Basically, the art of money-making involves the act of provision, marketing and parting with goods or services, in exchange for value or cash. The advent of the internet and creation of websites has occasioned a new dimension as to how business is now been done in this electronic age. While the degree of ignorance with regards to how money can be earned through the internet is still widespread, many individuals and organizations on the other hand have come to embrace the internet, thereby giving their businesses a global reach. The vehicle through which money can be made by doing business through the internet is a website i.e. you create a website and monetize it for cash generation. Some of the means by which money can be made with a website are explained in the following paragraphs:

• Affiliate Program:

This is an online business whereby a marketer or advertiser signs up with an affiliate product merchant, so as to become a promoter of the merchant's product and earn commissions on sales of the product. The beauty of this kind of internet business is that you don't need to create or own a product; what is needed is to search for a market that is keenly in need of a particular product, and then find and register with an affiliate program or merchant that has the right product to satisfy the need of the market. Money can be made with this program by creating a website and posting useful content to it, so that visitors to the site can have a reason to refer back to it for further information, thereby boosting the chances of getting them to respond to your offer by following the link to your affiliate product website and eventually paying for the product.

• Google AdSense:

This is an internet business whereby a marketer or advertiser signs up for the program with Google- which in turn provides a code for the marketer to paste on his website, thereby activating placement of third party sponsored adverts on his website by Google. Money is earned with this program when a visitor to the website clicks on any of the sponsored adverts on the site. To make money with this program, there is need to constantly drive lots of traffic to your webpage through traffic techniques like posting of useful content to the page or site, and through writing and posting lots of articles to article directories, with link to your site included in the resource box of the article.

• Selling Your Own Product:

You can also sell your own product online by creating a website through which you can market it. The world is now a global village i.e. doing business on a global scale is now facilitated by the internet. If your business is currently offline, it means you're still struggling to grab your share of a highly restrictive and competitive local market; in order to survive this competition, there is need for local offline businesses to go online; this can be achieved through creating a website with information about your products and offers. After creating the website, the next thing should be to start promoting your product through generation of massive traffic to your webpage. A number of traffic techniques can be employed such as- blog comments, forum posts, social marketing and article marketing etc.