Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I want to know how to do this and speed up the process?

I’ve been doing affiliate marketing for a while. I picked the marketplace of my favorite, generate a hoplink, and I put it in as the destination url and bought traffic to that site and it brought 6000 visitors to it. So far, I’m making no money.
What went wrong? Is it that I’m missing something or don’t have a website or a blog? Or is it that ClickBank is a scam?

I am a freelance web designer/ search engine marketing strategist and am looking to build an ecommerce brand/storefront but do not have the time nor money to fully commit to stocking inventory. I was wondering if theres any affiliate/reseller programs that allow webmasters to sell their products for a cut.
What I am not looking for is affiliate linking systems. I want to sell their products not provide them with traffic.

Do articles need to rank high at Search Engines to have around 600 views or
submit at main articles directories also generate traffic?
Articles have been proven high producing top marketers. Every article has around 600 views. How to select keywords or simply use main keywords of a niche?

ok, lately ive ben thinking about setting up a website and add adsense on it. i know i have to have a niche, but its like all the things that i love are very competitive. i love, anything that has to do with the brain, like mental diseases anpsychologygy, i love talking about finding money for college (grants and scholarships). all these according to google keywords traffic are very competitive niches. what should i do. should i go for the competitive once that i love or choose somethingng i would like to know more about instead?

I would like to now what to do to find the most targeted traffic online for my affiliate products