Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I am considering having some ‘Affiliate’ and ‘PPC’
(‘Payment Per Click’) “passive income”.
Rather than American companies, which are many but I find too optimistic, are there any such British or European businesses? And who please?
No offence meant to my great American cousins, but I just cannot do business with over optimistic people. I prefer a dose of realism. And right now, we in Europe are facing an economic meltdown.
Please *no* spam!
Thanks to {any} answerers. If you don’t receive a “thank you”, it will be because my online connection has failed again.
Appreciation in advance….

I have read all about how Affiliate Marketing can let me earn a passive income and earn 5 to 6 figures a month. Tried a lot of affiliate programs online but very little of
them used to help. Please give an advice of some good solution/method on the internet
for me to succeed in Affiliate Marketing and financial freedom. Thank you.

How can I make a few hundred to a thousand dollars a month?
Niche website with affiliate products
Website flipping
Etc.
I would prefer passive income. Which online company should I start?

I’m curious, is there anyone out there making decent money on affiliate marketing? I know the basics as to what it is, what keywords are, hoplinks from clickbank, and adwords but will I really be able to make an income? Is affiliate marketing just something I spend my days working out some sort of miniscule passive income or is it really legit enough to spend a lot of time?
Who here can speak from personal experience about affiliate marketing?

I am average at everything with no particular interest. How the heck do I find a “niche” to write about.
I’ve seriously planned and SEOed the crap out of articles in well researched micro-niches, but they all failed because I was only moderately interested in the topic. I also hate the process of keeping a balance between keyword bull-crap and actual human writing. I want to write, not market. *barfs*
For example. today my interests are government conspiracies… but tomorrow it could be baking pies, and the next day it could be cats. MY interests go in long cycles. I can never be consistent.
Can I break all rules and just write? Will I have a chance of making any passive income from ads this way?

I see a lot of advertisements for the Diablo 2 item vending sites that sell runes, characters, cd-keys and such. How do these sites operate and are the affiliated with Blizzard in any way? I heard blizzard allows these sites to operate and conduct their business on battle.net servers as a way of passive income. But, what I want to know is how they actually operate. Where they get their items from, the characters and the cd-keys. Are they legit? I’d like some actual info not some retard going “I THINK DEY IS GEWD. THATS A FUN GAME.”