This is not an article about how to make money quickly, although it could happen, like if you already have a website with traffic. If that is the case, then read on because you can start making money within days.

The amount of money you can make online depends on how much time you are willing to invest. The more time and effort you put into the endeavor the more rewarding your returns will be. There is no substitute for a little hard work.

The first thing you need is a website or a blog to monetize?get something started as soon as you can. For one thing, everything on the internet seems to take time. It takes time to get spidered by the major search engines, then it takes more time to be listed. Time is also one of the factors in achieving good search engine rankings?the longer you have been around the less likely you are a spam type site.

Another equally important reason for getting started rapidly is once even a trickle of income begins coming in, it is a powerful motivating force to keep you working on your project. It's great to be able to say to yourself that now you only need to ?increase? your income instead of build it from scratch.

With many of the sites I've built, I can get a trickle of visitors from the search engines within a few weeks of going live, but generally for a lot of traffic (the free organic kind) it will take a year or more. This is especially true if you are looking for Google traffic. But there are things you can do to harness that trickle, and you can probably figure on a tiny monthly profit after only a few months time. And then just keep growing it.

One of the quickest ways to monetize your website or blog is to put 5 second audio ads on it. The audio ads play when a visitor lands on your page. The visitor does not need to click anything or take any action. When the ad plays you get paid. Since you get paid for virtually every visitor you can take advantage of very small amounts of traffic.

Since you can place the audio ads on blogs, and you can start a blog without investing any money at all, you can actually begin a money making enterprise for zero money if you already are connected to the internet. There are a number of places where you can sign up and have a blog for free. Then you sign up for the audio ads program which is also free, and you have started your future online empire without investing any money at all.

Another thing you can do is put Adsense ads on your website and or blog. There are other ad agencies too that compete with Adsense that you can use.

Whether you go with a blog, or a website, or both, you will need to obtain traffic, because if nobody goes to your website or blog then you won't make any money. You will need to find a topic for your website and or blog that will interest people, and that you either know enough about or can learn enough about to produce content that people are looking for.

There are other ways of making money online, for instance, you can become an affiliate and refer your visitors to other websites where they make a purchase and you get a commission. There are a huge number of affiliate programs online that you will need to sift through to find one that is right for you. You could sell products or services directly from your site too.

So in a few moments when you finish this article, go online and begin doing a little research. If nothing else start a blog. Starting a blog is very easy and free, you just put down a few paragraphs about what you are planning to do. Then as you learn and build your online business you can blog about it as you go. You will be teaching others as you learn and don't forget to put some ads on the blog so you can begin earning money as quickly as possible.

There is plenty of information online about building websites and writing blogs and such. The hard part is to get started. Make up you mind right now that you will start immediately and then go start a blog. You can have your first money making blog up in less than an hour from now. Just do it!