What would you guys suggest for me to do?

First test methods which you know whether that's free or paid find out which one is giving you good results in testing duration and then follow the best option...

If you are a complete beginner I recommend free traffic, for a few reasons.

It will give you a good grounding in how this industry works, how to choose offers, how to target an audience and generate traffic, how too communicate effectively with your AM etc. It will also allow you to build up a onsistent income stream and then use that to delve into paid traffic.

The great thing about free traffic is that once earning an income, most of the tasks can be outsourced and run on auto pilot.

Paid traffic is tough and I wouldnt advise you to jump in with just $25 or a small budget. The learning curver can be tough and can definitely lead to frustration if you are not getting the results you desire.

Most [aid campaigns, for me anyway, generally start off at a loss before I make them profitable through testing and tweaking. So you need a solid budget to help you through the testing part of a campaign.

Also if you do manage to hit a successful campaign fairly quickly then you will need a good source of capital to scale that campaign up, if you don't have the required funds ready then you are essentially missing out on profits whilst you wait for your payment from a network.

I have seen begineers succeed and fail at both so it really comes down to what piques your interest the most and where you feel your personal skills lie.

Only go with paid if you've done your research.

If you know what you are doing its possible to start with paid then put all profits into longterm SEO

The reason behind saying testing methods first is for few peoples free method works but for others Paid works good as per different scenario and the CPA offer you select.. testing methods will give you good idea of which one is working good for you and also you will get personal experience that will help you for future..

With paid traffic your $25 will be gone before you know it, likely without any conversions too if you are just starting out.

Find a niche and master it with free traffic and it will be a lot easier to break into it with paid traffic.

I agree, if you don't have a good budget to use, go with free traffic first.