There are lots of different ways to earn money online with internet marketing. The trick is to find one – or longer term more than one – that excites you and means that you’ll work to grow it. Here are a few methods that you can use to get income from your internet marketing.

Advertising revenue

Adverts are everywhere on the web. Whereas a few years ago people would have complained about the level of ads we’re experiencing, it’s now accepted. It’s simple to sign up to places such as Google AdWords and so long as your site meets their ever changing criteria (now and in the future) it’s a good way to start. But you need to remember that whilst this is fairly easy income, you’re at the whims of a computer program as well as what advertisers are prepared to bid for adverts.

Affiliate revenue

This is the usual next level that people go to once they have been internet marketing for a while. Lots of companies will pay a commission for a sales introduction. Some will also pay for sales leads. In effect, you’re working like a commission only sales person. Depending on the program you choose, you may get a lot of help in the way of tools that you can use or you may just get a few raw links and then be left to your own devices. For instance, Amazon has a myriad of different ways that you can link to products or pages on their website inside their Associates program (their term for affiliates). But at the other end of the spectrum a lot of digital products in market places like ClickBank often only have a single link to the product.

Most people start out from the relatively easy affiliate linking with programs like Amazon and then, as their confidence builds, weave the “raw” affiliate links into the pages they create. The more creative you get with your writing and the more natural your links look, the more you are likely to earn from a given amount of traffic. Most of the time, affiliate marketing pays more than simple pay per click adverts like AdWords but if you have a site with a high volume of relatively untargeted traffic – like a jokes site – then you may be better off with general ads.

Your own products

For most internet marketers, this is the height of success. Creating your own product can be as easy or as difficult as you want it to be but whatever you create, it’s a good feeling! The good feeling is further enhanced with digital products as the cost of “delivering” them to paying customers is close to zero, so apart from credit card and other fees you’re at almost 100% profit.