Update: Out of the 6 of us (three daughters, two friends, and myself) that have started this method three of us (one daughter, one friend, and myself) are making money, $29-$18-$92 respectively. The three that dropped out are now writing articles again trying to catch up! Lol.
Biggest lesson learned so far: The "personal blogger persona" is really paying off.
1. People seem to trust more.
2. You can get your links to stick better and avoid bans. I had this problem with meatheads first $100/day noob method (my first online money way back when btw).
Finding high traffic forums that allow a link in our sigs has been working well, even if the forum is only in the general vicinity of our niches. Stay simple, non commercial, just wanna help the world, goodie goodie. If it was your forum what would you want people to post? Be overly helpful and ultra giving.
I didn't even put Amazon links on the site until the sig link was approved. My daughter did but she was already very established on her forum. We have all been banned from a few sites already. Lol. Just keep going!
Also, all of our sites are ranking for dozens of longtail keywords, some even second page with no seo work other than on page and forum posting. We are getting organic hits but can't tell who is converting.