Online money making ideas

A few years ago, if you wanted to think of some online money making ideas you would have probably needed to be tech and market savvy and have your own website, along with some products to sell. Today, however, you don’t need all of that. There are plenty of sites that will pay for what you do best and you don’t need to be a marketing genius or a web designer for this to work out. These internet money making ideas are easy moneymakers.

Write articles

There are a large number of sites that pay you for articles or blog posts in numerous categories. Sites such as Helium or Associated Content claim to ‘pay for performance’ depending on the number of page views an article gets, regardless of the content of the article. If you write an article on a specific topic that they ask for, you can earn direct payments of up to $200. Established writers will probably find that rate to be quite low, but if you’re just trying to break into the business and decide to do this with your free time, it’s not a bad number at all.

Put up your own blog

At Blogger you can start your own blog completely free in less than ten minutes. You might not know anything about how this gets you money, but that’s ok because Google AdSense is automatically set up so that the cash will flow in when your blog displays ads that people click on.  You can make some additional money by setting up an affiliate program for books, music, etc. You simply have to insert the affiliate links wherever you mention these items in your blog. There are six figure bloggers out there, but that’s because they get an enormous amount of traffic. You can start out by picking an interesting topic, writing well and telling all your friends about it.

Create your own niche for a resource hub

Do you carry some expertise on a particular topic, be it sports, healthcare or technology? Then you can set up an overview of your speciality topic and obtain some of the best resources on that topic from around the web. The result is a topical hub, which pays through certain sites such as HubPages, Google Knol and Squidoo. The payment you get depends on both affiliate fees and ad revenue. You’ll get a higher rate if you do it on your own. However, these sites come with a built-in supply of tools so that creating content is easier, and they generate lots of traffic on their own.

Advertise other people's products

If you already run your own website or have a successful blog, the next step is to look for vendors who offer related products that are non-competing, and then check if they have an affiliate program. When doing this you should stick to products and brands that are familiar, as they are easier to sell. You can promote these products by using graphical ads or simple text in appropriate locations on your site. You can