Nice story - but it is not correct. I've had affiliate links for years AFF pays $55 per paid subscription meaning to get paid your links have to result in a user buying a premium membership. There is a different option that pays per signup including free signups pays about $1 per signup. The big thing with AFF is your traffic has to consistently result in at least one signup for every 20 impression and at least one paid membership for every 25 signups otherwise your account gets retro-actively converted to the percentage program which pays pretty much nothing - moral of the story....with and only with quality targeted traffic you can make a couple of bucks there.
I beg your pardon however, what I said was correct when I was doing this in my early days on the Internet. We bought tons of domains that dropped and still had hard links that resulted in alot of money.
I have no real idea how it works now HOWEVER....what I posted was correct....if those $$$ cames from actual signups, I am not aware and....I may have been mistaken about the income per which "could " have been $ 20 each, I honestly do not remember. I do remember it was a substantial income that was quite easy to bring in. I recal one domain that dropped and I used and it was about Real Estate sales in a GEO area and it made me more than $ 1,000. in a few months. Eventualy, the links got removed that drove the traffic.
As for the young lady I spoke of, yes she did make that much money monthly from this program and only this program.....all from a dairy farm and a 28.8 connection in Minn.
I had a broadband connection and would help her register dropping domains after doing market leaps to verify the links still on the Internet to those domains which always resulted in tons of traffic and yes, money.
Sorry for arguement sake but, this was what we did in the past and I have not for many years now and for some reason, I started getting their email newsletter again a few months ago.
Best wishes,
Enterpryzman