The content is the main factor for which people come to visit your site. If the content is good and offers some value to the readers, then they will come back again or otherwise they will leave for good.
Here are the four ways to make money online from Content. You can combine them to generate your own ways.
1) Blogging
Difficulty: Easy
Cost: None
Blog as a content model is very good and easy to start with. You can create blogs within seconds. There are free blogs available such as wordpress, blogger which can be set up within seconds. Start a blog on a topic that you like and we can keep writing on it. However you should read some good blogs before starting it. Read ProBlogger by Darren Rowse - this can help you to start at a better note.
2) Informational Sites
Difficulty: Easy - Medium
Cost: None
Creating a resource site is little harder than starting a blog. Resource sites are sites which contains static pages on a particular topic which contains huge amount of information about a topic. A resource site will contain almost all the information about a particular topic.
3) Forums
Difficulty: Medium
Cost: None
Forums are the places where people discuss about a topic or area. Creating a forum is easier with many forum creating software available on the net. It is easy to create but difficult to maintain and grow it. Forums are places where people register and become a member. It depends on people to grow in popularity and traffic. It is very good fro the point of view of traffic because members visit the forum many times in one day. Everything depends on how popular your forum is.
4) Affiliate Services
Difficulty: Hard
Cost: Medium - High
This business is great if you can find out something/sites that acts as an affiliates between two systems or two types of users. These types of content models get two types of clients- the users and the sellers. Some of the good examples are ClickBank and other affiliate marketplaces, eBay, advertising companies etc. This is relatively hard to start because it needs programming skills and good startup money. However the return is more in these types of models
