I have a website that I show webcomics with, but I really don't make much from it so I noticed how much money people make on average with affiliates so I thought I would give it a go. The problem is my website doesn't get a whole lot of traffic so getting enough clicks on my affiliates to make money is a bit of a problem. I had the idea of signing up with projectwonderful because advertising with them is so ridiculously cheap it's ridiculous and showing my ads there. I put in $10 and got about 58 clicks with that and it came out to be $.15 CPC. No sales yet for my affiliate, but would this be a good idea to continue? I'm not sure since I haven't made a profit yet.
The difference is clear... In the latter strategy, you made a loss of more than $9. Why not try and refine your article marketing strategy? The beauty of article marketing is the potential for residual income years later as it will keep pulling traffic. Cant you see the loss?
Are you buying traffic to send to your website in hopes they will then click through to your CPA ads?
No, I would put the affiliate link directly in the advertisement without using my website at all. I'm not sure if it's against the ToS for the program but I think it's fine.