Are there any non spam affiliate websites and is anyone making real money?

Ive been pretty interested in affiliate marketing (and recently cpa networks) but it seems everywhere I go to learn more about it I end up on some spam type websites. It seems every site I go to people claim to make 5k/day and they all have these and have these terrible/annoying landing pages (which i read is actually a tactic of affiliate marketers?). Do anyone know of a good blog or resource to go to to learn more about affiliate marketing? Can anyone share their experience with affiliate marketing? And my biggest question is how do people get all their traffic? There are tons of companies that spend tons of money on online marketing to drive the traffic but yet almost all affiliate marketers claim to get a large amount of traffic easily.

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