Thanks for reading, guys.

As things change, one adapts. This is just another effort to do so.

I like the article, but its hinting a bit. My site was first on its name but I found keyword snipping to help boost my numbers, nothing wrong with that.

You haven’t mentioned anything in your article about evaluating keyword prices. The key component of keyword sniping is finding a word or phrase that is almost as much as a top tier keyword or phrase and “snipe” that keyword.

Additionally, Court mentions in additional articles this method can be expanded after the FIRST keyword sniping site by “double sniping”, which in turn can double, triple, or quadruple your efforts because now you have a toehold in the search engines with a related phrase which makes it much easier to target the top tier keyword phrases (as well as a number of related phrases).

On top of that, Court’s articles OTHER than the sniping articles discuss time and again the importance of designing a page for maximum conversion impact, as well as writing relevant helpful articles that encourage conversion.

And finally, with this method suppose you have the following:

10 sniping sites multiplied by $10/day in clickthrus.

That’s $100/day in 90 days. That’s 365 days per year. That’s $36k/yr. That’s a great base salary for someone looking for a vehicle out of corporate life and open doors for other opportunities (i.e. building a high traffic niche blog).

Other pluses with this is that if one of your niches dies – or even 2 or 3 of your niche sites die, all your eggs are not in one basket. If you are serious about keyword research you should already have a couple other niche domains bought that you can immediately start writing content for and begin the process again. Except this time you have other sites in your collection to leverage, which means it is possible to get your new sites into Google faster.

A good strategy with this is to find a great niche to blog about, even BEFORE you start your sniping sites. Buy the domain, put up an article, let the site age in Google and spend 3-4 months building sniping sites.

Some sniping sites end up taking on entire lives of their own. One product sniping site I have began getting 12-15 high $ clicks per day. I began optimizing further with other keywords. I put a BANS site in a /store/ subdirectory on the site and began deep linking to the BANS site from my existing articles where specific products were mentioned. All of a sudden I had an even richer revenue source.

Court has never said you would get rich with keyword sniping, but that it is a great way to “supplement” your blogging income.

One last final thought. Court is currently running a 50 video series on starting a blog. He has emphasized this is markedly different than keyword sniping, requires much more effort, but will yield much larger rewards, not dissimilar from the blog numbers you posted in the example in your article.

I appreciate what you are saying in your article, but there seemed to be a subtle insinuation that the sniping concept is some sort of get rich scam. And I don’t see it.

DM