Direct Linking on Adwords to this Offer?

Thanks for this post. This is my first post on this forum. I am a newbie to affiliate marketing, and everything on the internet, really. My Ad Words account was suspended too, and for the same reason.

I want to do affiliate marketing (really, I just want to make money on the internet, but affiliate marketing seems easiest and fastest). So I signed up for a course at 97 bucks a month. It explained how to get a godaddy domain, forward it to your hoplink and go. I was all ready to pour buckets of cash into adwords and facebook marketing, and I got banned for forwarding my domain on the landing page. Then they said that the hoplink page was just farming for emails.

So, my newbie question is, how can you do affiliate marketing today under these circumstances? Just answering every fifth yahoo answers with your link and doing articles isn't going to be meaningful. Sending to somebody else's email list who has opted in to ads seems like a bit of a shot in the dark too.

It seems that the only thing you can do is create your own page that is real and then link to the affiliate product, but that has got to kill your conversion rate because the affiliate page where your hoplink leads is a professionally developed and tested page, and I'd only be able to slap some elementary page together with a couple crayons, construction paper and training wheels. Tough to justify a dollar per click on google to lead to that kind of page and hope they click on my affiliate link that leads to the product.

I made a lot of money in real estate before the crash changed the rules. I figure that the potential on the internet must be greater, but the way affiliates seem to be treated by search engines now is similar to when the banks pulled subprime financing for our buyers in real estate.

But in my experience, there are always people who adapt to adverse changes in market conditions and prosper. Sometimes, they even make things better because they cut out competition.

Any thoughts on where I should look to learn to do quality affiliate marketing in modern times, like post January 2011?

thanks