Originally Posted by wankawonk

either can work. for tubes, buying traffic has more limited potential than SE traffic. You're basically limited to trying to convert CJ traffic or get listed on aggregator sites. The amount of traffic is somewhat limited and the profit margins are small.

Think about it, if you get listed on tubegalore, you might buy 10k/month traffic and make 12k back. Well....you just made 2k. Tubegalore made 10k. Wouldn't you rather be tubegalore in this equation?

However, buying traffic can be great for SEO, if you know what to do with the traffic you buy.