There are many ways to make money online, so many that it can be hard to know which method is best and easiest. Here are the top 5 quick and easy ways that you can incorporate into your site right away:

Affiliate Marketing

Generally, affiliate marketing is when you promote other peoples products or services and get paid per sale that you make. Often these affiliate opportunities pay 50% or more every time you make a sale, so the earning potential is huge. A good place to start looking for products available to promote is at Clickbank.com which has 1000s of products ready for you to promote.

Banner Advertising

Banner advertising is a good way to monetize your blog or website. You can do it one of two ways: Either sell advertising space or sign up to affiliate a product and use one of their banners. The first way, selling your space, requires your site to have a lot of traffic, since advertisers pay according to how much their ad will be seen.

However, the second method, where you affiliate a product, you don’t need a lot of traffic, necessarily. To do this properly, all you have to do is identify a market, dog training for example, and then start a website on that topic. You can make your site very specific, like a specific form of dog training, which will attract a very targeted audience. By doing this, you can have limited traffic and still make some decent sales because your conversions will be higher.

Paid Surveys or Polls

There are services online that will pay you to put polls or surveys on your site. The best place to find these opportunities is at Vizu.com.

The second way to make money doing surveys is by signing up to survey sites and actually completing the surveys yourself. This is probably the easiest way to start making money online since you don’t need a website, all you do is sign up and start. A good place to find out more about surveys is at http://SurveyFarm.com.

Donations

You may have seen this around, sites that do not monetize their content through ads or by other means often have an option to give donations. Wikipedia is a good example of this. This method might be good for you if you are uncomfortable with the whole ‘selling’ aspect or do not have an interest in advertising. If your site provides valuable content, and you have many followers, donations can be an option for monetizing your site.

In-text Advertising

There are sites out there that will allow you to put sponsored text ads directly in your content. For example, if you are doing a blog post on dog training, you can place linked text directly in the post that will bring in income to your site every time it is clicked. When a reader scrolls over the linked text, information about the ad will pop up. You can sign up for this opportunity at Kontera.com.

These are the top 5 quick and easy ways to make money online. The best way to start out is to choose one of them and actually take action. You will find out quickly that the online world is a great place to make money, all it takes is some follow through and the right method.