It may help to promote only high-converting, recently-released CB products, or services that bill monthly, but even then, many of the older & most profitable niches have simply become way too competitive. You’re much better off finding some new, unsaturated, or “trending” niche or product, and targeting impatient customers with money to burn.

Alas, using broad matched keywords as domain names is also by nature an extremely un-targeted approach to marketing. And even with decent search volume, it’s just a “passive” domain name strategy… you can’t even narrow down the field with “negative” keywords! Consequently, you may get clicks but you probably won’t make very many sales.

Adwords newbies often fail by using broad match keywords to get lots of clicks, which is great for Google, but not for sales. Even though you’re not paying for traffic, don’t make the same basic mistake. Try using only higher volume long-tail keywords as your domain names. (If you can find any, that is!)

Think that Adsense will make you more than selling products? Well, consider that even once you’ve landed a visitor to your sniper site, they probably won’t click on the very same “sponsored” ads that they’ve just seen and/or ignored at the top of the search results page anyways, nor if they think that they’re more likely to find what they’re actually looking for by just returning, and/or refining their search terms.

IMHO, the “sniper” method may produce a bit of residual income IF you put up enough exact match domain sites AND get good position in the SERPs, but if you want to make any real money quickly, and with any degree of certainty, you’ll just have to advertise properly, and in the right media.

I think the problem with the Clickbank snipers can be both the poduct (The landing-page of the product has alot to say wether the customer buys or not) and the keyword. In my case, maybe the keyword is not optimized good enough. I seem to have around the same CTR on my Sniper sites onto the affiliate links as George, but the traffic is much less though.

It is hard to say, for example I changed out the product for one of my niches, where it never even got as much as an order form impression – while the new product gets almost 10% order form impressions.

So it depends on many factors: The keyword (targeted traffic are better than just alot of traffic), the product and the mood of the customer.

Hope you get good luck, if you decide to start on some Google Sniping too.

Regards Mike.

Actually I’m not doing that good; the traffic on the keywords are far from as high at it should be. For my first keywords, I just took 3000+ searches montly on broad – not exact. So while they might rank pretty well, they are not getting that much traffic.

I hope to get more time to work on AdSense / Xfactor-style snipers soon, so far its pretty much just Clickbank based Google Snipers.

That sucks about the google sniper sites. I have found that google snipping can work quite well with actual products and you can even try CPA offers.

Best of luck to you!
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