Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I’m 16 and I went through some survey sites with very little success. Also, I tried some affiliate marketing and made $0. Where can i go to make some cash online? I forgot to mention that I tried to write some articles but I don’t know how to make money with them.

Also, what about “Outsourced Data Entry”? I already know about all the scams out there, thanks.

Have started affiliated marketing of e-books about relationship and sexuality since October 2009. Till now, have problems in converting traffic into sales. I rely heavily on article marketing, till date, I have submitted over 200 articles on various sites, one of which is at ezines. I post 3 articles a week. I have also created a blog and it now has over 300 postings and have a daily traffic of over 300 visits. I have also signed on social networking sites, forums and also ping my blog regularly. I have signed up for back links or reciprocal links on various directories. Till now, my sales are very pathetic.I can’t even more than US$100 per month and sales are very sporadic. I have paid close attention to using keywords such as choosing those keywords which boost a monthly search of at least 500 on my headings and 1st few paragraphs of my articles.
I’m not sure what went wrong. I have been doing things very diligently, consistently and in a very disciplined manner.
I need some advice in how I can successfully convert the traffic to my sites into real sales as well as any other advice on how to turnaround my situation. Thanks for your advice and suggestions.

Yes I am well aware that there is lots of free information on the internet to learn affiliate marketing. The problem is the free route is more time consuming I would think. I am new to affiliate marketing to im just guessing. It just seems to me that it would take a long time to read up through a bunch of message boards and websites for a little information here and there. I was curious if there was a good book(or website) that would have most of what I would need to learn in one place so that i dont have a spend years learning bits and pieces and from trial and error. I will pick a best answer and thanks to everyone that trys to help!

I know that affiliate marketing is out there. And paid surveys. However with affiliate marketing one has to be a computer geek. And with paid surveys most are scams. Do you have a hobby that makes money for you.