Looking for good PPC and CPM advertising strategy

I’m looking for a good way to advertise my credit card affiliate site (http://www.credit-card-apply-online-here.com). I first tried Google Adwords, but had some problems. The first problem is that most of the obvious keywords are ridiculously expensive. The second problem is that the way Adwords works, it doesn’t matter if you find keywords that have almost no adwords for (low competition). Google already has some sort of "quality score" for these, and they insist you raise your bid to some large amount before they will show your ad, even if only 1 or 2 other ads are showing for this keyword. In other words, the keywords that Google thinks will convert into clicks already have lots of people bidding on them so the CPC price is too big, but Google also has a large min bid required on all the other keywords that Google has found don’t convert into clicks.
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