I am thinking of setting up a poker/casino affiliate site, has anyone got an experience of this? I am an affiliate virgin, so any pointers would be great.

Yeah, i hear ya, my issue is, i get bombarded by "marketers" telling me how great affiliates is, and the huge amounts of money people are earning, etc etc. I would be happy with a couple of hundred a month, but i have no way of knowing if this is realistic or not.

I'm looking at building my own sites to make money for me. I'm thinking another six months to a year may give me enough time to have it bring in enough to pay my bills but can never be sure until these sites are up and running how much exactly you can get from them. I know someone that was earning around £200 - £300 a month from an affiliate site and he had only been doing it about 6 months and wasn't a "proper" SEOer.

Would you guys be up for working on money making sites together? Would obviously be able to combine time and expertise that way.

I used to do some affiliate marketing and by far the most important element of any Aff campaign is to have a product that sells, sounds obvious but believe me it's the hardest thing to find.

It's also a highly competitive arena and the boys that make the most from doing it, the 'super affiliates', put in some serious time creating campaigns before launching.  I only used to use PPC to drive traffic directly to the seller's site and in the end I wasn't making money anymore so I binned it.

It's a great feeling to be making money on Click bank while you sleep, I used to love waking up and checking to see how much I made overnight.

Got no time at the moment I'm afraid! Struggling to even maintain a social life with freelancing and the 9/5... But it will only be till the end of the year, then I'll be fully freelance... Aaah, bliss!

Depends on all the variables, some people just set-up a site for amazon ads, do little work on it and it rolls in £50 a month, so they setup 50 more? Or some people put all their effort into one site and it makes them millions.

I wanted to finish it off on my own but I think I'll have to admit defeat so if anyone wants to join forces with me on this site: http://www.bingomatchup.com - I've done most of the legwork, just needs a few more template pages sorting out, some content and some links. Let me know if you're interested. As I said, it's built with WP Review Engine and it's a pretty good CMS setup to work with.