are there any success stories out there where you buy advertising on a related site and your adsense earnings increase exponentially? Did your daily earnings remain better after the marketing campaign completed or did your earnings return to normal? I guess what i'm saying is that my site makes some money now but i'm looking for it to turn the next corner. I'm willing to put some money into advertising and want to make sure i get the most bang for the buck. It would be nice to hear some instances of other people doing the same thing and their site took off and earnings increased daily. I guess its all motivational factors for me.
I have never done this so I cant say anything from experince but what I have read indicates that you would be much better off to spend the time and money building more content and doing some SEO. If you are in this for the long haul you will be much better off with higher ranking in the SE aswell as more orgranic traffic than you will if you use this quick hit traffic.
I also think about buying an ads campaign in a webring. It's good for the exposure and possible getting lots of traffic. But I am curious if this is a legitimate way in the eyes of Google Adsense.
Have not thought of webrings in like, years... It used to be a great way to advertise. Find a webring that complemented your website, and either join (drawback, putting the webring on your site), or buy advertising if the webring accepted. Whether that works today, I may have to spend time tomorrow hunting down webrings and checking it out. Very legitimate way of advertising as your ad is shown on mostly (depends on the webring) sites that are good fits for your site.
Webrings. You mean where they stuff your site waaaaaaaaaaay down on the page where no one sees it? I think that's one of the reasons it sort of died out as a viable way to get free traffic.