Did you know that anyone can earn money online without having a website and without ever spending a dime? I know that this sounds too good to be true but a few people do just that. No, they haven't joined a get rich quick program that made them money overnight or anything like that. I know that many people would love to earn money online with no effort and no money invested on their part but that is not how things work out. That is why you see so many people, try, and fail to make money online at home.

The best and most simple way to earn some extra money from the internet is to join an online affiliate program. What an affiliate program really means is that a company online is selling their products and when you join them and sell their product for them, you earn a commission everytime someone buys their product through your link. The affiliate company gives you a link to promote as soon as you sign up with their affiliate program.

The nice thing about affiliate programs is that you don't need to have your own website to promote these products. You can just have a potential customer buy from your link and you get paid a commission for that. Every transaction, product shipment, and customer service support is done by the company itself and not you.

Not everyone, who wants to join an online affiliate program, will want to spend any upfront money for advertising. Some people don't even have a credit card to pay major search engines money for advertising and to get instant paid traffic. That is why I wrote this article for. To show you that you can make money online with affiliate programs without spending any money.

Let me show you, in 3 easy steps, how to go about if you want to earn money on the web without your own product and without any money for advertising.

1. Joining an affiliate program:

You can get started with any type of an affiliate program that is out there. There are work at home affiliate programs, vitamin affiliate programs, pet food affiliate programs, or what ever affiliate field you are thinking of going into.

If you want to get into a work at home or home business affiliate program, there is a good and solid affiliate directory called ClickBank. Clickbank has a huge directory of free to join work at home and home business affiliate programs that you can choose from.

2. Write an article:

I know of a lot of people who actually are making money online without spending a dime. Some are making a part-time income and some are earning huge amounts of money every month. OK so, after you find a niche affiliate program of your choice, start writing an article about that subject. It is not hard like you think it is. What you can do is to look at what other people have written and get some ideas as to how to go abouts and writing your own articles.

As long as your article is relevant and talks about that affiliate niche, you are really good to go. Once you are happy with it, make sure that all the spellings and grammar are correct. Once you are done with that, you are pretty much ready to.....

3. Publish and Submit the article

OK, so now you are ready to submit your article. Before you start submitting, make sure that you include a "resource box" at the very bottom of the article. This is where you will want to include your affiliate link to the affiliate product website.

The best thing to do is to go to any of the major search engines and do a search on "Submit my articles". Usually the sites that appear on the first and second pages are very good to use. You can then go to each individual site and submit your article there. The more sites you do this with, the better.

You are probably asking:

"How do I make money if I only post my article at just a few sites?"

Here's how you can make money by writing and submitting your article or articles:

People do many searches everyday for many keywords on the major search engines. Sometimes, your article can be seeing in the first page and hopefully the first site that comes up as #1. When the visitor clicks on that first link and sees your article there, they will probably read it. If they like what you have written, they will visit your "resource box" and probably buy what you are offering there. As soon as you publish a few articles, more and more webmasters will pick them up and publish them on their site. This has the potential to give you more visits to your articles.

And that is how anyone can earn money online without a website and without having to spend a dime on advertising. It is really that simple.