What is Affiliate in computer parlance? It is nothing, but, an agent or representative of other website. For e.g. Website "A" is a shopping website. Website "B" is your website containing useful information for visitors. You can include code of Website "A" to your website "B". Then, Ad of Website "A" will get displayed in your website. When visitors of your website clicks on the ad of Website "A" and purchases products from Website "A", you will be paid commission by Website "A". That means, you earn some money. If your website has many visitors and if some visitors go to website "A" from your website, this is an added revenue.

How to make money in legal way

There are hundreds of ways to make money from internet legally.

First of all, one has to learn about launching a website. To begin with, knowledge of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is requried. Tutorials on HTML are available in the internet. Learn HTML and make some free webpages. Once you are comfortable with HTML, try to learn other internet related languages viz. XHTML, RSS, CSS etc. one by one. Slow and steady wins the race. Don't worry. Even a little knowledge of HTML will do for making a website.

If you are ready to make websites, find out various options to make money through your website. There are ample ways. Ad programs of Google, Yahoo!, Adbrite etc. are a few.

What are these ad programs? It is simple. You make a website on any topic. You submit that website to ad program, say, of Google (known by name "Google Adsense"). Once it is approved by Google, you get a code of ad. When you insert this code in your website, advertisements under the head "Ads by Google" appear in your website. When visitors of your website click the advertisements, you get income through your adsense account. Similiar is the case with other ad programs. Of course, you refer respective ad program sites for details. Note that earning income from ad programs should be legal in your country.

What are the other ways? You can become affiliate of other websites. What is affiliate means? You become an agent of other websites. Those websites give you some codes to insert in your website. Once those codes are inserted, their advertisements will get displayed in your website. Visitors of your website clicks on those advertisements. You get commission from those advertisers. Here too, see that there are no legal hurdles in your country.

I shall post other ways of making money in the days to come. Please visit this website regularly for updates on making money online.