When I created a blog on how to make money online, little did I know that I would be bombarded with emails. Apart from the hundreds of responses that I receive in my blogs, I also receive hundreds of emails everyday. Each one of these mails has the same old question. Which is the best money maker on the internet now?

Well, it is a question which I can answer easily now. But it took me about 6 years to figure it out. Money making on the internet is like finding your way through a maze. If you hit the right track, you will be making money in minutes.

On the other hand, if you are unable to find the way, you will keep going round and round in circles.

Blogs and Money

I started blogging purely out of an instinct. It was much later that the monetary part came into it. Looking at the traffic and the response that I received to my blog everyday, I decided to cash in on it and make some money.

Yes, blogging is one of the best ways to make money online. But there are certain rules that need to be followed. There is immense competition around and you need to ensure that you have a steady flow of traffic to your blog.

To make this possible, you need to write really good content. Yes, contrary to what people say, you will only get traffic if you have genuinely informative stuff on your blog. But where does the money come from?

Google Ad sense

Google has been the backbone of web 2.0 in more ways than one. Be it their LSI based search or their ad sense network which is a tremendous income generating machine.

When I used ad sense first on my blogs, I wasn't impressed. It was after all, plain old PPC advertising. But soon I realized that while it looked like PPC, ad sense was different. It is far more sophisticated and effective.