Besides that it can prove that you're not fooling them blogs can also help you explain more about the product you are selling. You can make a review, and add more posts pertaining to that product.

About the commission, it is of course better if it is higher and 100% I think is good enough.

Unfortunately, due to my inability to build a basic web site at that time, I didn't renew my SBI site, subsequently let the domain lapse because I was too timid about building a web site back then. We're talking 4 years ago before there were free blogger or wordpress tutorials available in abundance on every video portal like youtube.

Currently, there are a number of free video tutorials for building Wordpress or Blogger blogs that allows anyone to learn and be up to speed in one or two months.

Until then, writing articles and submitting them to the top 3-5 article directories with affiliate links pointing to free web pages created on Squidoo or Weebly is a pretty good short term income generating plan.

Although now it's somewhat dated, another great affiliate resource I have used is the dayjobkiller, this is the best affiliate guide I've ever read (and I've read a lot).