I think 'affiliate is great for bloggers' is a bit of a myth as well. I see it work for pro bloggers that have massive traffic and the time to invest in it. Fo

I think 'affiliate is great for bloggers' is a bit of a myth as well. I see it work for pro bloggers that have massive traffic and the time to invest in it. For small bloggers though, there is either a lot of overhead in managing affiliate network accounts and using the right offers or you trade that for smaller commissions with a service that abstracts that from you. I would love to be pointed to some counter examples of small bloggers for who the affiliate model is working well. For my previous (mostly dead now) startup Affclicks (an analytics tool for affiliate marketers) we considered those type of bloggers as possible niche to target but didn't actually find a lot of them. (granted we didn't push hard on the marketing side)