It’s now 4 months since I started using the keyword sniping technique outlined by Court ( he has since withdrawn his keyword sniping posts read this for an explanation As it turns out content is king)
I want to tell you that for me it has been very, very successful. 4 of my sites are on page 1 of Google for 2 keywords (many at positions 2-3 - I haven’t achieved a 1 yet!) My visitors has jumped up this month so those sites are getting around 150 visitors a day each. These are niche sites so I am not expecting 100’s of visitors! My earnings this month have jumped from $600 in September to $750 last month to nearly $2000 so far in November, the majority of it coming from the keyword sniping sites.
For most of the sites I haven’t added any more to the original 10 posts and 2 articles that I distributed. One site made in August is still not receiving many visitors and the keywords are still way down in SERP’s. It may need more time or I may go back to it and write some more content and articles. I have had no time this week to do anything but move sites!
I am continuing to build sites using the keyword sniping technique making sure I add lots of original content and distributing original articles. It takes time for the sites to climb in SERP’s, it won’t happen overnight but I can assure you it will happen so have patience.
I have BANS and WordPress sites on Bluehost. In the past I have had an occasional suspension due to CPU over load. I found that using a WordPress database plugin can cause this so I deactivated this plugin on all my WP sites. Since then I hadn’t had the suspension happen until last Sunday. Every few minutes I was getting my websites suspended for CPU overload. I haven’t activated any new plugins or done anything different.
On Monday my account was deactivated. No warning, no offer to help me find the problem, Just an email that my data will be deleted in 15 days and my data may be available until then.
I sent 4 emails over the day and put in a ticket and absolutely no response. I didn’t realise they had live chat until someone told me, so on Tuesday I contacted them this way and they agreed to allow me access to my cpanel and ftp so I could retrieve my data. 48 hours after my first email I had a reply to the effect that I could no longer use emails or tickets to contact them. They email mail you to tell you they’ve deactivated you but you can’t use email to reply to them and get any information, the only way is through live chat which they don’t tell you in the email!!
Is this any way to do business?
Next I had an email form the abuse department that I was using too many resources. Here’s an extract
“Bluehost’s service is designed to meet the typical needs of small business and home business website Subscribers in the United States. It is NOT intended to support the sustained demand of large enterprises, internationally based businesses, or non-typical applications better suited to a dedicated server.”
So am I a large enterprise with 20 niche websites and a blog? or is it the “internationally based businesses” part that’s the problem?
They allow you to have 100 databases and unlimited space etc. Doesn’t 100 databases imply 100 websites? Obviously they really don’t mean ‘unlimited’ at all. What i am angry about is the way they went about this. If they only want you to have say 15 websites say so! Or let me know that I am exceeding their magic no (whatever it is). I would have stopped adding sites and hosted on another server. No warning just pull the plug is appalling business practice.
I have now moved all my websites to a new account on Hostgator and they are working fine. So far I haven’t seen a drop in SERP’s.
My apologies for being down since Monday. Blue Host suddenly, with no warning, deactivate my websites for ‘using too many resources’
I am busy transferring my sites to Hostgator. Not everything will work on this site (test sites etc are not set up yet)
More later.
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