Using the internet is making is possible for anyone to earn residual income online.

1. Diversify your internet business to include pay per lead, pay per sale, and pay per click programs with affiliate and network marketing. Think or your business as a store. The more products you have to offer the more sales you make.

2. Think backlinks. Getting your website address on as many other people's websites is a long term strategy for earning residual income.

3. You need visitors and repeat visitors. This is where social marketing and Web 2.0 strategies really pay off. When you have a never ending supply of traffic to your website or blog your income will always be there.

Here are 6 ways you can earn residual income online.

A. Pay per lead. There are companies that will pay you to create leads for their advertisers. This can be as simple as putting a short sign up form on every web page you have.

A. Pay per sale. Affiliate marketing is good for this because the products you sell are already created for you. Resale products are great pay per sale products because you earn 100% of every sale you make.

C. Pay per click. Google Adsense is the fastest way to get paid by the click. It is easy to set up and you earn money everyday as long as you have traffic to your website.

D. Start a business providing a service. Think of things you could offer to make life easier for your fellow internet marketers.

E. Network Marketing- Earning money on your own efforts as well as the efforts of others is the key to a good network marketing business. The internet allows you to build a world wide business in a short time. Internet based products are great for network marketing online.

F. Affiliate Marketing- Selling other people's stuff can be a residual income stream when you have hundreds of pages online with your affiliate links on them. The more web pages and blog posts with affiliate links the better. Selling eBooks from ClickBank is an easy way for you to get started.

Regardless of your experience level today you can earn residual income in the future if you will just work hard and work mar. It all comes down to effectively using social marketing, forum marketing, article marketing, and others to get traffic to your websites and blogs.