Make Money Online

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We've all come across the online get rich scams which liter the search engines and pollute our email. Unfortunately, this spam has given a black eye to making money on through the internet. Though, don't get dismayed by all that email spam because legitimate ways to make money online still exist.

These ways are endless and there are more ways emerging. Someone could write an entire book on just how to make money online, but I’ll try to keep it as simple as possible. Who knew you could generate money from something you do all the time?

There are ways to make money with or without a website. For those thinking of having their own website, it's not as hard as some think to set up your own web site. But what if you want to take your site to go beyond one that just sits around on the Internet? You can. If you dealing in e-commerce you could go with the option of having an affiliate program.

What is an affiliate program? Affiliate programs provide links to your site to receive payments from advertising in exchange for promoting your Web site. Simply, merchants who deal in e-commerce pay an affiliate program to send them traffic and the merchant is paid part of the commission. The amount your paid is dependant on the amount of traffic your able to send over the affiliate site.

How does someone get paid? The following from howstuffworks.com explains methods of payment through affiliate programs:
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affiliateprograms.blogspot.com


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