Product marketing question

Hi,
I have a question.
Suppose I sell car wax products. so to bring visitors from search engine
that are interested in car wax I am writing content for car wax.
e.g "how to shine your car with car wax" etc etc.

My strategy is:
A - Build 10-15 websites which will have "car wax" contents/ articles.
B - Drive traffic from content website to product website.

My questions is how can I take the visitors from my content website to product website.
e.g From review site to product selling site.
What are the methods and which one has less chance of loosing the visitor.
Method 1 - Add Affiliate Links from content website to product website.
Method 2 - use 301 redirect or some other kind of redirect from content to product website.

I don't like Method-1 since I fear I will loose some visitors as soon as they find out they are leaving the website?
But on Method-2 I think it may be not be done or google will ban me.

Should I just create one website with products embedded in articles? I can do that but in this case my website will not look professional ecommerce website as compared to my competitors.
Please suggest some ideas.