I've dabbled in both, although I'm sure there are plenty of you out there who can put either of these traffic building techniques to greater use than I, but I am curious as to which affiliate strategy will really build long term, steady income. I've done the PPC thing for a short time and didn't get anywhere. Probably spent around $300 and only made $250 of it back...maybe! It feels a lot like gambling, and with 2 kids to feed, I'm not sure I'm ready to jump back in. I like the idea of SEO, in that you're building a long-term site that can build a solid traffic base, but I tend to get burned out before it ever reaches that point. I dred the though of spending countless hours on a site, making 50 to 100 pages of content to rank well, then not getting anything out of it. Or making that much content and never ranking well. I read about people making 100 sites and continually updating them all...is that the key? Just keep making the sites anyway and wait for the odds to hopefully start leaning my way? Which strategy wins? Anyone want to weigh in? Just curious where your experience led you.
With SEO, you need to know what you're doing, and always be figuring out ways to get new backlinks, etc. With PPC, it's kinda instant. You're almost automatically ranked for the keywords you want, but at a cost.
I think SEO is a lot better. Always think long-term success over a short-term one. I would much rather an automated income stream from SEO than from making the same amount of money from PPC as I would have to constantly tweak my ad copy and keywords. But then again, if you spend 6 months or so optimizing for the wrong keyword...
whoops...i just noticed that i had duplicate posts...sorry about that...i'll see if i can delete them...for some reason my posts were not showing earlier so i didn't think they were submitted properly...my bad