, but I am hoping Amazon keep their tracking cookies for a while, so there might be a chance of getting revenue next time the visitor buys something from Amazon. The referral rate is pretty low though, at just 4% – but the more items you sell from Amazon, the higher it will get (up to 8%). I will probably try to add a few more sniper sites to Amazon products and see how it goes, but I’m not sure if this is worth it. Probably depends on the niche that you focus on, and what the costumers buy.

I have also added the number of hops I got last week. There is quite a big difference on the new and the old Clickbank analytics, so I’m not sure which one is most correct. To confirm these results however, I coded my own little tracking-system, so every time someone clicks on my Clickbank affiliate links, it saves it in my database. I started tracking day-by-day clicks today, and will try to compare these results with the ones from Clickbank analytics, to see if there is a difference. Also the hop statistic from last week is a bit affected by testing some of the links, but should be no more than 10-12 hops.

Project Google Sniper – Week #2

Sniper sites created: 6
Sites indexed: 6/6
Backlinks to all sites: 247

Google rankings on main keyword
Site #1: None
Site #2: 3 (+3)
Site #3: 9
Site #4: 33 (+7)
Site #5: None
Site #6: 50

Clickbank hops: 68 (New analytics) / 101 (Old analytics)
Amazon clicks: 11 Clicks