after being shunned for just linking to my blog, here's the list of articles I compiled. they're all solid reads...
Complete N00bies
Affiliate Marketing - Wikipedia
What Would You Do If You Were First Starting Out?
8 Beginner Questions and Answers
General Guides
Make Money in 24 Hours
Launching a Campaign From 0 to Profitibility
Launching a Campaign From 0 to Profitibility - Part II
Make Money with PPC Advertising
Choosing a Niche
How & What To Promote
Using Brute Force to Find Profits
Picking a Niche is Everything in Affiliate Marketing
Strategy
Landing Page or Redirect?
Picking a Domain Name
9 Tips For Choosing A Great Domain Name
Tips for Selection a Domain Name
Choosing a Good Domain Name
Landing Pages
Creating an Adwords-Ready Landing Page
Landing Page Quality Score
Cloaking Affiliate Links
Keyword Research
Keyword Insights
Keyword Research Secrets (I'm not the Paul in the post, lol)
Tracking
PHP Keyword Tracking How-To
How Granular Should You Track?
Writing Ads
18 Tips For Writing Better Pay-Per Click Ads
Changing One Word in an Ad
Creating PPC Ads That Stand Out From the Crowd
Click-Through Rate (CTR)
Synthetic Ways to Juice CTR
Most Important Factors for CTR
Conversion Rates
White Websites Convert
PPC Search Advertising
The Kama Sutra of Search
How Super Affiliate Set Their Bids
Content Networks
Google Content - Goldmine or Minefield?
Tricks
Increase Landing Page Relevance with Domain Aliasing
Advanced Tactics
Why White Label?
Experiments
$10k PPC Experiment
$10k PPC Experiment Part II
Facebook Experiment
Pay Per Click Network Challenge
Click Bank Experiment (this is from a web archive, the site isn't up anymore. just scroll to the middle of the page and you can find links to parts 1-8)
Information-Packed Forum Threads
UKoffer Question Thread
Super Affiliate Mindsets
The Shord End of the Long Tail
Complete N00bies
Affiliate Marketing - Wikipedia
What Would You Do If You Were First Starting Out?
8 Beginner Questions and Answers
General Guides
Make Money in 24 Hours
Launching a Campaign From 0 to Profitibility
Launching a Campaign From 0 to Profitibility - Part II
Make Money with PPC Advertising
Choosing a Niche
How & What To Promote
Using Brute Force to Find Profits
Picking a Niche is Everything in Affiliate Marketing
Strategy
Landing Page or Redirect?
Picking a Domain Name
9 Tips For Choosing A Great Domain Name
Tips for Selection a Domain Name
Choosing a Good Domain Name
Landing Pages
Creating an Adwords-Ready Landing Page
Landing Page Quality Score
Cloaking Affiliate Links
Keyword Research
Keyword Insights
Keyword Research Secrets (I'm not the Paul in the post, lol)
Tracking
PHP Keyword Tracking How-To
How Granular Should You Track?
Writing Ads
18 Tips For Writing Better Pay-Per Click Ads
Changing One Word in an Ad
Creating PPC Ads That Stand Out From the Crowd
Click-Through Rate (CTR)
Synthetic Ways to Juice CTR
Most Important Factors for CTR
Conversion Rates
White Websites Convert
PPC Search Advertising
The Kama Sutra of Search
How Super Affiliate Set Their Bids
Content Networks
Google Content - Goldmine or Minefield?
Tricks
Increase Landing Page Relevance with Domain Aliasing
Advanced Tactics
Why White Label?
Experiments
$10k PPC Experiment
$10k PPC Experiment Part II
Facebook Experiment
Pay Per Click Network Challenge
Click Bank Experiment (this is from a web archive, the site isn't up anymore. just scroll to the middle of the page and you can find links to parts 1-8)
Information-Packed Forum Threads
UKoffer Question Thread
Super Affiliate Mindsets
The Shord End of the Long Tail