Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I want to create a quality content niche oriented website using wordtracker’s keyword tools, on a CMS platform and will monetize my website by displaying google ads and by affiliate marketing.
Please tell me what things i need to know to fulfill my job as i am all new to this field.
Also tell me what SEO practices i need do for my website.

I’ve just started to learn affiliate marketing and I have read that having a website is really important. I want to build one using wordpress as it seems to be the easiest to use and it is recommended. I’d like to post product reviews and relevant articles. Can you suggest me some sort of themes which are suitable for me.

Here’s the situation. I was at work, I work the sales floor at big 5 sporting goods. I asked a customer if he needs help with anything. We start talking about some stuff behind the gun counter which transitionsinto a casual conversation. After about 15 he asks to meet me for coffee the next day. Not sure what to think I agree mostly out of curiosity. I meet him for coffe, starts with light conversation. Then I ask him what he does. He was very vague, says he works some sort of affiliate marketing, and that he finds people to help, mentor, and build leaders out of. THen he proceeds to explain to me the state of the economy, goes on a rant about amazon and Google, talks about how to get rich in today’s world. Finally he kind of gets to the point and tells me I could get involved if I’m interested, keep in mind I still don’t understand what he’s asking me to get involved with. He gives me a business card that says nothing more than “portico” with his name and number on it, and a cd calf rich plan poor plan. Then he invited me to come to his house Wed and meet his “team” and that I should bring my wife. I tried getting him to be more specific but he still didn’t elaborate much. He was a nice guy and seemed very intelegent. I just don’t know what to think about it. Has anyone had this kind of experience before that could maybe clue me onto what’s going on?

They don’t unless there’s traffic right.
Wrong?
Affiliate marketing comes to mind, but that’s not really what this is. Do companies just pay you to put there ad up or do they actually pay you like per click or per sign up.
Can it be a combination of both?
Is there any program that will pay you if your website has 0 traffic?
If I’m applying for a program (i want them to rent my website for ads), what happens if I lie about how many unique visitors I recieve?
Can they check it? Speaking of which, how do I myself check how many visitors my page gets.
I hear of ppl saying “Google” pays them money for their website. How does that work.

Also another question, what exactly do you write in your blog? What other methods of affiliate marketing has other people used that generates pretty good traffic? Is blogging the ONLY good way?

Okay i spent a month at WA university with their 47$ membership and got side tracked on a wordpress tutorial. I have tried about 10 random free online tutorials before that. This was around august. I’m returning to the sport and would like to know where i can go to really get a good hold. I’m patient and willing to spend several months on this without getting profit if needed..However free tutorials are great too! If any of you wanna help me that’d be awesome as well!
I know i won’t be making 1000$ a week anytime soon likely, but 50$-100$ a week is my goal by the end of 6 months..