Internet money making is a popular topic because people see it as easy because you can do it at home or anywhere on your computer. They also see so many programs saying you can make a lot of money in a little bit of time with next to no effort.

This is not always the case. Making money online is not super easy and it will take work just as making money offline will. Yet, there are legitimate ways to make a little extra cash online.

Here I will discuss two great internet money making ideas. These are two ways that I have used myself and made money from. Hopefully one or both may be found useful to you.

Writing

If you can do decent writing, there are internet money making opportunities out there for you. Web content is in high demand and if you can write, you can supply it. Probably the hardest part is to find someone who will pay you for your writing.

You could contact people individually, but they can be hard to find and there are risks. If you get an order from someone who says they will pay you upon completion and you give them the content but don't get paid, you did a lot of work for no money.

There are two sites available that you can make money from, AssociatedContent.com and Helium.com. With both you are basically paid for the articles you write, but they work in different ways. You aren't going to get paid a lot. You aren't writing New York Times quality articles, so you aren't going to get paid $50 - $500 per article.

Associated Content is my favorite of the two. You may be able to get paid $3 - $20 per article up front. It is hard to do this. They must be very unique but useful articles that are written well. If you don't get chosen for an upfront payment, you can still get paid performance payments.

At the lowest level, you get $1.50 per 1,000 page views. The more articles you have and the more promotion you do for them, the more money you make.

Helium is quite similar. If you maintain a certain writing and rating performance, they give you stars based on articles written and ratings of other people's articles done, you can make from $1 to $2.50 for every article you write within certain categories. It just can be categories such as creative writing.

On top of that, you also get performance payments. The amount you get will depend on your page views and the amount of writing and rating stars. Again, the more you write, the more you can make.

Get Paid to

If writing isn't your thing, you have other options. You can join a Get Paid to Site. A Get Paid to (GPT) site is a website that will pay you to do things such as fill out surveys and complete offers.

Many GPT sites have come and gone over the past few years. I have used a few. One site that I thought I was doing very well with I had $420 coming my way, but they went bankrupt and I never got my money.

The one site that is still around, has been around for years, always pays, and has no sign of slowing is Cash Crate. It is easily the best GPT site around. You can get paid to fill out offers and take surveys. You will also get paid to refer other people. You can get a certain percentage of what they make.

These surveys and offers are not hard and you don't have to pay anything if you don't want to. You can fill out credit card offers and get paid more, but there are tons of free offers as well that you never have to use a credit card for. Honestly, I never do the credit card offers and I still do very well.

You can learn more about Cash Crate and how to make the most money with it here and you can sign up.