First of all, my webmaster career started by being hosted on my friend’s dedi for free, and buying domains on phone bill. Yes!
It has been obvious for me that if you don’t invest in more than just a good software (which I could have made by myself and my friend niflostancu) you won’t get very far. Meaning I’ll never cross my $10/day revenue by being a freebie junkie.
It all started with buying a hosting plan from HostGator (600 GB HDD, 6 TB BW - neat! - 10$/mo) and well after PayPal opened the doors for Romania, it all went boom and activity on my account started to go in.. mostly.. and nowdays in and out.
I’ve made 120$ by selling flat advertisement in DigitalPoint, I have a good charisma I assume an I also provide good services, combined you get that much money in few days, like I did, after a few days the thread gets saturated and no more offers start to come as people assume you sold everything out!

I’ve invested the 120$ in link building mostly, for the SE juice:
- 60 premium directories ($50)
The initial offer was 14.99$ / link, but the guy contacted me and made his offer for $2 / permalink - ooookay, not bad, but the art of being romanian got me from $120 / 60 links, to 50$ / 60 links (under $1 per link) - Don’t ask me why, I’m born with it.
- 3 month bolded top link on a teen forum ($70)
Yes, it’s highly related, has a good keyword density, tons of indexed pages and activity on the forum. The bad part, there are quite a few links there, even though it’s site-wide.
I’ll get back to you shortly to see how this developed, I’m tagging it, “Ads $120″.