Affiliate marketing is just like any other business - 80% fail, 15% struggle, and 5% make a very nice income.

What steps do you need to take to help insure you make it into that 5% category?  There is really only one thing that you need to learn and master, and that's creating quality new content on a consistent basis - every single day like clockwork.  Many affiliates create a couple pages of lame content, pack those pages with hundreds of unrelated affiliate links, and then sit back and wait for the cash to roll in.  This will guarantee that you'll be in the 80% failure category.  The 15% strugglers will create some decent content with some related links and then occasionally add some new pages to their sites now and then - this will produce a little extra spending money for them, but not enough to make a living. 

To join the 5% club you will need to make a focused, committed effort on a regular schedule.  You need to add new content every single day of the week and you need to have a ratio of 95% helpful, informative content to 5% affiliate links.  Like me, I'm sure you've heard this over and over again - and then promptly ignored it as being too much work or simply too difficult.  The shortcuts, gimmicks, and automated scripts always seem so much easier - and they are at first - but then the search engines crush all that beautiful new content and you have to start all over again.  Trust me, you're much better off with 100 pages of quality articles and reviews than you are with 1,000 pages of useless junk.

One good way to put some decent content together is to use Searchfeed listings. Searchfeed has several unique tools available for publishers to help add some quality content to your sites.  Just remember this - he who has the highest quality and largest quantity of fresh content wins at the affiliate game - 99% of your time should be spent generating new content and publishing it for the world to see - EVERYTHING ELSE IS A WASTE OF TIME.