How did you first get started using paid traffic?

Been there years ago and I know what it is to wander at the beginning with the whole lots of information that there is, wondering where to start. I was lucky to find great people to work with along the way and a really good niche market, so If you need help on where to start, I could offer you some really good converting products. Drop me a quick pm if you're interested.

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Svetlin

good question mate. It was like 6 years ago when I started with AdWords. I had to advertise an e-shop (family business). I was a noob, the website was crap, so money wasted

cause i am sick of seo.

Can you imagine having your whole expenses (house mortgage, car mortgage, education and etc) paid and relied on SEO?

That's like playing russian roulette.

I know everyone said, "SEO is free and cheap."

Come on, getting seo tools set you back a thousand buck.(1 tool is never enough)
How about spending your time backlinking?
If that's not all, can you guarantee that your ranking won't even dip 2-3 years later?

So, I am out.

I first started using paid traffic from cheap sources (URL redirect network) and I ended up losing badly on the campaign. So, I'll suggest targeted traffic is the way to go. I like Solo Ads and Bing PPC.

i started forex ppc with adwords then i use alsp bings and facebook ads but adwords works better for me

dburk and I are a couple of old warhorses. I started as well when Adwords was new. That was back in April 2002. I think there was something similar before that, a CPM model I think, not PPC as we know it today. Minimum bids were five cents.

Anyway, it was to advertise my software and I knew this had to be the best way to do it. Only problem is that I did not know or was unsure exactly how it all worked. First day did not go well. Back then, you had to have a minimum CTR of 0.5% or your ads were stopped. As I recall, you had to pay $5 again to restart them. So I paid $5 to join, another $5 to restart and I may have got just one or two clicks.

Undeterred, I learned over the next few days because I knew this had to be the best way to advertise. I just needed to understand the system and how to best take advantage. I just did not quite grasp the concept of keywords, doing what I see many do even today. I think most people just don't take the time to learn thinking it's so simple. But it's not and when it doesn't produce good results, they just say it's some sort of scam.

The system has evolved and changed over those years and I kept up, not always an easy task. After a few years, especially after telling others about Adwords, I was asked to set it up and manage it for them. I realized there's a market for this service so I branched out and that's all I do now.

To be successful at PPC, as dburk said, you have to spend time and money to learn and understand all the finer details. The more you do, the better your chances. If you are not willing or able to do this, your only other option is to hire someone to do it for you or forget PPC altogether.

I started with Adwords years ago and made loads of sales and then suddenly everything changed and google became far more difficult to promote affiliate products so I moved to Facebook and Bing. Bing are far more relaxed than google but that may all change!

Facebook, Yahoo! Bing Network and Google AdWords provide mass traffic.

I started off with buying solo ads to build my list, but I quickly discovered that in order to continue using this traffic source I needed a high converting funnel.

When you have a good funnel, you can do wonders.

To be fair, I am not dissing SEO completely.

It is just that PPC is more reliable and it is always good to sprinkle some SEO dust over it to get more earning.

But relying it as the core driver of your growth will be disastrous.

I have personally seen affiliates flying jet to taking bus just because of an google update.

Why are you losing your money if you are going for Pay per click. You can go for ROI called as return on investment. By using this method you can ask to return your money.