Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I am just wondering, because I know there must be some sort of self-marketing trick to it. Some “not-so-good” artists have millions of page views, and some phenomenal artists have virtually none, so I know that it must be at least PARTIALLY unrelated to quality.
I am an artist who began submitting my work on the site about three months ago, and I have hardly any page views at all.
I am not asking that people LIKE my work, only that they have the opportunity to actually see it and give me some feedback.
If there are any secret tips that have eluded me, could someone please share?
thank you!

I looked at hub pages and maybe wanted to post stories on there and with google adsense make some cash. But I was wondering if there was a site aimed more towards creative writing as hub pages is very general and if adsense works with such a site. If you can’t think of any does anyone have any feedback on creative writing on hub pages and if it gets a lot of views?