Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I have a quick question Warriors. When promoting ClickBank Products, is there any recommended ways to promote a specific product using a specially created website specifically for that product? IE. I don’t just want to promote the hoplink for the product, I would prefer to have my own site that feeds into that product’s page, this way I can develop the traffic to my own site, and possibly even sell it later on once it becomes profitable in promoting the clickbanks.net product.
Are there any recommended ways of doing this? I know creating Blogs and Review sites are good for promoting multiple products in a specific niche, but what about promoting just one single product? How could I do that the right way through my own website dedicated specifically to that product? Possibly a Squeeze Page or something else?
Thanks! Your help is appreciated!

i was wondering, what happens when a customer visits the vendors page through my hoplink, waits for somedays and confirms if he should buy the product. And re-visits the vendors page directly without going through my hoplink (obviously, by now he knows the url of the vendors page of the product he’s interested in) and makes the payment, will i still get my comission? If not, then is there a way to avoid this from happening?

I’ve been doing affiliate marketing for a while. I picked the marketplace of my favorite, generate a hoplink, and I put it in as the destination url and bought traffic to that site and it brought 6000 visitors to it. So far, I’m making no money.
What went wrong? Is it that I’m missing something or don’t have a website or a blog? Or is it that ClickBank is a scam?

I have a 3-month old site (my first) with which I directly sell my own product (as a vendor) through Clickbank. However I have just seen that a search on Google for any of my keywords now only brings up a certain affiliates hoplink in place of my site. The meta description is mine and the SE results/rankings match those in my Google Webmaster Tools so it definitely should be my direct site link coming up and not an affiliate.
My official site is http://www.teachenglishabroadguide.com
The result that comes up is
http://www.teachenglishabroadguide.com/?hop=andrewghay
A search for “teach english abroad guide” will show this on the first page.
On yahoo it looks fine.
Can anybody tell me if this is some dirty black hat trick by the affiliate and what I should do to get my link back (preferably without losing my rankings)?
I’d be very grateful for any help.