Hopefully, if you're asking this question, you're talking about a trainer. If so, the easiest way I have found is to glide into the runway, staying about 6 inches off the ground level and slow. You can either cut the engine back to idle, or cut it off. If you pitch up at this point, you'll stall and crash. If you pitch down, you'll have to rebend your nose wheel. It's easier to perform a successful landing heading into the wind, but with practice, tailwind and crosswind landings are possible. You've already gotten alot of good advice here, but almost everyone will tell you to get an instructor. If you choose not to enlist the help of someone with experience, then perhaps you should start with something a little more disposable. That is, unless you don't mind buying a new plane every time you botch a landing. I had to learn on my own, but only because it was 60 miles to the nearest field. I still have most of my trainer, somewhere. Then I started building planes out of corrugated plastic. I could plant the plane hard, spend 15 - 20 minutes with a hot glue gun and back in the air it went. It probably would have taken alot less time if I would have gotten help, but, then again, I was young, impatient, and just had to prove to myself I could do it.