Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I’ve been smashing my head against this screen for weeks now trying to figure out the intricacies of affiliate marketing, only to have to go to a guide, for a plugin, then have to go to a guide for the website for the plugin, then have to go through a guide about whether or not the website was right. (wordpress, pretty links for cloaking) and I’ve read Affiliate Project X twice, and it seems like legit stuff I’m just so stumped.
Would anyone who’s already successfully making an income be willing to take a fellow struggling working man under his wing for the occasional question? Appreciation doesn’t describe how I would feel if I could somehow connect with someone who is already making a substantial income online as an affiliate.

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. . .Sonnet 159
You left a spectral smile that stalks my mind,
To haunt my only niche in Time and Space,
My every thought in reverie I find,
Reminisces its curve and grace;
You’ve gazed into my eyes, fathomed my soul,
To bare intricacies of my desires,
Then groped in darker alleys of our stroll,
But looked up to ideals, my heart aspires;
Thus, an open book to your touch, I’d been,
That you could read, by browser or by braille,
Times of my life, the hues and shades, you’ve seen,
With their secrets, but not for me to wail;
……A book you can treasure and read again,
……Or its pages might shade you from the rain.
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