How much work does it take to make a lot of money with affiliate marketing?

Do a simple google search on affiliate marketing and you are bound to find a list that I can almost guarantee has affiliate marketing on it. People are making thousands of dollars a DAY doing this! Am I? No. Will I? Yes. The reason everyone isn't seeing success from this is because affiliate marketing is very easy. The trick is being consistent and experimenting. You have to remain consistent. Providing content for google to find is the only way to rank with google and get free traffic. Pick a topic that you know a lot about. Do some more research on it. Write down every question that you have ever had or that you may have about the subject. Once you get this down you want to begin writing blog posts answering these questions. When you answer the questions you have to use a keyword tool and find what keywords are the easiest to rank high with. Attack these keywords in different variations in your blog posts. This will help you rank high with Google. This is just a sampler. More post to come.