After a few e-mails from people who are looking for a step by step tutorial on how to make money I’ve decided to talk about one of the methods that I recommend to newbies that does well and doesn’t cost much to start up. 

What You’ll Need:

• An account at a reputable CPA network.  I recommend ourfreestuff.net since I’m an affiliate manager with them, but really any CPA network will do so long as they are reliable and reputable.  Also, make sure that you can contact your affiliate manager easily.
• Web hosting.  Get a top-level domain name that can be used for nearly anything.  I like to use “media” or “marketing” names (www.salvomedia.com, for example) as a subdomain can be added and not look fishy in the eyes of the users (ie- freewii.salvomedia.com). 
• Basic HTML and knowlege.  If you don’t know any HTML at all check out www.htmlgoodies.com and read up untl youi’re comfortable with it.
• A Google AdWords or Yahoo Search Marketing account.  You’re going to be running some PPC ads, so get an account and desposit $50 or so into it.

The Method:

First, this method does not have longevity each time you do it.   In other words, once you start doing it you’ll have to continue to do it in order to maintain your income.  That being said, it only really takesd about an hour to get set up.  I’ve been able to milk around $1,500 to $2,000 a pop out of this method over the course of a couple of weeks each time I impliment it, but your results may vary.

1. Read the newspaper, watch the news, and generally stay up to date with current events.  Look for big stuff (remember Micheal Vick and his dogfighting ring?) that lots of people will be searching for online.  This is going to be your meal ticket.
2. Once you have something juicy (ie- Paris Hilton getting into another car accident), make a quick survey page.  The purpose of this survey page is to direct to an affiliate offer.  Your survey page should basically say something like “Is Paris Hilton a Bad Driver?  Vote for your chance to win INSERT OFFER HERE“.  Both answers (yes and no) will redirect your simple and easy affiliate offer.  Mobile, e-mail, and zip-submits are all good for this.
3. Set up your keywords.  Make sure that they are all related to current events and that your CPC’s are about 5% of the offer payout.
4. Test, test, test!  If you find that after 200 clicks you haven’t had a conversion you know that something is up.  Test your tracking and make sure it’s working properly!

That’s it, it’s THAT easy!

Income Potential:

You could easily make $500 a day doing this, but keep in mind that search volume will trail off drastically as the news gets old.  For some quick cash, this method can’t be beat!

Misc.:

Obviously, use a top-level domain that is somewhat relevant to the news.  Test your tracking, make sure that your keywords are targeted, and generally use a bit of common sense here.