Making Money On The Internet

Many people have there mind set that the internet is a gold mine. Though this is quite true it does take a bit of knowledge and time before you can make your internet millions. There are various methods of how money can be made on the internet, some involve investing quite a bit of time and money, others involve getting lucky with a product or idea.

The key to making money on the internet is of course opening and running your own website. You can sell a product or just produce content and make money off of the ad revenue. I have experimented with both, and it's my opinion that selling a product is really where most the money is. But of course you need to have a product to sell, which means spending money not only creating the product but marketing it also. I did this for about 4 months, though my product was more of a virtual thing, I didn't have to have it 'mass produced'. The same effect can be used for ebooks, software, ect.

I was able to create a good sum of money before the market for said product ran totally dry. I closed the website down and took a break for several months. Then I started reading a little bit more about how to make money off ads. I signed up for my first Google AdSense account, and opened my first ad revenue generating website. It was actually a free flash arcade, I purchased a arcade script, installed it, added some games and I was up and going within a few hours time. After that it was all about word of mouth, letting people know about the arcade and getting users to come back again and again.

I am fairly active at a few forums so all I did was link to a few cool games for them to play and from there people started talking about the arcade all over. Of course there were other marketing strategies that I used but the main source of traffic had to come from those forum users. Those people would come and play my games, and then they would tell there friends. So on and so forth. I was making anywhere between $2-$3 a day about a month after I opened the arcade.

Another form of making money on the internet is one I just started getting into recently. Affiliate marketing. I haven't made any money yet as I just launched the website. Affiliate marketing is all based on the niche you choose, if the niche is already over marketed such as 'weight loss pills' or things such as that, chances are you wont do to well. But if your niche is something pretty low key, such as mine. 'broke xbox360 repair' you might do a bit better. Other than that I can't really give anymore input on affiliate marketing as I still have a lot more to learn about it, but I will be sure to keep you guys updated.

In short, before you jump into any kind of internet business make sure that you read up on what you are doing. Seek for others help if you don't quite understand something. And of course, don't give up. Everybody makes mistakes, but I have always said a mistake is something to learn from.