The affiliate marketing hype is enticing, and it seems so quickly achievable. If you just take your affiliate link and get some people to click on it, some people will buy the product and you get paid. And with the millions of people out there, big money is right around the corner. Well, it might be around the corner, in the bank and in someone else’s account.

If you consider the estimate that over a million pages are added to the internet every day, it seems a daunting task to somehow get your affiliate page to the front of the line so that enough people see it. Certainly the potential exists for big profits, but the fact is the vast majority of affiliate marketers make very little, and now maybe you can begin to see why.