The two most profitable money making methods on the internet; are Google’s AdSense, and other conventional affiliate programs.
With the recession in full swing, and the possibilities of getting a new job any time in the near future being slim to none; many people are turning to the Internet with the hope of earning enough money to pay their bills, and take care of their families.
Short of starting a full fledged online business website, the fastest way to make decent money online is with conventional affiliate programs, and Google’s AdSense program.
The most popular online affiliate program in use today is Google AdSense. 
AdSense is a pay per click (PPC) program, that pays a specific amount of money to individuals when visitors click on the advertising links, that Google places on your website or blog.
Although the amount of money that you receive per click is relatively small, creating a large number of SEO keyword rich websites, with optimized web pages can add up to quite a large sum of money.
Google allows up to three blocks of AdSense advertisements per web page, and when you create ten to twenty web pages per niche website, you can hear the cash register ringing in the cash.
Of all the profitable money making methods on the Internet, Google AdSense is the most popular, hands down.
All you need to do is create a website or blog, targeted to a specific niche, and Google provides you with codes you need to insert the AdSense ads onto your website.
The advertisements are fully customizable to match your website, blend into your website, or contrast with your web pages on your site.
When you place Google’s AdSense code on your web pages, the advertising links that are generated, will be relevant to the content of your web pages.
This means that when visitors come to your site, they are more likely to click on the AdSense content advertising links, that Google places there.
All that is left for you to do, is to drive traffic to your AdSense monetized website through conventional internet marketing techniques.
Amazon also provides an affiliate program, that allows you to sell products on your website.
However, unlike Google’s AdSense, they offer a percentage of the actual sale as payment. 
Like Google, they also provide you with codes to place on your website or blog, for various types of advertising banners, search engines, etc.
Amazon does not limit you to only three advertising blocks per page; you can display as many items as you like, in many different formats.
eBay, also has an affiliate partners program that functions similar to Amazon’s program. 
The percentage per sales is generally lower.
If AdSense, Amazon, or eBay is not your cup of tea; the second of the two most profitable money making methods, is finding a profitable item to promote through an affiliate network, like Clickbank, PayDotCom, or others.
Affiliate networks, conveniently offer many products and services for you to promote by any method you desire.
Once you sign up, you receive a personal tracking identification that remains with you regardless of what product you decide to sell.
The affiliate network monitors all of your earned commissions in your personal account, and sends you your payment, once your minimum payment threshold is exceeded, by check, wire transfer, PayPal or other methods.
There are many benefits to affiliate networks for people who are interested in making money fast through affiliate marketing.
When you are promoting several different products, using different strategies; it’s extremely helpful to have them all managed from a central tracking location.
You can also join affiliate programs, that allow you to recruit junior affiliates, that promote products under you.
This allows you to earn a portion of the earnings generated by your junior affiliates, as well as a portion of the money their affiliates generate. This, in addition to what you earn through your own promoting methods, can quickly add up to a tidy income.
Regardless of which program you choose, make sure that the commission that is offered, is worth your time and efforts.
In general, look for products or services that offer high commissions. The exception, to the rule is for products that offer continuing monthly commissions, like membership websites generate.
Any of these profitable money making methods, can help you and your family out during these recessionary times, if you just spend some time educating yourself about them, and take the necessary action.
I’m often asked, what makes blogging so popular with people on the Internet?
It sometimes seems, like half of the information we receive in the search engine results, are located on blogs.
What makes blogging so popular, compared to conventional websites, ezines, forums or newsletters?
Well, here are some of the more obvious reasons that people go nuts over blogging.
Blogs are easy to set up, and easier to maintain.
Newcomers to the Internet can choose from free blog sites such as Blogger, or WordPress, to start
blogging within a matter of minutes.
Easy to follow instructions will get anyone up and running quickly; and with the tremendous amount of blogging software that is available on these free hosted sites, even a novice can create and publish a unique, professional looking blog.
Blogs are extremely interactive.
Once posted, your articles are immediately ready for the world to see.
Within reason, you can write about almost any article under the sun, so long as you retain a modicum of common sense, and decency.
Pedophilia, child porn, bestiality, hate speech, crude gross content, threats of violence, illegal activities, spam, uploading Malware or viruses, and other subjects like these are prohibited on most free hosted blog sites.
Another thing that makes blogging so popular is that the majority of blogs offer syndication services. 
This feature ensures that your blog is exposed to the maximum of viewers.
Because of the fact that blogs are constantly updated with fresh new content, the search engines love them.
A new blog will be indexed much faster than a new website, especially if you use the Blogger platform.
Search engine spiders will usually index a blogger blog overnight, or sooner, when you “ping” your blog on one of the many blog directory pinging sites.
By constantly updating your blog, you’ll ensure that your blog gets crawled by the search engine robots, and read by the public.
What makes blogging so popular with most newbies, is the cost.
Unless you host your own blog, there are no monthly server costs to worry about. Blogger and WordPress are both free to registered users.
If you do decide to host your blog on your own domain, and do your own hosting, the costs are minimal.
Blogs are fun to learn with, and to start your business with as you progress.
Your age is not a barrier to blogging.
As long as you are still able to express yourself and create fresh new content, you can provide the world with a great looking blog.
After creating and launching your new website; you will immediately realize that getting traffic to your new website, is the first essential step to start making sales.
Without high volumes of targeted traffic, your business ceases to exist, regardless of how fantastic your website creation is.
It’s like a tree falling in the woods. If no one is there to see it; does it exist?
Getting traffic to your new website follows the same analogy; your website doesn’t exist if there’s no one there to see it.
So, the challenge to your online business success is TRAFFIC.
The critical first steps to getting traffic to your new website are briefly described below and are in no particular order.
Having all of your relevant keywords on your website, is the first step in getting traffic to your new website.
Relevant keywords, and keyword phrases that are related to the topic of your web pages and posted articles, are important to the search engines for ranking purposes.
The more specific your keywords and keyword phrases are to the topics; the more accurate the search engine results will be, for that particular keyword.
This means that your website will rank higher in the search engine results, when the topic of your article, is specifically targeted in the search query.
If your website is about seahorses, and you are writing about pygmy seahorses; your keywords for that article should be PYGMY SEAHORSES, and should be prominently displayed in the SUBJECT, and several times in the CONTENT of your article.
This way when PYGMY SEAHORSES is searched for in a search engine, the spiders will already have your web page indexed under pygmy seahorses, and there will be a higher likelihood of your web page showing up in the results on the first page.
Although keywords will help getting traffic to your new website, you still need to provide them something for them so they spend time on your site, and eventually purchase some of the products or services that you have to offer.
This brings us to QUALITY CONTENT.
The phrase CONTENT IS KING, is something you may have heard about. If not, it’s time you did.
Publishing unique, high quality content on your website, is essential to draw the search engine robots to your website on a regular basis.
Search engines love new fresh content, and so do your visitors.
The more frequently you publish unique, fresh, high quality content on your website, the faster the search engine robots will index your new site.
Since your website is new, getting traffic to your new website can be made easier by submitting your website’s URL to the search engine directories.
This gives the search engine spiders a “heads up” on your new website, and accelerates the indexing process.
Exchanging some website links, with other high popularity rank (PR) websites, will also aid in getting traffic to your new website.
This takes some time and research on your part, but exchanging links is an effective way to drive traffic to your site, and improve your ranking.
By following these critical first steps, to getting traffic to your new website, you will benefit from an increase in traffic and sales to your online business.
