Oh no, not another ‘how to make a fortune on the web’ hub! Well not quite.

There are many ways to make money on the web, but like anything in life the more you put into something the more you’ll get out of it. The sites I list below require a lot of work; even with a lot of work, great content and a desire to make money, you may not earn much.

It’s possible to make a fortune, but I’d say the average person using these sites will probably make less than $100 a month. So why bother? Well, I get far more out of these sites than money – if I can help someone, then that in itself is reward.

Bookmark this hub - I'll continue to add opportunities as I find them.

 This site you are reading was designed using Hubpages. There are several sites on the web that allow you to build your own sites using unique content and Hubpages is the easiest to use and seems to be the quickest to get search engines interested.

Hubpages uses a different approach to many other similar sites and allows you to earn in several ways:

• Google Adsense - as long as you have a Google Adsense, Hubpages shares the revenue with you - my experience so far is good, with 38 hubs I am averaging about $1.50 a day - obviously the more quality hubs I build the higher this will grow.
• Affiliates - Hubpages focuses on Amazon and eBay affiliates and again shares revenue with you - so far in a month I've had six sales, but this is more reliant on decent content than anything else.
• Other Affiliates - you can add 'links' to other affiliates and earn 100% of the revenue, but you are limited to two links.

Note: I will gain a percentage of your revenues when you join up using the link below.

One of the keys to having a successful website is having plenty of backlinks to your site. There are many directories and sites where you can link your site; sites like reddit and digg provide a great opportunity to increase traffic and backlinks.

Shetoldme is a another resource; it allows you to post links and a brief summary to any of your websites, and in a similar way to most social sites like this, allows people to vote your article up or down.

The good thing about Shetoldme is that you can earn from your listings; as long as you have a Google Adsense account you can share click revenue with Shetoldme - additionally, any referrals you get you also take a share of the ad income from their listings as their sites also show ads with your adsense account.

So far it's bought a little traffic to my hubs.

Note: I will get some income if you join using the link below.

Squidoo is one of my favorite sites. It provides some amazing tools to build a web page (or Lens) very quickly and easily. Not only that, but the community is very helpful and will always help out a ‘newbie’. While you can monetize a Squidoo Lens very easily, it’s very very difficult to create a Lens that will earn a lot of money.

With Squidoo you can earn money in several ways:

• By being a top lens you can earn $10+ a month
• By sharing revenue from ebay, amazon, cafepress, zazzle etc.
• By promoting affiliate sites.

It takes a lot of work to create a great Lens, and then you also have to be able to market and advertise the Lens to get the best out of it.

 Note: I will gain $5 if you join Squidoo  - however I only earn this when you have earned $15.

This is a new site that I have joined. It's similar to a lot of write and earn sites, but has a couple of twists. There are two way so of posting on the site:

• Similar to Hubpages, Ezinearticles etc you can write an article and post it to the site.
• Similar to sites like reddit, digg you can add a link and give a brief description of the link content.

There are a couple of ways you can earn on Xomba:

• If you have an adsense account, you can share the adsense revenue 50% / 50% with Xomba. Each article or link you write will have Google Ads located next to them - you therefore can get some clicks.
• If you refer a new member, you will get 10% of their adsense revenue.

This site seems pretty good and has a decent following. It seems to be a great place to create backlinks to your Hubs or other articles and thereby increase their search engine ranking.

Note: if you join the site using the link below I will earn 10% of your adsense earnings - this does not reduce the amount you earn.

While I don’t think many people will make much money from eHow, it is a fun site that allows you to create simple ‘How to’ pages. If you happen to hit the right niche you could make upwards of $20 per ‘how’ – one of my ‘how to’ pages earns about $15 a month with no work on my part – pure luck, but I’m not complaining.

I don't gain anything by you joining ehow using the link below.

Epinions is a site aimed at consumers. To earn money on the site, you simply have to write opinions about products and services – the better the quality of the opinion, and the more visits you get, the more you’re likely to earn.

The key to epinions is to hit it at the right time. Quite often they’ll have promotions where they’ll pay $10 for every 10 opinions written (with a limit of $100 per month) – the opinions have to be rated well by the community but as long as you are a good writer and know the product you are writing about then you could do well.

On top of that, the best opinions will get recurring revenue – I don’t use the site often any more, but my opinions still earn a couple of dollars a month even though I haven’t written an opinion for over a year.

I don't gain any money by you joining using the link below - but feel free to read my ePinions!

This potentially is the biggest earner out of all the sites I use to try and earn money on the web. It gives the user the ability to create products (such as t-shirts, mouse pads, posters, stamps etc). You can upload your own artwork etc, and if you have some artistic ability but also have the ability to market yourself then you could do really well on here – you can set your own ‘mark up’ on the products.

So far I’ve made a big fat $0 on here, but I know of many people who make decent money on Zazzle – the difference being, they have talent! I do not!

I will earn a percentage of your earnings on Zazzle if you join using the link below.

One of the most lucrative ways of making money on the web is by using affiliate links. Sites like eBay, Amazon, Apple etc all allow you to become an affiliate and add links, banners, widgets etc that link to their products.

If you combine affiliate links with content that is relevant and well written then you'll probably get some click throughs and possibly some revenue from sales.

Hubpages allows you to share your affilaite links for major sites like Amazon and eBay, and also allows you to place up to two affiliate links in your hub.

Sites like Squidoo have no limit on the way in which you use affiliates, but do not allow you to share your Adsense revenue.

There are three companies that allow you to apply for and maintain affiliate memberships - they both are similar and generally you'll find that if you have decent content, then you'll get decent returns.

Note - I will gain a flat fee of $1.50 if you join Linkshare - I will gain nothing if you join CJ.com or google affiliate network.

There are many sites on the web that provide a ton of information and are constantly updated. These sites don't rely on advertising, and mostly the writing of the site is done by a volunteer.

What I have seen from these sites is an option for the reader to donate to the site (usually through a Paypal button). This does not offend me, and if I use the site often and gain a lot of value from it then I will pay a couple of dollars to the site to help keep it alive.

This isn't possible on Hubpages, but for pages that accept HTML, PayPal provides you the code to add a 'donate' button to your page.

Note:  I will gain 0.5% of your revenue *up to $1000 if you join Paypal using the link below.

From their website:

"RedGage gives you the power to share your blogs, pictures, videos, documents, and links all in one convenient place. But, the most exciting part is...

RedGage is a website that pays you for the content you create. "

Like many sites on the web such as Digg, Reddit etc., this site gives you the opportunity to share your content, or content you have found on the web. Not only that, you can earn money while doing this - you can earn in a couple of ways:

• per 1000 clicks - you get paid a set amount for every 1000 clicks on all your 'content' - the rate I currently get is $1.18.
• Contests - the more active you are on the site, the more chance you have of winning daily, weekly and monthly contests.
• Featured articles - write a great article or link a great website and you could have a 'featured article' - each featured article gets a bonus - usually about $4.50.

I've used this site for about a month and so far have earned just over $10. It's a great way of promoting your Hubs or Lenses, or even your blogs while adding a few dollars here or there.

I don't gain any money by you joining using the link below - but feel free to add me as a friend!

 Take a look around this hub and you'll notice a lot of advertising that seems to link to the content. Most of this advertising is from the Google Adsense program.

Essentially, by joining Google Adsense, you can gain revenue by having your readers click contextual advertising. You can use Adsense in many different ways:

• Sites like Hubpages share revenue by allowing you to add your Google ID and have the advertising on a Hub link to your website.
• You can directly add Google Ads to your own blogs.
• You can add Google Ads to your own personal websites.

While most people will not make millions using Google Ads, you can make a steady income especially as traffic to your websites and blogs increases.

I do not gain money if you join Adsense using the link below.

 When I first started joining websites like these above many years ago I somehow resented the person who was trying to get me to sign up and gain affiliate revenue by simply providing a link. However, as I matured as a Internet user I changed my views. My reasoning is below:

• I do not gain by not signing up using someone's affiliate link - it does not cost me any money or prestige.
• I would not have found these sites without the affiliate link.
• If people stop making money out of these links, then they will stop posting them and the whole affiliate concept will die out.

So I now always sign up using the link provided - if only to pay it forward! I'm not asking you to use any of the links I provide - I've told you where I will make money if you sign up, and it's up to you to choose to click or not to click on my affiliate link.