No skimming vs. skimming when spending little time
 

If I understand correctly, it takes a crap load of time, especially from a newbie to be successful in trading traffic because it is a zero sum game.

Yet I see comments like it takes a crap load more money to make a non-skimming TGP vs. one with skimming. I don't have thousands to spend on something I'm not sure will produce a good ROI.

Eventually, I will be writing a script that handles my FHGs/promo content pseudo-TGP completely for me (I will still do some manual maintenance every now and then.). Note that I will still have new daily FHGs.

So which path should I take? The no skimming or the skimming one?



Should I even use TTT if it won't skim? It seems to have some features which could be useful anyway.

No skimming, trading needs an essential thing you probably don't have so far: Additional traffic sources. No matter if search engine traffic, bought traffic, bookmarkers, you need traffic in addition to what your trading partners send.

The reason is simple: All scripts count hits a bit different, some just get lost, sometimes visitors won't click at all, etc. So you always have a traffic leak that needs to be filled or your trades will slowly die.

Thank you. Well actually I don't even have a site yet.

a little search engine traffic, significant start-up bought traffic and later on significant number of bookmarkers seem reasonable one year goals to me. After starting, I'm not sure if I'll keep on buying traffic.

So still think 0% skimming is best for me?

No matter what my ultimate goal is 0% skimming.