Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I heard about it about 2 years ago and have been working on it off and on and have not made a dime.

I need a link to a site that will have this answer, This is a school project. The quicker the answers the better!

The Sims 3 site is telling me my login information is not affiliated with an Origin account. I already have an Origin account, but it is under my new email address, not my old one, like the Sims. What do I do to make the two recognise each other?

I just launched a classifieds site in a particular niche market and have done a small email campaign with reasonable success, but how can I get more traffic from the web? I don’t think I want to hire anybody-I’m looking for tips that I can do myself.

so clickbank lets me promote a product by giving me a gigantic URL. I need people to go through that huge link. It looks ugly so i bought a domain from host gator which is shorter, and much more attractive. Can I make that gigantic affiliate link, into the domain i purchased? So if people click the more attractive domain, it actually takes them to my unique but long and ugly affiliate link? And please don’t answer if you don’t know what I’m asking. Don’t tell me to hide it under a hyperlink either because thats not what I’m trying to accomplish.

I’ve done about an hour of google searching with no success…
It’s a top down space shooting game in flash online, it isn’t affiliated with any major game site. You start out as a single platform with a blinking heart in it, you kill other enemies and their undamaged parts float off and you can attach their parts to your unit with your mouse.
As enemies get harder and their color scheme shifts from green to yellow to red to blue to white.
The graphics are very basic/stylized with simple geometric shapes.
The plot is if you die you explode, killing everything in the sector.