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  The Internet is the new frontier for entrepreneurs. It has been heralded as a way for big business to reach more customers and for the little guy to better monetize his time. However, making money on the Internet is not nearly as easy as some might think.
  
  

Advertising

• Advertising has been the traditional route for making money on the Internet . Companies like Google have built billion-dollar empires based mainly on advertising. The best way to take advantage of online advertising is first to create quality content. Once people have a reason to frequently visit your website, you will be able to secure advertising contracts based on your site's performance. Technology, however, has made this more difficult than it was five years ago; many users have programs that block pop-up and other ads. If people can't see your advertisements and decide to click on them, you won't make any money. Still, more low-key forms of advertising are effective, such as small ads that appear interwoven with written content. The best types of modern online advertising are not flashy and do not attempt to pop out at the user. They are subtle and carefully selected to match the content of the page where they appear.
  
  

SEO

• Search-engine optimization is the newest method of enhancing your money-making potential. Lard your website's content with terms and phrases that lead to it being ranked higher on popular search engines, particularly Google. The other important part of this is meta-tagging. Meta-tagging refers to literally putting the HTML tag <meta> in your website's code with terms that will commonly be searched.
  
  

Telecommuting

• A number of websites post jobs that can be done by telecommuting. Writers are particularly in luck, as much of today's demand is for online rather than print content,. Freelancer.com and Elance offer postings for contract work in all sorts of fields.