How do affiliated marking and AdSense work?

[Vikki]

I'm going to college here soon for digital media and will be able to learn all about making great websites which I could then put ads in. It'd be great for a little extra cash here and there if it really works. Also, how does it decide how much you get paid? I know it's by how much the ad gets clicked, but what if I click them myself? Or I have my friends go click them on their computers until I could get my site well known?

[Pistol]

Go ahead and try it and see for yourself.

[Mark]

making websites can be very complicated, "how much you get paid" doesn't always do what it says on the tin by the way, you won't become a millionaire overnight, you require backlinks and build up presentations to your site to advertise/market it, then traffic will be driven through it, it is hard work, in the end it should pay the bills.


You should try a review site like bestbetaffiliates.com
I use it, it actually makes quite a bit of money, they offer advice on starting out too

[Mark]

I recommend reading this: http://onsiblo.com/ blog, as it answers a lot of the questions you've asked. And it'll give you a head start, too.

Here's the page on AdSense, http://onsiblo.com/adsense/, it's made me money and a lot of others in the comments also.