And 99% of those comments are going to get deleted too, lol. Again, forum owners and blog owners aren't dumb....well, most of them aren't anyway. It's getting harder these days to even find a forum that allows links in the sig.
I'm only replying to this because I don't want other newbies to IM to get discouraged from statements like these. I still consider myself new and somewhat unsuccessful at IM. I've tried a lot of different methods, Meathead's has been the most profitable for me. More importantly, learned a lot of the basics of building a wordpress site that it was my first.
This method isn't going to work in every niche. If you pick something like weight lost or dating, you're creating more work for yourself. Those niches have been spammed to death for years. You're going to have to at least put some thought into your target audience. I went with a small subniche in online gaming, which has it's own drawbacks but it worked for me for relatively little work. My site only had 4 product reviews, and I posted on about 10-15 forums. Some I got my links removed, some I was banned, and some stuck. You just have to adjust and keep trying. There's always other free sources of targeted traffic also that you can try as well.
That the niche I went with was based around a game release, it has died down quite a bit. I haven't promoted the site in at least 4 months. I just logged into Clickbank to give how much money I've made from meatheads method, and I have $43 in sales this week, which brings the total amount I've earned to $665. Not a huge sum of money or anything, but plenty to cover hosting and to play around with some other methods.
This method does work, but it's up to you to make it work for you. What meathead gives and explains is pretty much a basic outline of a review affiliate site, it's not new and is used by tons of people online to make money. All you need is the targeted traffic, which meathead gives you an example of how to get some at no cost but your time.