There are many ways to make money  online. you can either publish some interesting and make money from your site's visitors using advertising engines such as google's adsense.  Or you can choose to do some affiliate marketing, where you help to promote other peoples product and get a commission by directing your traffic to the merchant's site. If you are not keen on either of the above, another alternative is to do online surveys and get paid for it.  Check out the news, blogs and tweets about doing online survey for money.