I started IM about 7-8 years ago, though it has been on and off. My first attempt was actually a good success. I wrote an ebook and placed some aff links in it and uploaded it to a torrent site. Banked a few $K off it when I was 16 or so and in school, which was a massive amount of money for me at that age. Pity I didn’t stick to that method, I didn’t pursue it after my torrent was removed and spent all the money on useless shit lol.

I’ve tried many different avenues, but AM with paid traffic takes the cake for the most enjoyable. The instant gratification is a huge motivator. Building websites (50+ made) and doing SEO is just too slow and isn’t fun. Well spamming with Xrumer is probably the most fun I had doing SEO and building websites. Sorry forum owners 😉

AM with paid traffic -> See the results of your work today.

SEO -> See the results of your work weeks to months later, only for your sites to be wiped out by a Google algo update >.<

Anyway, I successfully built some display camps making $100ish per day back in Janurary until about March direct linking offers. Awesome stuff, real fun. I travelled to Japan and worked off my smartphone aha, even made creatives on it from scratch XD no laptop FTL.

I was noobing around for 3 months or so and did some big noobie mistakes that are listed on this forum, such as editing profitable campaigns too drastically and not scaling over multiple traffic sources and targets as quickly as possible. Also, the source I was using suddenly disallowed redirects a ...

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