i just read it somewhere.. so posting for you to mesmorige First of all all those ppl seeing peanuts with adsense + affiliate programs using article submission directory submission and link building and thinking $100 per year per site and 100 site is enough for them.. is actually not even making $30 per year per site... And loosing big time online.. So SEO and those low comp keywords tutorials.. actually getting peanuts traffic from the article directory iteself.. or some fraction of low comp keywords traffic from search engines.. and virtually making nothing from their sites.. other then few adsense clicks... That is why speed100 and few wickedfire crooks where jumping on trees with their affiliate income and was comparing it with real life business.. They have the credit card power. MONEY MAKES MONEY
Success = Money x Effort The above equation is what I always believe in. If you do not have the money, you will need to do it the hard way, which is to start writing articles and start building links for your sites to rank better. Affiliate sites or review sites will not get any instant traffic right from the start. However, every article that you write and every link that you build will become part of your money making assets later on. As time goes by, your site will gain authority in Google and will start to rank well. $30 a year is really an easily achievable figure for review sites. You can make more right from the start but it is all down to how much effort that you are willing to put in. To the thread starter, money brings in money? Not necessarily. My guess is that you have never advertise using the best advertising network online, Google AdWords yet. To have success and start earning with it, you will need to lose a lot of money on experiment and testing as well.
I agree with Wayne... Money makes things alot easier. I wouldn't call SEO rubbish, it definitely has the power to make or break a site depending on what the site is.
The OP is wrong. Way off.... It's not 2 million US uniques, it's only 2,400 a month. Look at the chart again.
how to be a baller: make free money with seo to fund your ppc campaigns, then once you are rolling in the dough with ppc forget seo. save up some profits from ppc and get ready for media buys!