Affiliate Marketing - Am I Doing It Right?

Hey Warriors,

I used to market online about 10 years ago and did pretty well. Things started to change and everything fell apart. I had to get a sales job back in the real world to support my family. That's what I've been doing for the past 8 years or so.

Working in the corporate world has crushed the joy out of me, and I've decided to start working online doing what I love again, no matter what it takes! Of course after 8 years now I'm a complete newbie again. So I took a crash course and have been working on it nights, weekends, and any time in between. I have about 40 hours a week I can devote to it.

This is what I have learned, and am now trying to implement. I may have some of this wrong so I'm asking (begging) for some constructive feedback.

• I started my affiliate site with Wordpress, I also bought the Thesis Theme addon. I did my research for an affiliate product. I know the one I chose is probably over saturated but I'm doing it as a test site, and I actually found a pretty decent key word for the product without a ton of competition. The site I built is I used All in One SEO pack and designed it to drive traffic to my affiliate. Any feedback on my site itself would be greatly appreciated.

• I learned that backlinking is the best way to increase my page ranking in Google, and drive traffic to my review site. The 4 most effective ways to backlink I learned are;

1. Find out who the top page rankers are in my niche, and grab their backlinks, then use scrapebox to make sure I only use the ones that are indexed. I also needed to buy a subscription to a proxie supplier so my ip doesn't get banned from Google. I then submit my url to all the same sites.

2. I write articles and submit them to places like EZA in order to achieve backlinks with more weight. After EZA approves my article, I then submit to many other article sites, but submit to EZA first because they won't approve my article if it's posted somewhere else.

I also read that I should post my new articles to my own site before EZA, but won't EZA decline my article because it's posted somewhere else? I created a couple articles, I submitted one to EZA, the other one I just started submitting to other sites like GoArticles.com, Sooper Articles, etc.

I got approved and published, but I found that the link back to my site was removed, or didn't work correctly, so I'm a little confused there.

3. The next method I learned was to use Comments for backlinks. I heard about a site called Actually Rank that will give you a list of high PR blog sites, and all you have to do is go down a list and post your comments. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm seriously considering it.

4. Next, I heard that there are Networks of blog sites that allow you to post to their whole network for a fee. I would like to hear more about these sites if anyone has some feedback.

5. Finally, I learned I need to boost all my best backlinks. I heard of 2 services that I can use to do this if I don't want to do it manually. They are, Backlink Booster, and 1 hour backlinks. I'm also considering these services as an option.

This is starting to cost me more and more with all these addon's and other services. I don't have a lot to spend and I have to be careful, but I also know sometimes you have to spend money to make money. If anyone could let me know if I'm on the right track here, and what I could do to get their faster I would be very grateful.

Once I can get $3000-$4000 per month coming in, I can quit my other job completely and start living again!

Thanks again for any help you might throw my way, and I wish all you continued success!