Hi

I am new to affiliate marketing. I started a few months ago when I asked my former employer how to be their affilate and found out about TradeDoubler.

Since then I have promoted them and others through Google and have had reasonable success and have built up a couple of grand in my TD account.

However things have been setback as TD have suspended CarCreditUk for non payment and they owe me a lot! It seems TD are not very good at chasing payment as some invoices are outstanding since April.

I'm not deterred though, it seems there are millions of opportunities here even if it seemed too good to be true at first. Just set up a few lucrative programmes and sit back with a passive income. It seems I was a bit naive.

I have been hearing about this spyware thing and don't really understand it.

What I want to do now is build my own affiliate site. I have found SBI! and was thinking of using that. My area is personal finance, loans, banking, insurance, credit cards as those seem to pay the best commissions. Does anyone recommend SBI! or anything else?

I am now trying to find the best way forward. Should I build a content site with links or just a gateway page and try and get traffic through niche keywords?

Any advice?

Thanks for your help.

Charlton