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One of the most frequently asked questions of all time is, "How do I to earn extra money on the Internet"?

If you have tried at least once to earn something on the Web, you have probably heard about some of the popular existing schemes. Everyone considers themselves an expert, or at least a person who knows one. It is like a marketing master clique. Marketers will always try to sell you something you don't need and persuade you that your life is miserable without their product and that you will remain a nobody in their eyes without knowing someone.

Their actions speak for themselves: product launches, audio and video streaming, teleseminars, and joint ventures, etc. The masters that are selling these products and services are making money hand over fist. Quite surprisingly, a awesome number of their customers are satisfied with genuine products and services they buy.

But what most of them will not tell you is that there are thousands of people on the Internet making thousands of dollars a month without spending a lot of money. They don't need to attend seminars across the country just to make deals. They don't get involved in joint ventures because no one knows what it is and who they are. They literally sit in front of their computers in their underwear, click a few links, and wait for the money to roll in.

Wondering how this is possible? This is where Affiliate links, Google Adsense, and content help.

How does Google Adsense help? To begin with, search engines pick up web sites, which have a lot of good content.

It works better when you site contains a number of pages and links between them, so that search engine spiders can crawl the site and rank each page.

What do you need to do to earn extra money? Place Adsense ads on every page. Some readers will click the Adsense links. Every click of theirs gets you a commission from Google. The commission could be anywhere between a few cents to several dollars.

Think of ways to make your site more popular so more people visit it and the likelihood of them clicking the link increases. They need not buy the product advertised. Just clicking the link makes you money.

The only thing that stops you now is good content. Write it yourself, if you can. Writing does not come easily to most of us though.

You can also use content on popular subjects written by others. Many popular online directories can serve as a good source for content. Most of it can be used for free if you include the link to the article's source. You can take advantage of such practice because you don't sell your own product.

The major downside to using other peoples articles is that the reader will view them as the expert and likely click the link in the resource box instead of the Adsense links, and you lose money.

Another option is Private Label Rights articles. With a few little touches you can turn these articles into your own.

You can earn extra money without having any product of your own by just including your own resource box with a link to an affiliate program. So whether the reader clicks this link or your Adsense links, you are likely to earn extra money.

This way you can quite easily earn thousands of dollars online, as opposed to what you have believed. As in any business, you need to give the audience what they want and to maintain the traffic to your site.