The Google Sniper system is one of the most successful and most frequently sold make money online products ever launched. It has found countless eager buyers and it seems everybody and their dog are out creating websites according to the The Gsniper system program. The method taught has one very sizeable flaw, however. In this quick post, I want to explain this flaw to you and explain how you can fix it.

The Premise

First, we should to take a quick look at the premise of Google sniper, which is what makes it so attractive to many: Put as simply as possible, the program claims to teach anyone how to generate “mini-sites” in a very short time and how to turn each of those mini-sites into a small, passive revenue stream. And here’s the bombshell: this product claims that you can get site visitors to these websites for free and without having to build any backlinks, do any article-marketing or social bookmarking or any of that other stuff that usually makes up the bulk of an online marketer’s work.

This is the idea that makes Google Sniper rise above the crowd: The idea that you can get your website ranked on the first page of Google without building any backlinks to it!

Can this really be possible, or is it just an empty promise?

The short answer is: Yes, that is really possible.

The Problem

So, where’s the problem? The big problem in Google Sniper is how it teaches you to choose a product and one of the guidelines it gives you on picking a search phrase to target.

First, the product selection: Google Sniper simply teaches you to go to ClickBank (a huge marketplace of downloadable products) and select one of the products from the “best-sellers” list. I.e. a product that is being sold in large numbers already. This makes some sense, since if a product is doing well, you know that it’s sales-page is converting visitors into buyers and that it’s a product addressing a real demand.

On the other hand, the most popular products are also the ones that are being promoted by the greatest number of affiliates. With the most popular products, you will be up against an army of other online marketers trying to sell it.

Alongside the suggestions about how to do keyword research given in GSniper, this will only mean bad things for your promotion campaigns: The advice given in the ebook is to simply go for the product name, either on it’s own or with another words (like “review”) appended.

Let me make this very clear: If you pick a popular (high gravity) ClickBank product and try to rank for the product name with a Sniper Site, you will be disappointed. There’s bound to be several marketers doing lots of link-building and using advanced tools to try and get their pages ranked for those keywords already and a minisite without backlinks will be absolutely  competition to them.

Bottom line

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not suggesting the GSniper method doesn’t work. The system works and it’s a very interesting method definitely worth taking a look at. But for it to work, you need to find a keyword that gets a good amount of traffic, but is still not too competitive for a sniper site. And in order to find keywords like that, you’ll have to spend some time doing keyword research.

All in all, Google Sniper is quite a good package and I can recommend it. Just make sure to ignore the advice about picking products and keywords and the rest of the system outlined will serve you very well.

Check out my complete Google Sniper Review.

And check out these videos explaining how you can easily improve the GSniper system.