Instead of adding to the mound of retread tires piling up on the “content dump” called the WWW, by writing anew about the elements of affiliate marketing success, allow me to spare Google and my server a few bytes of storage space by pointing you to the genius of Sugar Rae, a/k/a Rae Hoffman and suggest that you read about her experience, her thoughts and analysis of what it will take to survive as the affiliate marketing space evolves: How to Survive the Affiliate Evolution
When you are done reading her article look below it for links to her 5 part series on why most people fail at affiliate marketing.
Few folks in the space are as concise – and as generous with advice – as Rae Hoffman.
No, she’s won’t tell you what niches she is currently targeting or what keywords or ads are working best for her company. If you are still in the hunt for that type of information on the WWW (at least reliable, non-promotional info) then you will do well to read what she has said about why many (most?) people fail as affiliate marketers.