Now that's an article I'd call no-nonsense and informative.
There are only a rare few affiliates I would promote. Mainly because they're run by competent people who take the time to answer customer service emails and webmaster emails. That's very important to me.
That means the customer is being served as well as the webmaster.
You can make a living and a good living just being a full time affiliate barker. It's a fuckload of work til you know the ropes.
I'm about to launch a couple of affiliate programs. Sometimes you only need ten kick ass webmasters to make you. Ten thousand that can't sell squat is not as good as 100 who kick ass. It's a 50-50 deal. Your site has to sell itself and the affiliate has to sell your site. So the two meet and if all is good you make money and security.
The main caveate now is knuckleheads not keeping their records correct. So for me, the sites I'll promote are the MILF sites as long as I'm doing a cartoon in that niche. At least you can tell at a glance the age of the women generally