Need some help to understand affiliate websites. I want to start one. Which are best and how to? Thank you!?

[Marlee]

I think the true path to "income" in affiliate marketing is not in content blogging (which I also do) but instead in promoting affiliate offers on micro-niche sites and also as you develop experience in creating squeeze pages (landing sites) and using various paid traffic sources to funnel them through your own opt-in site (where you get them on YOUR mailing list) and then they pass on to the offer you're promoting.

Having "blogged" for years and written so many articles at sites like Squidoo and Hubpages that I could've written a book, I don't think most people can expect a full living income from it. For those who have everything align, then sure, they can, but from my own experience and knowing many bloggers it isn't likely. I think a good income range for an average blogger who is doing it right on a content site is $500 - $750 a month, and that is writing every day or two with SEO optimized content so people find and visit the site. It is a lot of work to maintain a site and a mailing list (newsletter) when you consider the gain. I'm talking about "average" and not the few who do make a lot from content sites.

Lot's of affiliates make multiples of that figure with less work and stress with CPA and other offers that they promote on tiny Squeeze Page sites via paid traffic. I own over a dozen sites (several are content heavy blogs) as well and so I have years of experience behind my opinion. Anyone just starting out can do no better and for no less than Andrew's. There are others, like Google Sniper and Affilorama, but Forever Affiliate is tops in my opinion... because of Andrew himself if no other reason. Money Blogger has a pretty good review of the program.