by: Allan Gardyne It's your road map to success as an affiliate. I've been earning a good living from affiliate programs since 1998. Based on that experience, this tutorial tells you the 18 steps to take to generate a useful income from affiliate programs. No tricks. No gimmicks. Just solid, reliable methods designed to work for years. You have the choice of many different ways of earning affiliate commissions. In my experience, you'll have your best chance of success if you do the following. Find a niche and create a useful, interesting, content-rich, keyword-rich website on one topic and weave in affiliate links and AdSense ads. This method with the more recent addition of AdSense ads has worked beautifully for me since 1998. I urge you to master this basic method. It's a bit like serving an apprenticeship. As part of your apprenticeship you'll learn SEO (search engine optimization) skills, copywriting skills and various other ...