Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I want to start an affiliate online marketing business but i dont know how it works!
Can i hire a freelance person to help me out and how would this person help me, it sounds confusing because i have no idea how affiliate marketing works!
Do i need to have a website already?
I have a cooking blog.
Thanks

I am looking to apply for an ABN because it is necessary to have one to receive payments from various affiliate marketing websites.
I am not sure what to put this business under. It asks if I have an enterprise established in Australia.
What is the deal? Does a website count as an enterprise?
There are supposed penalties to giving incorrect information in this form so I want to get it right. At the same time this is made as confusing as possible so it isn’t really fair that penalties apply.

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I’ve been an internet marketer for quite some time, mostly affiliate marketing. I’m thinking about building some adsense sites, and want to hear from some who are successful google publishers. How many sites do you have?

I’ve been smashing my head against this screen for weeks now trying to figure out the intricacies of affiliate marketing, only to have to go to a guide, for a plugin, then have to go to a guide for the website for the plugin, then have to go through a guide about whether or not the website was right. (wordpress, pretty links for cloaking) and I’ve read Affiliate Project X twice, and it seems like legit stuff I’m just so stumped.
Would anyone who’s already successfully making an income be willing to take a fellow struggling working man under his wing for the occasional question? Appreciation doesn’t describe how I would feel if I could somehow connect with someone who is already making a substantial income online as an affiliate.