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.

I have been making websites when I was 12 year old may be m a youngest web designer and developer any ways m 15 now ill be 16 on 18 august I have many websites m affiliate of green smoke and have been marketing clickbank products but not generating good income I make $30-50 per month but they are not enough I want to make 150$-never ends per month what should I do what kind of website should I make as I can buy unlimited domain names and have ulimited web hosting for 10 years so no problem to make website and m very good at psd html php css jquery and all others but what kind of website should i make to generate good income if any one need website to be make please contact me I also sale domain names @ $5 per year

I am having a website built for me by a friend of a friend and I want to ask them about adding an affiliate application where a code can be entered that gives a purchaser money off and also pays the affiliate who advertised the code. Is this a complected thing to ask for or is this something any web designer can install?

I feel like there’s this wall between starting my idea for a niche social network & finding a coder or web developer. (This is my third question about this subject). I don’t want to use those sites that have a basic social network all set up for you. They are crap, am I wrong? I need 1-3 good coders & a good web designer. I don’t want to find a company full of coders & designers because I cannot pay one up front. I will already have to pay for a domain name & eventually find investors. I’m not asking for a coder to work FOR me for free, I’m trying to find one to work WITH me who would eventually make a percentage of the eventual royalties. Most likely they would have a larger percentage than I would since they did a lot of the time-consuming work.
Is this possible to find a coder & web designer willing to do this?? If yes, should I try to find one through people I know? Where else could I look? Should I post on Craigslist? Should I have my idea perfectly written & planned on paper first (already in the process)? Should I skip all this & try to sell my idea to Google? lol
I’m totally clueless about the creation of a good social network, so be gentle.

I am a web designer and have a client who owns a DBA of a business (martial arts school) called (for privacy we’ll call it) XYZ Martial Arts. He owns two gyms in NY and had a partner for one of his stores set up his hosting and domain name for his website years ago. He’s recently had a falling out with this person and is no longer is affiliated with the other gym which has a totally different name now. Unfortunately when his partner set up his domain name, he registered it under his name. So he is now using XYZmartialartsny.com and OFFERING ALL THE SAME services to the TEE. Since the site is old i’ts been up for a long time and ranks OK. But if someone gets referred to my client and does a search by name… the other school comes up as if it’s my clients and the user would have NO idea that it’s not the school they originally searched for. This guy can say that he was affiliated with them and direct new clients to him. This I do NOT believe is legal, as it is completely misleading users. Does anyone know anything about this? Is there anything I can do legally, quickly and easily to get my clients name back without a hassle? I’ve been going nuts and no one seems to have a clear answer.
Thanking anyone in advance who takes a minute to guide me.

I don’t want to give away much about it, but I want a simple classifieds site built. It would be a 3-5 page website. Again, very simple site (along the same lines of a craigslist, but something with color and wayy less categories, as this will be focused on one specific market niche). Can anybody refer me a web designer/builder that they know is quality? I am working on a budget as well so nothing astronomically outrageous…thank you in advance!