1.      Google Adsense – this is the most common way to earn income online.  Write and publish valuable content, put Google advertisements on your website or blog.  When visitors come to the website in search of information, they click on ads to get more information.  Get paid for all these clicks.  There are several ways to earn money through Google:  Content, Search, Referrals, Video Links and more.  Go to any search engine and search for “Google Adsense”.  Registration is free. 

2.      Become a reseller – A reseller purchases hosting plans, domains, blogs, e-commerce products and other web products at a wholesale price (lower than normal retail prices) and resells these products to others at prices set by Him/Her.  This gives the reseller the flexibility of determining how much profit they would like to make.  Some of the best wholesale rates can be found at www.neptunewebservices.com.  Click on the link for Resellers.

3.      Affiliate programs –Include links from other websites that provide affiliate programs, drive traffic to these affiliate websites and earn money when someone buys their products.  Some of the most popular ones are Amazon.com and Ebay.com.  Go to www.amazon.com and www.ebay.com and at the bottom click on the link Join Associates or Affiliates (respectively) and follow instructions. 

4.      Become a published author – write and publish books on your topic of interest then sell them through print or electronically.  One such website where it is possible to publish and sell books is Lulu.  Go to www.lulu.com.  Also, at www.authorsden.com a community of authors and readers, authors can market their books, published and unpublished works to their intended audience.

5.      Sell Products online – Identify products that might have a potential market and do some research online and offline to find suppliers and to understand the business laws in your country of residence.  Purchase an e-commerce website and domain name that identifies your business.  At www.neptunewebservices.com there are ready to use templates (2 in 1 package of hosting and shopping cart software known as Quick Shopping Car) that can be customized to individual preferences and fits any level of web designing experience, advanced or beginner.  Your online store will be up and running in a matter of minutes.

6.      Advertisements – once your website/blog is well known and there is a lot of visitors/traffic companies may be willing to advertise directly through your site therefore generating the site more income.

7.      Other ways for bloggers to make money include BlogAds, Chitika’s eMiniMalls and CrispAds, Text Link Ads.  The list goes one with Adgenta, Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, Peak Click, DoubleClickTribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, Industry Brains, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, AVN, Pheedo, Adknowledge, YesAdvertising, RevenuePilotTextAds, SearchFeed, Target Point, Bidvertiser, Fastclick Value Click and OneMonkey.    

Tip:  Start with one income stream and upgrade to multiple income streams as it feels comfortable and as experience and time allow.