Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I’m a newbie to affiliate marketing & I’ve been studying this since a month. I’m trying to promote a dating website as an affiliate & I’ve signed up for a pay per lead program (i get paid if some one signs up for free) Now i dono how to promote this using free traffic! I’ve tried facebook groups but even though people join the group (they click the link) but they dont sign up for the website.So i thought of using squidoo but then they consider my article as spam & not letting it to publish. So now what should i do? should i go for blogging??? or free website (weebly)?? if blogging is the option how can i promote it? sholud i have to write articles about dating tips or review about websites? but these are the usual.. They dont seem to work now i guess.. Any other great new ideas guys??? I need your help. Anyhelp, ideas, suggestions etc are welcome. hope you can guide me.. thank you!