I'm sure many of us have been there, chasing almost every affiliate programme and waiting for the dollars to roll in whilst frantically maintaining every new piece of code or update. This can be very frustrating if you are a one man show and if some programmes don't pay out as much. I've stuck with ClickBank mainly because they are one of the best payouts, but would like to find more relevant products. I've also whittled down the many other programmes I had to focus on a choice few. What's been your experience? Payout amounts, timescales, maintenance etc.
You are right - if you have little traffic or if you are one man band who don't control thousands and thousands of visitors every day, you want to stick with good payout schemes. E.g. MoreNiche is one of these networks that pays solid % on high converting products, in some cases, up to 175$ per sale.