Many people are looking for ways to make money without having to invest a ton of money, or any money at all. Some of these people have turned to the internet to make their fortunes. The internet is a great place for anybody to make money, because it doesn't require you to have an office or a building. Many of the top online entrepreneurs don't even have any employees. And there are hundreds of people making a living completely online. Even some kids have started using the internet to make some money online. In this article I will explain 3 ways that people use the internet to make money online.

1. Affiliate Mall

Have you ever considered owning your own mall? In most malls you would have to own your own giant building, which would cost you millions of dollars to build, or to buy. However if you were to do this online you could do this for free. Of course online malls or affiliate malls (as I will call them in this article), are slightly different from traditional malls. With traditional malls, you have many small sections, or stores, that people can rent out from you. And this is how you make your money. With affiliate malls you put pictures of other people's products, information about their product, and a link to their site, using something called an affiliate link, which tracks who you refer to their store.

Every time someone buys the product that you are selling, you make a percentage of the price that it sold for. To find affiliate programs to promote you could search with Google or Yahoo, which would take a ton of time to find each product to promote. Or you could join an affiliate network (or two). And promote the products in the affiliate network.

I recommend that you join the following two affiliate networks:

1. Clickbank

2. Commission Junction.

Also to create your site you could do it manually which would first off take a lot of time, and second off would require you to know html and other things like that. Or you could use a pre-made mall that would probably include mostly Clickbank products. I recommend the later as it would be a much easier to do. The downside is that they take some of the sales at random (usually around 10%) as their own, in order to pay for the service that they are giving away.

Of course you still need to get traffic to your site. However this is a bit beyond the scope of this article so you will have to learn how to get traffic to your site on your own. But once you learn how to do it won't be hard to duplicate the process over and over again.

2. Blogs

You could also create your own blog. To do this you could use a program owned by Google called Blogger. This automatically creates a blog for you. And you just need to write short articles for the blog and promote the blog. Try to create your blog about a specific topic such as politics, or the stock market, etc. Just choose something that you are interested in and write articles about it. To make money you could either use a program called Google Adsense which allows you to put ads on your site, and you get paid every time someone clicks on the ads. Or you could use affiliate programs. I recommend that you use a combination of both.

3. Article Marketing

The final method to make money online that I will mention is called article marketing. This is where you write an article and submit them to article directories such as Ezine Articles. You then get a resource box where you can include information about various products as well as links the product or products. You would include your affiliate link.* Or you could include a link to your own website/blog.

*Note that if you are using Ezine Articles you are not allowed to directly include affiliate links in the resource box.

These are some of the methods that you can use to make money online. These are definitely worth looking into if you want to make money. You may also want to use a combination of these methods. For example you could create a blog, and promote it using article marketing.