It has taken me a few years to learn affiliate marketing strategies that ultimately make money. For years, I was an affiliate marketer who would put up websites, and have no real clue about how to drive targeted traffic to them. Driving targeted traffic to your websites is the key to making money online. Affiliate marketers have to be patient, diligent, and determined to get ahead in online marketing. It is also important to be focused, and have the ability to stick with a project until it is completed. The following are three very important strategies that have helped me.