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.

This isn’t a question but I wanted to raise awareness of the campaign to help the victim pay his medical bills since he is homeless & can’t. I’m in no way affiliated with this fund raiser but thought it could use more attention since the media hasn’t mentioned much about it so for anyone who’d like to help here you gohttp://www.giveforward.com/ronaldpoppore…

I’m atheist. My three-year-old daughter goes to a secular private preschool. All of the school’s documents say that the school is not religiously affiliated, and I made sure that the teacher understood we were atheist before I sent her to that school.
Today, my daughter sat down and recited a Christian blessing over her lunch. I asked her where she learned it, and she told me in no uncertain terms that her teacher has them “say the blessing” before eating. I asked her several times for clarification: is she the only one praying? Does she tell you to pray, too? Does this happen every day? And she made it very clear that this is a daily thing.
I’m absolutely livid. I paid $3,000 for a semester’s tuition at this school (that’s a third of my income) with the understanding that this stuff wouldn’t be happening there! Other than talking to the supervisors, would it be reasonable to request a refund, since the teacher misrepresented the school’s curriculum? If I’m not getting what I paid for, I want my money back!
Add to this that my daughter hasn’t learned ANYTHING since she started in school a semester ago, when it’s supposed to be the best pre-K education in the county… and I’m MAD! >:U

i have been seeing my psychiatrist for three years now, since i was diagnosed with bipolar. a couple of months ago i received a letter stating she will not see me due to me not being compliant with treatment. when i called to ask what it was about, she said she spoke with Margret (the person in charge of billing) (i owe 170.00) and the rest of the staff and they came to the conclusion they weren’t going to see me anymore. that means i cant see ANY DOCTOR in that office. I have been trying really hard to find another doctor with my insurance thats close to home. the ONE doctor i did find, will not see me because she is not affiliated with any hospitals and since i have been hospitalized a few times in the past she said no. another one is not taking new patients. i spoke with my current doctor and asked if she could continue filling my meds until i found someone. she said as long as i got my labs done she would do that. well i got my labs done and i tryed to get my medicine filled and she is refusing to do so. i am on lithium 600mg, klonapin, when needed, trazadone at night and seraquel 150 mg. i am out of the klonapin and lithium currently. she advised me to go to my PC which i know he will not fill meds he didn’t prescribe. I dont know what to do. my husband just lost his job, no insurance, i am worried about just stopping my meds. i just took my last dose last night. is it against the law to refuse care when the patient is on medicine and hasn’t found a replacement? and is on meds that are dangerous to just stop? i wasn’t even advised to wean myself off or anything. please help, i am desperate.

Do you mean to get products to market? If so, then Clickbank. Especially if you write blogs about how to make money on the internet. If you mean where to advertise, then facebook, yahoo answers, any blog page that lets you have affiliate links. Or you can create your own site and “snipe” the product you are marketing about. This is done by typing in your product and finding a website name very very close to it but hasn’t been used yet. I just wrote an Ebook called “Mr Money Banks” I offer 75% commission per sale so you will get $33 each time. If interested then email me and I will send you a free copy.

To be honest, when I read the title of this blog post at SEO.com in my reader, I was expecting more. However, it raises a great point we don’t often hear about.
The idea of using averages to measure out the competition level of a niche/vertical/industry.
Anyone doing it this way?
Or are you mostly relying on data provided from SEO Elite, Market Samurai, TT, and manual indicators right now?
SEO.com hasn’t been known as the best SEO resource site on the web, but they revamped a few months ago and have been doing a much better job from what I have seen.