How to Make Money Online

By evelopez
eHow Community Member
These days, everyone wants to be a "webpreneur." Luckily, making money online doesn't take years of education or advanced degrees. Anyone who is literate and who has access to the internet can make money online. Some of these methods take a bit of trial and error, but there is really no way to fail if you keep at it and don't give up.
1. Step 1
Make money with your own website. There are three main ways to make money from a website. 1. Sell advertising (like Google AdSense). 2. Become an affiliate, sell merchandise, and take a percentage of the profit (like Amazon books or other products). 3. Sell your own product (like an ebook, or whatever your invention is). For each of these ways to earn money from your website, you will need to learn SEO, which is a whale of an issue but worth your time. Your website will go nowhere if it is not ranked highly by Google.
2. Step 2
Make money writing for the web. There are dozens of websites that will pay you upfront and/or through residual income. Most content sites earn their money by advertising. You can have instant SEO for your articles and earn money through eHow.com, Suite101.com, Bukisa.com, HubPages.com, Helium.com, Squidoo.com and others. If you plan to earn money through writing online, make sure you know the basics of Google keyword analysis. It's possible to make hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month by writing for revenue-sharing websites.
3. Step 3
Create a blog and earn your money through one of the ways outlined in Step 1. Blogging is profitable for few. The main thing you want to do before you start your blog is 1. research a niche and 2. promote the heck out of it once you do. You need to write to a specific audience and market to them in a way that doesn't seem like marketing. Listen to the pros at blogs like Problogger.com and Copyblogger.com.
Resources
•How to Find Work at Home as a Freelance Writer
•How to Be a Succesful Blogger