How to Earn Money Online Creating Your Own Websites

If you can create your own websites, you can monetize them to earn money online. How do you make those websites? How do you monetize a website? These are good questions. Let's take an in depth look.
It helps to take look at the steps someone takes when they use the internet.

1) They type in a search phrase into Google (or another search engine)
2) They read the search engine results and click on the link that sounds most relevant to what they are looking for.
3) They find exactly what they are looking for on that website, or they find a link to exactly what they are looking for.
4) They buy what they are looking for.

So who made money in that process? Good question! Most of the time the answer is: The owner of the website that sold you the product made money, AND the owner of the website that provided the link to that website!

When you clicked on that link, a cookie was placed on your computer which keeps track if you bought anything in the next pre-determined time period.

Step 1) Choose a topic/niche/product to sell. There are numerous companies that provide the links to put on your websites that will give you commissions if someone clicks on them and buys something.
Step 2) Create a website and put the affiliate links within the content. If you create a super-niche oriented site about something someone is searching for desperately, there is a good chance they will click on the link and buy something.
Step 3) Bring visitors to your website by writing articles, creating blog posts, and other methods.

So you can see that creating those websites is one of the most important steps in the process.
Ways to make websites-

1) Outsource the work on a site like ELance or ODesk.
2) Buy expensive software, take classes, and make the websites.
3) Use a simple blogging tool that creates websites/blogs in minutes.

Personally, I use step 3. I create blogs using WordPress. Best of all, the software is freely accessible within my hosting account, and it's simple to use.

You can create cheap websites in minutes (just the price of the domain), and search engines tend to like them and rank them highly. You can't lose with that combination.

I then put content on the website centered on a certain topic, complete with links to the product I'm selling as an affiliate, and start earning money in proportion to how many visitors I can bring to the site. It's that simple.