Google Sniper

Google Sniper is one of the best selling courses about earning money through Google Adsense. It has been created by a fella called George Brown and if you haven’t come across George’s product before you will some day soon if you intend to be in Internet Marketing for any length of time. It’s quite a famous course within the Internet Marketing community.

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There’s actually been 2 versions of Google Sniper. The first version came out at the end of 2008 or the beginning of 2009 I can’t remember the exact date. It was an immediate hit with the Internet marketing world because targetted the perfect market and the sales copy blew people away. Not only that but George was very young. Maybe 19 or 20 years old and the rumours were rife that he was already and Internet millionaire and a lot of people took to this fresh faced lad who brought a new simple way to make easy money online.

Google Sniper Success

Google Sniper was all about building small niche sites based around a keyword or phrase. You needed an exact match domain name available for your chosen keyword, create a couple of keyword rich pages, a few backlinks and you’d soon be dominating Google and raking in money through Adsense. But what caused this to become a top selling product was the fact that it worked for many people, newbies and experienced marketers were making money hand over fist.

It really was that simple. The hardest part was researching keywords but it wasn’t long before the likes of Micro Niche Finder and Market Samurai came onto the market to help us snipers! These keyword tools were the icing on the cake for Google Sniper followers. Now with these tools all we needed was to enter a main keyword (seed keyword) and they would churn out hundreds of long tail phrases suitable for our sniper sites.

It wasn’t long before the Internet marketing forums were full of positive reviews from people making money with Google sniper sites. The success of George’s product brought about new courses that added twists on the Google Sniper method. The Google Adsense Master Class was written by someone called Xfactor and his ebook became a best seller too. There was nothing original with Xfactor’s book apart from some template he claimed rocketed his click through rates on his ads and drove tons of money his way. The $100k Adsense Blueprint is another Google Sniper clone too that promotes building mini sites with Adsense displayed on them.

I bought a copy too and in the early days I made money, good money in fact. The search results were being dominated by these micro niche sites with their crappy content and it wouldn’t be long before Google cottoned on to the fact that yet again Internet marketeers were manipulating their search pages yet again

Google Sniper Dies

All good things come to an end. Google soon made changes to their algorithm which penalized Google Sniper sites and they have given less weight to exact match domains. Domains with long tail keywords were destroyed over night. People who had come to rely on earning $1000′s a month saw it wiped out very quickly. Worse was to come. Google started closing Adsense accounts for owners of these micro sites if they caught them. Google hates low quality made for Adsense sites. (MFA). Even today if you create a MFA site purely to get people to click on Adsense adverts you risk losing your Adsense accounts. And btw Google wait until the end of the month to ban you, just when you are expecting your next payment you get a nasty letter saying – Your account has been suspended and all monies held due to breach of our TOS!