Anyone know about Google Cash and affiliate marketing?

[Rick Lee]

I was looking into wholesaler drop-shipping for my eBay store when I found some sites on affiliate marketing. I had never heard of this stuff, but sure enough, a ton of online merchants pay good commissions to anyone who can drive traffic to their site that leads to closed sales. There are even several places out there that manage all the tracking, sales and commission direct deposits. The guy who wrote Google Cash made it big by embedding his affiliate id links into ads he placed on Google and then, by exhaustive research, got cheap key words on Google Ads but was also able to get them onto the first search page. I've been reading about this for a few hours over the past week and I'm really interested in all this. It's not a get-rich-quick thing at all, but rather looks like a way to build a small, but growing side income. The only slight turn-off to all this is that there are just a ton of how-to e-books and websites out there, all claiming to be able to get you into the game. My question is why does anyone care about teaching others how to become competitors, if their gig is already that lucrative.