How to make money online? That is the million dollar question. I am sure everyone at some point of time asked themselves that question and where to start. I ask myself that question everyday and still have a hard time coming up with new ways to make money online. A lot of time you would hear successful stories about people making five to seven thousand dollars a month working online and still we are having a hard time getting close to that number or even earning nothing for the month. What are we doing wrong? What makes them so successful? And sometimes we even ask yourself if there something wrong with us. Joining Affiliates Programs Joining affiliates programs was the first thing I started to do to make money online. The more affiliates programs you join don`t guarantee you will make a lot of money. It just gives your web site visitors options. I am still learning the process on becoming successful with online marketing but joining some type of affiliate program should not hurt your chances. The main reason I started out with affiliates programs was because I don`t have my own product to sell and the next best thing is to sell someone else product. What is an Affiliate Program? Affiliate Program is an internet marketing service where businesses pays website for each visitor or customer that came from the host website. For example. When you enter a store and within that store has a second store. The second store is affiliated to the main store so every sale the second store makes the main store gets a commission. What is a good affiliate program? A good affiliate program is a program that pays. You have to be very careful which website affiliate program you are going to join. A lot of affiliated program out there don`t pay their members, also your personal information might be for sale, so be careful. What is PPC? PPC stands for (Pay Per Click) - which advertisers pay their host only when their ad is clicked. What is CPI? CPI stands for (Cost Per Impressions) - Each time an advertisement or banner view by a visitor the ad server should count that view as one impression. What is CPA? CPA stands for (Cost Per Action) - where the advertiser pays for each specified action linked to the advertisement. What is P4P? P4P stands for (Pay for placement) - which advertisements appear along with relevant search results from a Web search engine. What is PPCall? PPCall stands for (Pay-per-call) - the consumers bidding for a calls. What is CTR? CTR stands for (Click through rate) - measures the success of an online advertising and obtained by dividing the number of users who clicked on an ad. What is ITA? ITA stands for (In text advertising) - where specific keywords within the text of a web page are matched with advertising.