New to SEO and Affiliate Marketing and I got some questions

Hello everyone, I am new to this and I see a lot of people (outside BlackHatWorld community) talking about free traffic. I didn't had money to start, the only thing I could buy was hosting and a domain name(which i think i got it wrong). And I got SemRush 1 month free, a very powerful tool that i don't know how to use).
My plan was this: Search keywords that have between 2000-10000 searches a month without ads on google and write articles to get on the first page, from there send the people to amazon.
I made an article using Writesonic, got some unique pictures, steal a youtube video and my article was ready ) as i said I am new to this.
I made sure i got A 90+ score on All in One SEO plugin as i use wordpress, and this is where a got stuck...i don't know what to do after. So my questions are:
1. Is there any way I can drive free quality traffic to the websites? If yes How?
2. Do you think I will be able to rank on first pages? If yes How?
3. Is anything i made until now makes sense or should I study somewhere else? TBH I am tired of youtube videos....
If the link to the website will be necessary I will post it with approval ( I am not here to post backlinks )
Sorry for my bad english I am tired as no tomorrow...

Well, first off, if it was easy to generate free traffic, everyone would be doing it. So, roll up your sleeves, SEO has become extremely demanding and even somewhat frustrating of late.

1. Try to write your content manually
2. Avoid using other people's image or videos without crediting them
3. Target low competition keywords
4. Invest in a couple of good quality backlinks (gradually, over time)
5. Be patient, new websites are normally put in sandbox mode by Google for 6 to 12 months

All the best.

Next step is to learn about building backlinks. You’re going to need those.

Konyagi said:

Well, first off, if it was easy to generate free traffic, everyone would be doing it. So, roll up your sleeves, SEO has become extremely demanding and even somewhat frustrating of late.

1. Try to write your content manually
2. Avoid using other people's image or videos without crediting them
3. Target low competition keywords
4. Invest in a couple of good quality backlinks (gradually, over time)
5. Be patient, new websites are normally put in sandbox mode by Google for 6 to 12 months

All the best.

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What do you mean by sandbox mode?

oliviu28 said:

What do you mean by sandbox mode?

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It's basically like a shadow-ban phase during which no matter how hard you work, your site won't show much progress on the SERPs.

You need to Google around to learn some of this SEO lingo, though.