Best money making techniques for linking to merchant CATEGORY PAGES?

I’m loosing heart in deep affiliate linking to individual products, the retailers are constantly removing them, it’s tough to keep on top of it! I’m sending my hard earned visitors to dead pages. That equals lost sales and time! I’ve now come to the conclusion that if I link to the merchant’s CATEGORY pages instead they are more likely to not be removed.
I really don’t want a website where I have to CONSTANTLY monitor the pages, I want to set it up and walk away and leave on auto pilot.
Has anyone had success with linking to CATEGORY pages, what design or method works best for you?

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