The core to affiliate marketing is traffic generation. You need to find hand free systems of traffic generation that once set up you can forget about or spend minimal time on in order to keep building your list and your overall sales.
This method is called SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Every day millions of searches are made and if your not tapping into these searches and getting these people to your pages you are missing out on a lot of traffic and income potential.
I created a site here about
affiliate marketing tips to help you out in getting started and even getting you pros in on a few details as well.
SEO works best with a wordpress blog, I highly recommend you go and start your own right now and start posting valuable and quality content to it. You will need to find out what plugins to use to maximize your blog and lucky for you I have a post about that as well at
top wordpress plugins.
Start creating helpful content and building your traffic streams today.