These methods vary and budget requirements can be little or nothing. There is no order here in effectiveness or profitability which will depend on your promotion. You will need to check with your city, county, state, and federal government bodies on licensing requirements for what you are interested in. It will vary widely for where you live and what you are doing.

Starting off with information products, such as E-books that can be downloaded into a customer's computer without printing expense. There is also E-Zines and newsletters that can be written and e-mailed to subscribers. You can give these items away for free and allow others to give them away which will give you multiplied advertising space to sell and direct links to your site(s). Article writing on various subjects is also gaining momentum, giving you links to your site(s).

Google Adsense program is a powerful program that works by giving you a piece of code to paste into your web page. Visitors click on small classified ads that come up through this code onto your web page. The small classified ads have information that is similar to the content that is on your page. When a visitor sees a classified ad that interests them they can click on it and they will go to that site. You then are paid for every click that a visitor clicks on. Google Adwords is the reverse of this where your classified ad(s) come up on other people's websites. The visitor sees your ad and they click to your site and you pay for each visitor's clicks.

Search engine pay per click works by purchasing keywords that people may use in a search. Keywords are bid like an auction with the highest bidder at the top of the search list, then the second highest bidder goes second, etc. Yahoo and Google are the main forces in the Market. Yahoo's program is called Yahoo Search Marketing and Google's is called Google Adwords which is part of the same program as mentioned above. A keyword can be a multi-word phrase such as “auto restoration” which is bid as one word or another example “classic car restoration”. You can bid on more than one keyword to bring people to your website. The keyword comes with a short description of what you have to offer like a classified ad which will show in the search results or other sites.

People are making full time incomes on Ebay. There are some great techniques and strategies for selling on Ebay. There are various ways to write the auction listings and to deliver the product. They also have stores available that can be purchased on a monthly basis saving money on listing fees. Items can be seen in your store from your regular auction listing, they will come up to be viewed by the visitor with a direct link to these products taking them to your store. Ebay is a skill that must be learned by reading and experience to take it to the top levels.

Blogs are also great and are very rewarding for people. A blog is short for weblog and is basically an online journal. It can be about personal items, points of view, opinions, thoughts, comments, and ideas. These can also be more of a newsletter style used for business. These blogs can come up on searches and inform people of products and services.

Writing software is an excellent or even some say one of the best ways to make money on the web. Many are giving away free cut down versions or a free trial and selling the full version direct from their sites. Overhead is very small and product delivery can have little or no costs. A small program or computer script that solves a common problem can spread all across the web in a short time.

Setting up internet forums are also successful by building interest and popularity in a website. People all across the web can have discussions about your site's specialty.

Website design is a highly paid profession. You can sell templates of a basic site across the web or give the basic template away to interest new customers. Offering the new customers a customized site if they want one for a fee.

Search engine optimizing (SEO) is a powerful profession, helping businesses get high rankings in the search engines by building the websites with links and content.

These are some great ways people are making it on the web. Hopefully this will give you some new ideas to check into.