Let me tell you a bit about my background so you'll discover that I began just like everyone else .In August 2003, I picked up a guide written to help affiliate marketers by sending traffic from pay per click engines, especially Overture. I made some good money for about 7 months straight, even on Google AdWords before it was the current self-service model. It was awesome. I ended up dropping my job as a bank teller to pursue it full-time. Then something inevitable happened. Within a year, the field was no longer that virgin, competition-less place it used to be. My ROI for the clicks I bought diminished to chump change. costs per click upped for many niches . I could no longer afford to convert at my comfortable 1:100. My checks from affiliate marketing stayed the same, but each day I looked at my ad costs, and it was a devastating feeling. I really did not want my 9-to-5 day job again. I thought that this was just the fate of the online advertising game. As a result, I decided to try out search engine optimization instead, because of it's promises of free organic traffic . Turns out, I just couldn't keep up with the search engine game as it was ten times more com...