Once you have a website, how do you make money from it? There are two basic ways that sites make money:

1. Selling products or services
2. Earning income from advertising on your website

Of course one way to make money from a web site is to simply sell your products or services. The second way, making money from advertising, is what this article is about.

If you look at many websites, you will probably notice that there are banner advertisements displayed on most pages. If you are new to the web, you may think that you must either be a company or that your site must be famous before you can get advertisers.

In reality, anyone with a website can get advertisers. This is true even if you are just starting out and your site is relatively unknown.

The way to do this is to become an "affiliate" of various sites, either directly, or through an affiliate network. An affiliate network is simply a place where you can select from a variety of advertisers. Some of the more popular are Commission Junction, Kolimbo, LinkShare and Google AdSense.

When people visit your website and click on these links and banners, or purchase a product or service after clicking on the link, then you get paid. If you are really good at this you can earn thousands of dollars a month.

Search engines such as Google and Yahoo search for content. If you have content (words, reviews, articles, etc.) on your site that people search for, then Google and Yahoo may find you.

There are two ways to get traffic to your site. The first is to generate content so search engines will find you. The second way is to buy Pay-per-Click (PPC) advertising, but this can be expensive if you don't know what you are doing.

Lots of people pay for programs that show them how to do this or that guarantee traffic to your site. You have to be very careful as there are a lot of crappy programs out there.

Here are my recommendations for programs that I have personally used and work. (I make thousands of dollars a month from affiliate marketing).

All of the products I recommend below come with a money-back guarantee if you are not satisfied.

1. One of the best --and easiest to use and follow program is called Build A Niche Store (BANS), that helps you set up a niche store to make money from eBay's Affiliate Program.

2. Once you have a web site you need to get traffic to it. The absolute best book on this subject is The VEO Report. The author shows you in simple clear steps how to submit your site to search engines, how to get links, how to do Pay Per Click without breaking the bank and lots of other simple methods to build traffic without costing an arm and an leg.

3. Dave's Online Affiliate Marketing and Info Selling Videos are step by step short simple videos that walk you through the process. I would get the book above first and read it. Then get these videos. You will love them.