I have $200. Is it useful? or stick with SEO?

You could make money with $200 but if you are totaly new then it would be tough to achieve.

With PPc, PPV etc you need a decent budget in order TEST what works, this is where most people mess up they dont have enough budget to test and never find a successful campaign.

You will be very lucky to find something profitable straightoff the bat.....but good luck

I would suggest to go for SEO, but domain, hosting, tools for 200 $. It would take time to convert 200 to 400, but it is achievable. With PPC, you are bound to lose when you start unless you collect required data and use it for future.

To be honest you will need to learn first . Choose one traffic source and learn it during learning process you can`t expect to make $400 out of $200 , but here i want to say that no one can give you exact figures maybe you lose all money or you make $600 out of those $200, so best bet is to try out your self there is no guaranteed how much you will make out of $200

Well for learning or not, adwords is good to start if your just getting your feet wet, they have good traffic and will get you conversions which will give you the confidence and money to push further. Only downside is you cannot directlink to an affiliate offer. If you know some SEO though, you can easily get a site up and running throw a little review, put some content and have a CPA offer in your ads on the side. If you do your keyword research properly and stick to products / services that are in demand, you should be able to reap some benefit.

Now otherwise, if you have a continued source of income......you can start ppv with 200$, and then have a minimum deposit of 20$ there after if you go with lead impact of mediatraffic. This money would be for testing and to get your foot in the door. I dont know if you have a consistent stream of income or not, but realistically testing will take quite a bit of money. PPC adds up quickly especially on google, and ud be surprised, even at 2 cents per view, PPV will add up QUICK. So you choose the road you wanna go down, but CPA marketing is a great way to get going into the IM world.

Goodluck either way. Your gonna need it

Jeremy

I would also add something:

Do it step by step. NEVER try and test everything at one time!
Trust me I've done it and in most cases all you get is a big mess.
Here is how I would spend 200USD:
- I would buy good tool for Keyword Research - if would help you not only in building additional content for your sites but also help you find out what is going on in PPC world
- buy some backlinks

If you are so into PPC here is a quick tip:
- do a research on your keywords and create a list of similar words but with misspelled words and mistakes that people can do, probably no one is targeting this kind of traffic, so you can get new traffic for a very low price

Depending on how you work this IM business, it takes time to see some decent money. I'd suggest you go for free traffic via SEO. You can use $200 to buy a domain & hosting.

SEO IS BEST FOR NOW.

I suggest you try some SEO and get free traffic first.

You will burn very easy $200 Better go with SEO if you know how to do it and with WEB 2.0

It is possible but unlikely, if that is your budget I'd keep it and do seo to start. You could also use it to help you with your seo for link building or directory listings

I suggest high targeting, watch your CTR closely and you wont have to spend a lot and still make a decent amount of money.