My friends and family have been asking me: "Art, how come you sit in your underwear all day long staring at an empty word document? Why don't you shave anymore? What is the secret to your affiliate marketing failure?!"

I don't know why affiliate marketing needs to get complicated. I don't like having to make any effort. I want to stick a website out there with a couple pages of information on it, a privacy policy and I want to forget it. I also want to collect huge earnings from my affiliate links. That's the way it should be, you know, just like Jay's video. However...

I decided to promote rat bracelets, with almost no competition, how could I fail? These bracelets make the rats feel real pretty and the owners simply glow with pride when they show off their nightmarish pets. Then I read about how lugging the bracelet around may decrease their horrid life span. Then I discover there is a group of lawyers determined to sue anyone selling rat bracelets or even endorsing them!! It's personal now. I'm an evil insensitive person with a vanity website selling rat bracelets who should be sued and locked up for cruelty...

Fortunately, I do nothing to get any traffic to my sites. I believe the Idaho department of transportation should be doing that for me. No one goes there. Not me. No one. If someone does happen along the links will be dead and the brilliant niche product that filled my selfish dreams will no longer be available.

There are illuminating moments that push me into getting a website up and then I'm off to the river for fishing and contemplating the more important things like: The right lure. To fish a riffle or a still hole or maybe to sleep for a bit in the late afternoon shadows...

Back again. Another fevered, urgent, "I am an affiliate marketer with a great idea attack", and I wreak havoc on yet another wordpress site. No theme is safe from my well meaning efforts and when I am done it will lie exposed, lonely and mutilated on some unnamed internet street. The theme's once well managed html bludgeoned, it's pages full of grammatical errors, stale content and sour graphics. Yes, another failed niche idea is slowly sinking in the murky Google waters, taking an occasional hit from the fierce Panda, and finally resting on the bottom of the serps never to trouble me again until Go Daddy reminds next year that I am responsible for it.

I don't know when you have the that mysterious !AHA! moment I have read about but you can be sure I'm looking forward to it. I think that comes with producing a website that you actually like with exciting, honest to goodness, fresh, piping hot content that interests you, mesmerizes the reader and makes him, or her just have to have what you're dishing out. That's never been a problem for me yet.

Look Here..

I'm a lazy country hick when it comes to it, but tomorrow that's all going to' change. I'm going to update all those sites and I'm going to write articles, delight the forums with my brilliance, and comment on everything with a link back to my site. Oh yeah. There are going to' be plenty of web 2.0 properties. Link wheels and such..

That reminds me. There's a circus coming to town. It's a cracker jack of a show too. Right out of the big city. I'll be getting to those websites soon as I get back... Did I mention the fishing pretty good right now?... and no. I don't know why I'm not finding success at affiliate marketing!

I wish great success to all, even if it's only an occasional blast of steam, NEVER EVER GIVE UP!