Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I’ve attempted using Squidoo in the past but get so ticked off because it keeps telling me that my content needs to be original. The only copied content that I used on the lens were of brief descriptions of products I was reviewing or places I wanted to visit… I kept getting so many errors it was driving me nuts, I got five lens to publish but they were soon taken down…
What I find utterly funny is I use maybe one or two affiliate links sometimes none at all and have such a hard time getting my lens published, other people seem to get away with murder on this site… they load it down with bits of articles changing just a few words here and there and adding videos from YouTube and other video sites, tossing up a few pictures form an image search and filling it up with tons of affiliate links… what gives?