The most important thing you need to make money online is getting targeted traffic to the website that you want to promote. Targeted traffic is just people who are interested in what your website is promoting. The best way I know of to get targeted traffic fast is google adwords. When you use google adwords you pay for every visitor that clicks on your ad and goes to your site. This is generally known as pay per click or ppc advertising. There are also many other ways for other people doing affiliate marketing to earn commissions but the fastest way to get started is using adwords. This can also be the easiest way to lose money fast if you don't know what your doing. The best resource to learn about using google to make money online in my opinion is Google Cash. Another great source of information is Adwords Miracle. Now I would like to share some tips for getting the most out of google adwords.

1. Start off keeping bids very low. Better to have fewer clicks and sales than to lose a lot of money.

2. Turn off content match. It doesn't convert to sales well. If you do decide to have content match on keep content bids very low (1/3 of search bids or less).

3. Keep daily budgets low. I recommend $5 a day at most starting a campaign to see if it will be profitable.

4. Instead of advertising on google everywhere think about targeting certain countries. It saved me a lot of money once I started targeting my ads to certain countries.

5. Break your ads up into small groups and make separate ads for simaler keywords.

6. Put [brackets] around your keywords. You will get fewer clicks but your keywords will get matched exactly by google. If you don't use brackets you ads could show up for keywords you might not want google to match on.

7. Test different ads. Google will give preference to ads that get clicked more often and the ads will get clicked more will cost less per click. Keep the ads that do well and the ones with low clickthrough rates should be deleted.

8. Your keywords should be well chosen and specific. General keywords like music will get you a lot of traffic but won't convert to sales as well as specific keywords.

9. You can have google place your keywords right in your ad titles for you automatically. It's called dynamic keyword insertion. Basically when you make your ad title you type in {keyword:default}. In place of default you put a title to use when your keywords are too long for google to put in. Dynamic keyword insertion is a powerful tool that will get more clickthroughs for your ads and higher conversions to sales. The only drawback of dynamic keyword insertion is that the price per click increases.

10. If your clickthrough rates on your ad campaigns aren't at least 1% I would recommend changing the ad or deleting certain keywords in the ad group with a low clickthrough rate. The higher your clickthrough rate the better your ad is performing and ad costs will be less.

11. The more you can think like people who are searching for the products you are promoting the better you will be able to make your ads and keywords.

12. The tricky part of adwords is that you want your ads to stand out and get people to click on them but at the same time there are also people you don't want clicking your ads. First thing you want to discourage are "freebie seekers". These people will click your ads thinking they will get something for free and will never buy anything from your ads. To discourage freebie seekers I recommend doing 2 things. First of all you the word free should not be put in an ad. Secondly you should put the price of the the product you are promoting in the ad, preferably right in the title. This will drive up your per click costs and give you less traffic but you will get the traffic that's more serious about buying the product your'e marketing.

13. Whenever possible ad campaign performance should be tracked to see how your ads and keywords are performing. Google provides a publisher id number that can be used with many affiliate programs. When you include your publisher id in the url that you send your traffic to you will get back inportant information such as which keywords are getting the sales, what your sales conversion ratio is and cost per sale. this ad tracking information can be used to increase profits on your campaigns by allowing you to delete keywords that don't make any sales.

14. I've found that advertising on google exclusively and not on the entire google network has brought the greatest return on my campaigns.

Advertising in google adwords can be a great way to make money online. If you own a website another way of making money with google is to put their ads on your site through the google adsense program.