There are kids on the Web who are making money for themselves, with the help of the parents (parents have to open the accounts the kids need -- hosting, advertising, etc)
Hannah Altman, a 10 year old started a website selling pencil toppers, and making good money
http://www.womenhomebusiness.com/success/hannah-altman-10-year-old-ceo-success.htm. Ashley Qualls is another example who rode the coattails of MySpace and earned for herself a huge pile of cash
http://www.womenhomebusiness.com/blog/ashley-qualls-17-year-old-success-story.htm Here are the main ways you can e********y from the Internet:
1. Sell products on the Web - You can either sell: (a) through your own storefront through your own website or applications such as Yahoo Stores; or (b) sell through online auctions like eBay
http://www.ebay.comhttp://www.amazon.com 2. Information Delivery. Others such as About.com create content and monetize their content in a number of ways:
a. Advertising - there are several ways you can e********y from advertising:
1. Join an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services.
Burst Media
http://www.burstmedia.com ValueClick
http://www.valueclickmedia.com 2. Participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system.
Google Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/
Kontera
http://www.kontera.com Chitika
http://www.chitika.com Bidvertiser
http://www.bidvertiser.com/ 3. Sell advertising for your site directly. This is admittedly a more difficult route for a small business site wanting to earn advertising revenues. But hey, as they say: "no pain, no gain!"
b. Affiliate Programs - you sell other people's products that your audience may be interested in; and you get a certain commission after the desired action was done (whether a sale, a lead, subscription to email newsletter, or however this is defined)
Paid online content. Hoovers.com or WebmasterWorld.com Supporters forum all require paid subscription before accessing the information