If you want to make money with internet marketing then the quickest way to get started is probably to get an Adsense account and start publishing content. You can publish new articles on the internet in a few different places and then place your ads on them and start earning money. Now of course there is some serious work involved and the money does not just fall out of the sky on you. But if you are willing to put forth the effort then you can make serious money at this.
One way to get started is to sign up for a Hubpages account and start publishing hubs. This is just a content platform that tends to carry some weight and authority in the search engines, so when you publish an article there, it is a bit easier to get it to rank in the search engine results. You can use this to your advantage and publish a number of articles there and put your ads on them. Now in fact, Hubpages takes a certain percentage of your ad impressions and serves up their own ads in that instance and so your earning potential is reduced a bit in that way. But on the other hand, the authority and ranking power of the Hubpages domain is probably enough to offset this diminished amount of earnings, and so you can make money fairly quickly in fact. If you want to get started fast then making Hubs would be a great way to go.
Now if you do not like the idea of putting up your content and sharing some of the money with someone else, then you can always go start a free blogger blog and put your ads up there and keep all of the ad money for yourself. Ranking in the search engines is going to be a little bit more difficult right off the bat but in both cases you are going to have to do some work so it is no big deal. If you are in it for the long haul and want to make some real money at this then it is no problem.
Now once you are writing articles and are targeting some keywords with your writing then you need some links. Once links are pointed at your content, the search engines will realize that there is something there and it is something worth sending some traffic to. This is how to make money. You need links pointed at your content and that will drive search engine traffic.