PPC traffic for mainstream HOW DO YOU EVER MAKE ANY MONEY?
 

I don't get how anyone makes anything buying PPC traffic these days
I know some guys are pretyy brilliant at filtering the funnel but DAMN

By the time I sell an item for $20 or $40 if I'm buying PPC traffic I have to be doing 1:10 Or even much better
Sure there's value in building a small brand and a customer should be worth more than that one initial sale but DAMN

WHAT THE FUCK EVEN THE FUCK

Meanwhile if you want to put the work in to find long tails last time I bought some traffic messing around the last two times it told me something to the effect of
That isn't a hugely popular term and bids aren't high enough so you can't have the traffic at all

Does anyone remember GO2?
GO2 was really cool

What's good these days besides facepage and AdWords? Any tips for me? I'm not just trying to push CPA offers or something I'm selling hardware is what it is

PS: Can you have adsense contextual based ad code on a page you're buying traffic to these days or is that still prohibited?