Nabs, a 22-year-old boy, after one and a half year's hard work, makes over 30K US dollars per month with Commission Junction as an affiliate marketer. The story is revealed in a long thread posted at Digital Point Forum with 58512 views and 723 replies. The thread has been kept hot for 244 days, because it got much attention and a lot of forum members were involved.

Nabs uploaded several screen shots indicating the amounts he earned: 35983.82 US Dollars for January 2008, 30014.97 US dollars for February 2008 and 45097.48 US dollars for March 2008. It is a brilliant success and his monthly income seems to increase steadily.

This is an inspiring thread and I spent a long time on reading all the 37 pages though there are arguments not related to the topics involved afterward. At the beginning, people threw many questions from how to choose products to how to get traffic. The answers from him are very informative and you can learn a lot from them. I have generalized most of his tips below for your information and you can also check out the thread directly here.

1. Affiliate Marketing is not an easy and get-rich-quick way to make money online. Everyone who wants to make real money from Internet needs to keep learning and doing and all the huge achievements come from continuous hard working. Nabs does not sit in his sofa waiting for money streaming into his bank account. He usually works for 14 hours every day updating more than 100 websites all by himself! If someone keeps reading those affiliate e-books without any action, he will surely get nothing at all, no matter how informative the e-books are.

2. Affiliate marketing is not rocket science and there are no secrets in affiliate marketing. The general way to make money form affiliate programs is to find a right niche and build a website promoting the relevant products. We need to update our sites regularly and work hard to get traffic to our websites. However most of us have the tendency to believe that there are secrets unrevealed by those successful people. We keep asking those people questions in order to find the secrets. The fact is there is no secret in affiliate marketing but hard working. If you are smart enough, you kind find all the information for free from blogs, websites and forums.

3. Get closer to sales will make you more money. Generally, product reviews work well. If someone is reading your product review, he definitely is interested in that product, and will buy it sooner or later. Therefore building review blogs or websites focused on a niche market will get high conversion rates. Pick a product from your merchants' website and do a little research online, and then write your original reviews with the gathered information.

4. Try to get organic traffic from Search Engines, and don't depend too much on PPC campaigns. The natural traffic from Search Engines will last a long time with very low cost. In order to get continuous traffic to your blogs/websites, you need to write unique articles about the products and update your blogs/websites regularly to rank high in Search Engines, and try to get as many back links from different websites as you can.