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Trick never works. I just use organical/natural way to promote my website and I get a lot of traffic and i.e completly relevant and targeted traffic with simple on-page and off page promotion/optimization.
Really liked your information. BTW, now these days Search engine don't prefer affiliate websites. This does not mean that you can not reach and boost up your website into search engine top rankings. What I think that affiliate marketing need more promotion and link building process than the normal merchant website.