CatLady - 4:09 pm on Feb 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

I stick with organic traffic through SEO, directory listings, and link exchanges. I started out with a niche directory/community site before I even knew what affiliate marketing was (and before AdSense existed). Out of curiousity, I eventually put up a couple links to a dating site that was very well-targeted to this niche and was very pleased with the results. Since then I've been bitten by the "afiliate bug", so to speak.

For what it's worth, none of the sites I've built for the purpose of promoting affiliate products or AdSense have done nearly as well as that first site, however. Producing a site for your visitors FIRST seems to be the way to go (in my somewhat limited experience anyway).

Dabbled very briefly in PPC without having a clue about it and found it to be a collosal waste of money. My goal for this year is to get better educated about PPC and then give it another try.

[edited by: eljefe3 at 4:16 am (utc) on Feb. 2, 2007]