Affiliate Website Case Studies – Top Earning Sites

I will admit it, I am clueless when it comes to affiliate marketing. I need to see the light and it just dawned on me that I need to see some successful websites so I can see what they are doing and maybe I can be inspired.
Can we get a discussion going where people list successful Affiliate websites?
What software packages are they running? How are they displaying the offer? How do they get traffic? I guess this is the whole nut, but I’m just clueless how this is different from straight product marketing and/or community building.

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