Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Hello All.
Hope some of you will be able to give me some straight answers for these questions. I’ve done my own little ‘crash course’ into SEO and Internet Marketing this week. I’m confident (ish) on most areas, but have stumbled on some questions which I need to clarify. (Sorry if some of these sound stupid) but here goes :
1.) Do Follow and No Follow Links. I know how to see if a website is ‘Do follow’ or ‘No follow’ but when gaining backlinks, do I always have to type in either the ‘do follow’ or ‘no follow’ code? I know I should do this for commenting and my own blog, and for other blog comments, but what about article directories, guest blogging, directories etc?
2.) I understand that in theory, posting on ‘do follow’ Auto approved blogs isn’t good because it will probably be hit by scam. However, it I wrote some quality comments related to the niche and added a backlink to my own blog instead of my main page, would this be ok?
3.) How do I make my own personal blog, non- auto approved and no follow? Is it by installing the plugin Akismet?
4.) I’m currently having a website built, and I’m currently looking at Plugin’s for my WordPress blog. . My web designer hasn’t mentioned if he is going to install any Social Media plugin’s.for my blog. However on the blog page, he has included most of the social media links at the top. Do I still need to install a social media plugin, or can it be done manually without a special plugin(I’m abit worried as my designer doesn’t seem to know much about these plugin’s but has added these links for me anyway??
I appreciate your thoughts and comments.

She’s on the Market
She gaped at it for hours. It appeared too seductive for her to keep her little hazel eyes away. There were many different sizes for it. She always thought the one she had was just right. She was enamored by it’s intellect. It had broadened her mind and disclosed many new notions about the world she lived in. It told her secrets, things her parents and teachers would hide from her because she was young. Everyday it would teach her something new and add to her imagination. Invariably, her parent’s tried to keep her away from it. Luckily, they failed to. Her adoration for it was too dynamic to be broken. Television was her life. It was the love of her life. She knew that she was born part of the media world and nothing could ever change that.
Years have passed now, and this little girl’s passion for media and television has not yet departed. On the contrary, it has only become stronger. She had spent her middle school and high school years taking roles in the Sound of Music and Man of La Mancha. In her junior, she ran a campaign to be senior class president, and won. At an Annual Interstate Speech competition she placed first. Senior year, she was responsible for creating and designer the senior fashion show at her private school. She spent her past summer volunteering at a Senior Health Care, running programs and activities for the elderly. She has recently developed a passion for web designing and has become a freelance web designer.
For the past year or so, she’s has been working in the heart of midtown Manhattan as a Catering Director. Her main responsibilities were targeting major companies in New York City and discussing their catering options. She was in charge of marketing the companies’ food services, trying to make the business grow. In her office, she would sit for hours making cold calls until she nearly ran out of breath. She knew once she had reached a name, or the person in charge of food services, that she had found her target. For days, weeks, and sometimes months she would patiently email the target with follow-ups, advertisements, which she would create on her own, about the companies’ services. After offering discounts, sending complementary lunches, coping with the client’s schedules, she would finally receive an email with a date for the presentation from the company.
She became enlightened by the corporate world. She visited corporate office for companies likes Aeropostale, Michael Kors, Kate Spade, Mac Cosmetics, Diesel, Donna Karan and many more! Not only did she get the wonderful experience of providing the Directors, CEO’S, Marketers, Financial analysts, etc. with presentations but also, she got to work with them. She catered for their needs. She listened to their requests and helped provide satisfactory prices to meet their budgets needs. She created proposals for their events and even catered emergency orders at six in the morning. She developed new marketing tactics and grew a passion for the field. Best of all, she created a good client relationship. Her clients in the media, cosmetics, and fashion industry are what inspired her to follow her dream. When she visited them during fashion week or during holidays to give thanks for their services, they had raised her aspiration. The best part was that she saw that they could work with fashion and advertising at the same time. She dreams of the day she will be able to work in a corporation like those.
So, if you haven’t already heard, she’s on the market. She’s motivated, ambitious, and audacious. There are probably thousands of applicants to choose from for the advertising and marketing communications section at FIT. So, what differentiates her from the rest of the applicants? This girl is ready to use her creativity to bring a new era of advertising and marketing the Media industry. She wants her work displayed and advertised on billboard and in T.V commercials. She wants to work for a fortune 500 companies. She wants to take part in your AMA (American Marketing Association program). She wants to follow her dream. She’s ready to betray her mistress for her career. She’s ready for the competitions of the media world. And she really wants be your next FIT candidate. So what are you waiting for? Products don’t stay on the market forever. Accept her now and you are guaranteed an excellent addition to your school.
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I have been making websites when I was 12 year old may be m a youngest web designer and developer any ways m 15 now ill be 16 on 18 august I have many websites m affiliate of green smoke and have been marketing clickbank products but not generating good income I make $30-50 per month but they are not enough I want to make 150$-never ends per month what should I do what kind of website should I make as I can buy unlimited domain names and have ulimited web hosting for 10 years so no problem to make website and m very good at psd html php css jquery and all others but what kind of website should i make to generate good income if any one need website to be make please contact me I also sale domain names @ $5 per year

I want to go into the field of graphic design or multimedia. What I really want to do is design templates, forms, planner pages, calendars, organizers, statements, etc.
What should my educational focus be on for that?
What kind of designer does that particular niche? Is their a name for that?

I am having a website built for me by a friend of a friend and I want to ask them about adding an affiliate application where a code can be entered that gives a purchaser money off and also pays the affiliate who advertised the code. Is this a complected thing to ask for or is this something any web designer can install?

I love fashion so much it hurts. I’m 19 and just trying to find that think I’m good at, and love…My niche in life. I’m not going to lie I don’t know that much, if anything, about fashion. But you can always learn right? I’m not talking about being a designer. But whats some “beginner” jobs to, you know, get my foot in the door?
Another problem is I live in a UBER small town in Texas…and no money to move. But I’m assuming if I really what to do this I will have to move.