Now I'm going to tell you something that's going to make you think I'm nuts. Don't sell anything and you can make money online! I want you to focus in a totally different direction. I want you to focus on what you know and talk to people about all the time. I'm going to show you how to make the conversation you always talk about start making you money on the Internet.

I don't know what you know so I'm just going to throw a few examples out there. Lets say you know everything there is about perfumes. You know what smells good, what smells bad, what's over priced, what's under priced, and what more people are allergic to or not. Maybe its wildlife, growing up in the 50s, raising birds, decorating kitchens, speaking more than one language, or millions of other things. The point I'm making here is people search for knowledge and you can give it to them and earn income.

How? Build an information web site. A web site about what you know exclusively. Let them know everything you know so they know you're honest and trustworthy. People search the Internet for information. Give people what they're searching for instead of trying to sell to them.

Now to make money online. When you visit web sites and see ads that say ads by Google or ads by Yahoo. Sites get paid for those ads. Companies want to run ads on sites that relate to their product. That targets the market that's looking for what they've got. The person advertising pays Google, Yahoo, or the company placing the ad on your site. Google or whoever it may be pays you a portion of that. That's the basic idea without getting in too deep. Everyone benefits.

Don't know any thing about building a web site. The biggest tip I can give you start out with is be very selective on the web hosting service you choose. You want a web hosting service that gives you a step-by-step guide to teach you how to build a successful traffic generating web site. Along with the guide you want:

?unlimited pages

?unlimited bandwidth

?and a web hosting service that allows you to run ads on your site. Some web hosting will not allow anything but their advertisements.

There are many other things to look for in a web hosting service that would benefit your web site. I listed the ones I consider to be the bare necessities for a new person to build a highly successful web site.

If you want to make money online in more ways than one you can become an affiliate. Basically this is letting your readers know about products you have used and determine them to be very good products. And there are others but then we move away from the advertising and letting people know your opinion on a product to selling. That's not the focus on this article.