I'm going to answer this truthfully bc I'm bored and I've moved on from the shady albeit insanely profitable products you will have to sell to make it in Affiliate advertising. A lot of people helped me on here so I will help you today just this one time to help the new aspiring little Jimmys on here. I will not spoon feed you the answers but I will give you everything you need to know right here right now... I hope you are ready because this will be very difficult to figure out and it will not be an easy course. You can make shallow 7 figures tho per year if you're a hard worker... but if it was easy everyone would do it. If you succeed you will basically work all day unless you outsource a lot of it. Almost everyone quits after they make a few million btw maybe that's more bc they are usually smart hard workers that just find more interesting opportunities. Ok let's proceed.
You will need accounts... lots of accounts. Facebook/Google should be the main focus. You will burn through these like tissue paper and you will do it with a smile on your face as that is part of the game. You will get banned there is no way around it and never will be, some accounts will last a while some won't. Get accounts by any means necessary.
You will need to be on a private affiliate network with good offers, I will not name these. You will likely NOT be able to get into one unless you know someone, that is just how the industry works. You will have to find a way. Do not waste a single day on any public network like clickbank as it will be a complete waste of your time. Just search for them and best as much as you can on here.
You will need safe pages(webpage, online store, etc.) to run traffic to as you need to make it appear you are a legit advertiser so you can get as much spend on google/fb before they catch you. This will entail building decent looking sites to send FB or Google traffic to. They can suck too it really doesn't matter a ton. Usually I would do around $25-100 per account to warm them but it's up to test how much is necessary to get the algorithms off your back.
You will then need a service to cloak the traffic. This is so you can show facebook/google bots and employees to the safe page and customers to the sales page. Obviously if fb or google sees the sales page they are going to ban you.
You will need great ads. This will be the core of the business really, you will want to make 10-100 per day and just test, test and test. There are ad spy tools that you can subscribe to in order to see what everyone else is running. I recommend these tools especially if you are starting out as you will not know what works and your guess will be wrong I can assure of that. Never copy other affiliates ads exactly. Just use them as a guideline to make something almost identical. FB/Google really like unique images/video ads, they absolutely bring out the ban hammer like there is no tomorrow if you use an ad that has been beat to death.
The offers you should be running on these networks should be US Diet, US Skin and US muscle and maybe some foreign crypto if you really want. Expand to foreign once you get comfortable. The reason why US is just so good is because they have the most cap on the best offers and saturation of an ad is almost impossible as there are just so many people willing to buy anything it is truly mind blowing. You will also get the most spend per account in the USA by far. Focus on those to start, although other countrys can have higher roi bc they have less cap and the offers vary so much but you will get banned faster so they kinda suck. Canada can be great.
I'm probably forgetting something but basically that is what you MUST do, There is no way around anything above I mentioned so don't even waste your time trying to "think different" or have a "better idea". I can't tell you how many people myself included I have seen shoot themsevles in the foot trying to be a unique snowflake. Just stick to what works and grind it as hard as you can.
I put your chances of success at less than 5%. If you are insanely strong mentally and luck stumble into the right people you will have a chance.
GOOD LUCK. I wonder if the affiliate marketers are going to be mad I laid this out on the Internet... they tend to be a greedy bunch of money hoarders that all think the sky is going to fall tomorrow... but it never does