[burton4550]

So im new to affiliate marketing and was wondering if someone could just make sure im on the right track here to success, cuz ive had quite a bit of failure so far. Im using clickbank right now to promote there products. Is domain forwarding directly to the merchants sales page a bad idea ? Ive been doing this using forums, yahoo answers, writing articles,twitter,myspace and facebook and still have yet to get any sales. Am I going at this the wrong way?

The other thing I seem to be reading is actually to create a landing page or review site containing valuable information on whatever niche or market the customer is interested in. Once you create that, then put in a opt in list to create a list to continue trying to sell if they don't buy right away. After creating this should I be using the same traffic techiques above to generate leads to turn to conversions ? Which way would you suggest is the faster route to go to make the cash flow?