I’m sure everyone has heard about the people who are making a fortune on the Internet ‘sending links to google’. All of the ‘work at home and make a fortune’ scams that are around these days are all based on this. Listen for a while and you’ll see that it might be possible for you to make some money on the Internet but it’s probably very unlikely that you will make a fortune.

The Internet is based on numbers. There are millions of websites and millions of users. Put those two groups of millions together and you have untold millions of searches and millions of pages viewed. At the top of EVERY search category there is a number one website. If you search for ducks in molasses, you only get 68,000 sites in response. If you search for ‘making money on google’, however, you get 189,000,000 responses. The ‘making money on google’ search is the one I will concentrate on for today.

People search for certain keywords. I guess sex, drugs and rock and roll are popular searches but there are others. Diet and weight loss is a big one. Movie star names are popular too, Brad Pitt, Brangelina, etc. If you were to make a website and tell a little story about these topics, then people would come to your website.

Google makes a bit of money if people come to your website and see the ads that you put up there, as long as they are Google ads, of course. The more people that come to your site, the more money Google makes and the more money you make because Google pays you a very small amount of money for each 1000 people, as an example, who come to your site. Google will pay you more if someone clicks on an ad and even more, I think, if they buy something from the ad.

The whole basis of this way to make money is numbers. If you can write, which many people seem to find impossible, and if you can create a website like this, which is very challenging, then you might be able to make a few bucks.

Here’s a tip. If you look around the web you will see many pages such as this one, some quite well done and some very badly done. It’s the badly done ones that you want to study so you can learn how not to do it. As an example, if you don’t know the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ then you probably should keep your day job.

Besides knowing how to create a web page you have to also know how to get a Google Adsense account as well as knowing how to set up their ads in your html. If all of this is Greek to you, again, don’t quit your day job.

Finally, there is no easy way to make money on the Internet. No one, and I mean no one, is making a fortune by doing nothing. It takes a lot of work and a lot of skill. If you are up for it, then give it a shot. Good luck to you! I think it’s probably easier to make money on Ebay but that’s just my stupid opinion.