Originally Posted by Jaeger

Hi I just launched my first real mainstream site recently, it is a prepper site.

http://www.howtobeprepared.org

I had similar thoughts to yours, I decided to go down the affiliate path, although as the site is new, I have not gotten around to adding any actual ads. At the moment I am just trying to get traffic / links. I think the affiliate path is probably useful to get a feel for the particular market but take my advice with a grain of salt because i am new to mainstream.