Is it any honest way to make money with affiliate marketing?

After unsuccessfully trying for the past three months to find a reliable, honest way, to make money on the net, I want to share my experience with you.
If you go on the blogoshpere you are going to find well-known professional bloggers making good money on the net. And normally you start thinking ‘if they can do it, I can too’.
All of them mention ‘affiliates’ as a source of making money, but none of them will give you the real, detailed information.
It’s all presented in a general manner as in ‘you can monetize your blog with affiliate programs; find the honest ones and go from there’. Duh!! This is exactly the point: the honest ones.
There are not too many, and if all these internet millionaires know who they are, won’t share the information. Why would they do it?
Go to any of the money- making – gurus and read it for yourself.
I did and it’s only a brush of information, just enough to keep you reading their blogs, visit their sites, get their newsletters. In other words, you are the contributor to their wealth.
Why would anybody making thousands of dollars a month tell you how to do it?
Not even that, you are going to realize that there is a close-circuit kind of society. The important information is passed from the gurus to their friends. You are not their friend, regardless how much brown nosing you are going to do.

Example of advices you are going to get:

1. Find an honest, reliable affiliate program.
As in ‘you find it, we are not going to tell you’. They make it sound so freaking easy. It’s not. What they don’t tell you is that there are only a few reliable affiliate programs and that you have to have TRAFFIC to your blog or website in order to be accepted by most of them. And when I say traffic, I mean thousands of hits per day in some cases. I had 12 on my best day L. Some affiliate programs are involved in MLM (multi level marketing) and you have to pay a certain amount of money to get accepted. Is it clear? You have to pay for the right to sell their products. Still interested? Well, imagine that they have the right to change the amount at any time; they can even cancel the program at any time. Just take the time and read the 20 pages disclaimers. How many people have the patience to do it? Not many.
2. Find your niche, open a blog, write good quality material and money will start coming.
Not true either. You are given advice like: ‘check the hot topics on the net (yahoo, msn, etc). Open a blog, write an article or two, and put your adsense code or whatever other pay- per- click program you are promoting, and the money will keep coming’. Here is the reality: if it’s a hot topic, it’s been milked already by the same guys who are having lots of traffic, meaning that your new little blog won’t get exposure on the net. It won’t be on the first five search pages on google or yahoo. Meaning that you are not going to have anybody reading your little post in your little blog. So who is going to click on your adsense?
Maybe it sounds like a rant, maybe it is.
But I am a normal baby boomer, with a full time job, learning how to navigate this new world of internet marketing.
And it’s not easy, you won’t get many free rides and you are going to get burned more often than not.
The truth is that you have to spend hours and hours looking for info, learning how to make your blog and most of all trying to make sense of all the new terms you have never heard before in your life.

I will try to do my best to be a good guide and share whatever experience I am going to gain down the road.

See you later!