[Linda Buquet]

chelle are you getting enough traffic and clicks to be able to judge how well things are working? Do you realize it can take newbies 500 clicks to make a sale. After you're a pro and if you pick a good merchant conversions should be more like 1 sale out of every 100 - 200 clicks.

I wanted to ask that Q 1st because some affiliates get frustrated because it's been 6 months with only 1 sale but the real problem is not enough traffic because they've only gotten 50 clicks in 6 months.

If you are getting thousands of visitors and clicks and still only 1 sale, it can be a variety of factors. The merchant may not have good conversions or their tracking could be broken or they could have commission leaks. Or it could be your traffic isn't targeted enough or you are getting targeted KW traffic but the KW you are using are attracting more people in the lookie loo or info gathering stage, as opposed to the buying stage. Too many possible variables.

I'm sort of shooting in the dark and pointing out some potential problems…
Just guessing things that could be an issue.

Best thing is after you have 10 posts, post a site review so we can see the site you are talking about and the niche. Tell us how many visitors, impressions, clicks, sales and then we may have enough info to allow us to give you more specific info.