To make money online you'll need the following 3 things:



1. A Domain name

2. A Web host

3. Website

Okay once you have a domain name and a web host then you can easily create a website. Without the latter you'll find it pretty hard to make any money at all, although there are alternative methods.

You'll want your website to stand out, to be attractive and to be original without these things it will be hard to find returning visitors.

So what's the best way to include these things into a website? You can build a website from scratch in HTML but that's not really a viable solution. I would recommend using WordPress on your website as the Content Management System. WordPress is unique, has a range of templates, you can get free plug ins to do things such as Search Engine Optimization and it has many more excellent features.

So there you have your own website setup, you just need to fill the site with excellent content as they say "Content is King". Once it is all setup, you want to monetize the website, so you can start making money. Below I will go through two of top ways you can monetize your websites traffic.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is just great, it allows you to place contextual adverts on your website. When someone clicks on these ads you get paid a small amount by Google. So if your website is getting thousands of visitors a week just by converting 5% of that to clicks you should be making a small fortune.

You can sign up for a free AdSense account from Google. They will checkout your site to see if it lives up to their standards, then they will either accept or decline your website. I haven't heard of anyone being declined so far. If they accept it they will give you a small piece of code which you can customise, add this to your website and then sit back watch the money come in.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is when you promote other peoples products and you get paid commissions. These commissions can be from 20% to 75% of the products value.

A great place to find affiliate program networks is Clickbank. They have over 10,000 products to choose from and a range of categories to suite every type of website. Clickbank will pay you via Check or Paypal twice a month, they are trustworthy and an honest company you can rely on them to deliver.

Go to Clickbank.com to sign up for a free publisher account. Once you have signed up, you can choose a product from their marketplace. They will generate a link for the product you choose, every time someone uses your link and buys a product you'll get paid great commissions.

If you use the above methods which I explained you should be getting a two check by the end of the month, one from Google and one from Clickbank.