Source of traffic: paid vs organic

[SnowDevil]

How many of you are getting traffic by paying for clicks at a low price and making a profit on the outgoing clicks?

Myself and my business partner have been working on a few small sites and while we arent getting very much organic traffic right now (not more than $1 or $2 of adsense income per day), we're paying for traffic and making about 500% profit on what we spend. It's still not much and seems to bounce between about $5 and $30 per day on average, but never costs us more than a few dollars to earn that.

It still feels like cheating though. Our paid-for traffic only comes from one source currently, and we're thinking about expanding to other sources as well. I've found that via AdWords we seem to make a loss, I'm not really sure why. We're thinking of trying Miva and maybe AdBrite. I'd be interested if any of you have had any positive experiences from other sources of paid traffic.

[Nitrous]

You sound like one of the sites that go straight in my filter.

You are just another layer of ads with no real interesting content?

Or a genuin site that people want to visit naturally?

[jonathanlewis1973]

I seem to remember another thread about this (perhaps on a different forum). The poster said that it worked for a while, but within less than a month, the niches where it worked started drying up...

[jomaxx]

If you've found a legitimate PPC source of inexpensive traffic, good for you. But do not buy cheapo "bulk" traffic, unless you want to see that 500% profit margin to turn into a 100% loss. You will get banned and your earnings will be forfeited.

[Jafo]

I would be interested in hearing who you are paying to increase profit by 500%. Could you share or stickymail me?