I've hit a wall

I'm 26 Y.o. and I'm into seo from 3 years.
So far I've sticked with amazon affiliates. I always thought when you chose a method you have to stick with it and don't think about other money making methods or project.

But now I'm seriously thinking to give up on amazon affiliates.

The problem is that, over the last 3 years, I've ranked 3, almost 4 websites in the top 3 ranking. But I'm barely making 300$/month from amazon affiliates... which is shit considering the time I lost into these projects mainly because of google that doesn't help at all, it require you to spend 6-9 months of efforts, money and paranoia into a single website and when google finally rewards you, it's time for amazon to be a dick with that shitty 5%...

Last time I've watched the yearly report from amazon, this year I barely earned 1500$ while they have earned 25000$ already. This is so painful.

tl;dr: I want to unstick with amazon, so please suggest me a better way to earn money online... of course, I've tried to read other money method but everything seems to have huge negative points. Clickbanks has a lot of refunds, dropshipping require a lot of time to waste, cpa seems to be the easisest way to earn money but it doesn't give you guarantee of earning over the long run

how much traffic were your sites getting to make $300? and average product cost?

work on increasing traffic or covering more expensive products.

look for other e-commerce players that offer bigger commissions, display ads or try selling your own product.

there's no easy way that doesn't involve work, but since you've had some success you could build on it.

The SEO world is like the California gold rush back in the day.

While you do have some folk that labored day in and day out and ended up striking gold, most of the prospectors that moved out west simply failed.

The most reliable way of making money in the gold rush areas was providing a service. The people selling shovels and picks ultimately came out on top.

Are you going to continue digging for gold or start selling shovels? Maybe a little bit of both?

Don't give up on Amazon dear sir.

IMO the key to making money is trying as much different things as possible quickly and failing at the same time. When I am telling different things, I dont mean that you should do half assed job on each one. Try your best on each of them. If it doesn't work, change things and try again. Maybe drop Amazon affiliate and try something else. We will not tell you the best way to make money because simply there is none absolute best way. Different things work for different people. And I see that you have too much negativity, get rid of it. If you will think that "this doesn't work, this will not work, this is shit, this is time wasting" you will never find success.

Here is one of my favorite quotes, it applies to Internet marketing and overall to everything in life: