Now I know everyone has seen all these ads about making money online. “How I made $5,000 this month from Google” and “make $75 an hour while you sleep”. Well, I just wanted to write a little something to let my readers know that it’s BS. In fact, that’s how their making their money by making you think you are going to and getting you to go to their web site a perhaps buy something from them.

There is money to be made on the internet. I’m not saying there is not at all. The net is growing every day and more and more people and companies are getting in to it. So in fact you can make a little, but nothing worth quitting your day job over.

Building a web site is fairly easy these days. There are all kinds of software’s that you can use and drag and drop the text and images you want in there. There are also good scripts that instantly build your sites for you. Then all you have to do is copy a little code from Google and paste it where you want the ad to be displayed.
This is the easy part. The hard part now is getting traffic to your site. After all, traffic is what makes you your money. People come to your site, click on the advertisement and you get paid. The thing is each click could only pay a couple cents so you will have to have thousands of visitors a day and get hundreds of clicks to make anything decent.

I have been in the web design business for 3 years now and I still only make a few hundred a month across 23 sites. Making money, good money, takes some time. It takes about 5 years to be good enough and for your web sites to be good enough and get the rankings up to get that kind of traffic.

This is in fact the hard part, getting to the top of a search page for your sites keyword, phrase or search term. The way you do this is by getting a lot of other sites to link to your site. This is also another task that is not easily accomplished. Doing this will take a lot of time and work. It can be done, however it will take a long time and a lot of work to get thousands of web sites to link to yours and get enough inbound links that will give you good search engine results placement.

How can you make money you ask?

All though it will not be a good enough source of income to quit your day job, it can be a decent extra income. If you like to write then you can make a little money writing for other websites and generate $20-$40 a day (sometimes). If you build a website and spend a little time building links to your site and get your rankings up a little bit (page rank) then you can make a little selling links. Selling links though is frowned upon by Google so if you get caught or reported for doing this your rankings will go down and so will your income.

So the bottom line is that it’s not an easy task. If you are seriously interested in making money on the net, I would not recommend buying anybodies Ebooks or methods. Just take a little time looking around webmaster web sites and forums and learn it for yourself. There is a forum webmasters use to ask questions and learn the things they don’t know. Check it out if you are interested in learning about making money on the net. The site is Digital Point forums. If you register there it may take a couple months to get approved but well worth the wait.

Feel free to submit your questions to me as well on my contact me form and I will try to answer your questions as soon as possible. I also have a couple articles I have written that will teach you how to build your first website and I will work on writing something in the future on using Google’s Adsense program to generate revenue from your site.

So in closing, take my advice, don’t buy these methods from people. Learn it yourself. Ask around on web design and webmaster forums, there are thousands of people that will help you out for free.