Sometimes what the products instruct you to do are nothing more than a spam or splog tactic or even worse a terms of agreement violation that will get your affiliate account cancelled. The technique I find that works really well is to have a theme centered website with a keyword in the domain name. This technique alone has saved me a considerable amount in ppc advertising and the cost of registering the domain is offset by this savings. Secondly, you can use your own website to create subdomains for different products or different topics. Having your own website or many website allows you to do several things. The sales will come as you gain more experience and build your business.
It all comes down to ideas and experimentation. Basically, if you continue to grow your business by becoming a savvy business person through experience, then you won't need the hype. If you treat your affiliate marketing endeavors as a business, you don't need to buy into the hype. Ingore the hype Whenever something changes in ppc advertising or a new scheme is devised to make money with affiliate marketing, a new guide generally comes out that is strictly hype. I began affiliate marketing almost exactly a year ago. If you are simply using the affiliate links in the search engines, you have no choice but to accept the landing page the vendor provides you. Remember what it's like to be a buyer I think one aspect that affiliate marketers forget is what it's like to be the buyer.