If you have been surfing around the web for a while you have probably heard about people making money or starting an extremely successful online business. Even though these stories cover the web and want you to pay a bunch of money so you can also make money they very rarely tell you the whole truth. Online business is anything, but easy and very rarely can you set up a residual income meaning you don’t need to constantly work for income. In most cases you will have to fight for every visitor and every dollar you get. This is the usual case so if you have been thinking you would like the chance to make money online then try building a simple small online business and seeing where it takes you. The first step will be of course setting up your online business, next will be learning internet marketing, and finally it will be necessary to learn how to make money from the traffic you generate.

Creating an online business is not nearly as complicated as many make it out to be. You can do this for free at one of the many resources out across the web such as wordpress.com or 000webhost.com. For those a little more serious about making a living online you may want to consider purchasing unlimited hosting though it is not mandatory. Once you have a platform that you can create the presence it is time to think of a niche which you thoroughly enjoy. A niche is what bloggers and webmasters call the topic of a website. A couple good examples of a niche include "internet marketing", "online business", or "fishing". Pick something that you truly love so when times are rough you don’t give up on the business.

If you create your online business go ahead and monetize it quickly with affiliate programs or PPC publishing. Some of the affiliate programs I found pay the highest commissions are get paid to take survey programs. The reason they are extremely easy to market is they are free for your audience and will actually help them begin to earn money. If you want to post some basic ads then go to Google adsense or chitika. Both will be free for you to join and will allow you to create simple ads to post on your website which will allow you to earn money every time a visitor clicks on an ad.

Saving the best for last it is time to talk about internet marketing and content creation. This is where millionaires are made those who create content that shoot across the web like a virus. You will need to learn some basic internet marketing such as SEO, link building, and branding which you can do in webmaster forums such as v7n.com/forums/ or on the major blogs out there. Really though your success will be seen in your ability to write content which touches people making them want to link to you and share your content across the web. Focus on creating content constantly becoming an expert content creator and try to fill the black holes within your niche that have not been covered. The best way to see if content has already been written is going to Google and searching for the title. If there are no posts or articles for the title then by all means write and publish the article.