With the global recession the way it is at the present, and employment hard to find we all have to start looking at other areas with regards to finding work or earning money. Finding a job and making money are two of the same, but they are both totally different. I will explain exactly what I mean by that statement as it sounds a little puzzling. Finding a job will make you money in terms of providing a wage but you don’t have to have a job to make cash.

You can make on money on the Internet with out even having a full time job, there are a wide range of alternative ways of earning cash from home just with the use of a computer and a small amount of know how. By no means is this a get rich quick plan I would like to add and it is not guaranteed to make you thousands monthly, even though it might. The basic theory is to include advertising on your own Internet page and when individuals click through on those advertisements you make some revenue. The more website visitors that your web-page gets the more clicks you get and the more dollars you make. There are a many different ads you can add on your Internet site but by far most popular are Google AdSense ads. They are really simple to add to your page, just a straightforward code that shows ads that are relevant to your page. When a customer clicks on one of these ads you will make a small amount of money, the amount depends on the type of ad that is shown.

I first got into making a living online when the recession hit my business hard, there were not many jobs in Liverpool at the time and earning a living was hard work. I had a lot of spare time on my hands, I started to look at different forms of making a living and learned about Google AdSense on one of the sites I was looking at. So I decided to give it a go, it was pretty hard work at first trying to get my head around all the SEO stuff but once I mastered it was plain sailing from there on.

You will need to start, a simple website; you can do this for free with one of the many online site builders. Create a site around a topic or theme that you have knowledge of, add the AdSense ads and that's the easy bit complete, the next part is not that painless and that’s the search engine optimisation. Search engine optimisation is a involved and in depth subject and there is way too much to discuss in just one article, but to put you on the right track you need to start establishing links back to your Internet page. By far the best way of link building is by article submissions just Google the subject and a ton of stuff will come up. I make a good second income to supplement my regular job using this very simple system and if you have the time and patience then I would definitely give it a try.