I am a newbie who has been thinking of making buck online [for about 8 months] and am very confused and have some questions, thought I might ask the warriors for they
know alot about making a killing online.

Question# 1. For the affiliate website that I build must I have my own original content
is it possible and legal to copy from my merchant website? Probably called "clone" site.

Question#2. what is a hoplink?

Where is...

I was reading some blog article discussing all this about embedding cloaked links and affiliate links the other day and realized that most people just don't realize how simple this is. Also, the way shown here avoids what I think are messy looking shorturls, or crude methods using simplistic JavaScript to modify what the status bar says.

Maybe in the future I'll extend it to use a nice little web-interface where the actual and displayed URL's can be entered, but for now I show the...