Making money online

by | Jun 2, 2011 | Updates

After being a webmaster since 2006 I can tell you that making money online isn’t as easy as it seems. Google AdSense is the only way to make real and decent money as the alternatives cannot beat Google AdSense’ revenue sharing percentage.

You have probably reached this blog through Google and are looking for ways to make money online. As you have either lost your job, you don’t like your job or purely want a job where you can do everything from home.

The only way I know through my experience on the internet is Google AdSense. I’ve seen countless people making thousands of dollars with AdSense. – With the opening up of partnerships with YouTube people are earning thousands of dollars through videos that go viral or through gaining a subscribers list on YouTube. But you have to understand these people get views on their websites or get views on their videos for one reason only. People want to see their videos and their content otherwise they wouldn’t be there. It is that cliché of creating something which will make others like your video then spread those videos like a viral infection. That is what essentially gains views to websites and videos.

But if you don’t want to be a content creator, however purely want jobs which are easy online, where can you find trustworthy sites?

Your first stop is probably looking on Google, but you have to be extremely weary due to the fact that the scam artists around the world have access to the internet. I’m sure there are plenty of scam artists in your country, but now you face the worlds scam artists and they are more adaptive and especially so on the internet. – They can get away with things much easier without consequence. There is no real regulator out there and if you want to do anything about a scammer it would cost you a lot more money than it is worth.

Get rich quick schemes don’t exist

I can tell you now that there is no such thing as getting rich quickly. I tried my best for several years to make a business run online, but failed. I’m just writing this article so others don’t make the same mistakes I made. I could have had made so many better decisions, but hindsight is what it is and I started at an early age of the internet when there were no articles of advice around. I’m sure this would have helped me back then. You have to be extremely careful and weary at the mention of getting rich quickly as there is always going to be something behind something like that which someone is hiding from you.

Finding work online through legitimate websites

I’m recommending one place and only place as a way to find certain jobs online. The only problem is that most of these jobs are not long-term or secured, but that doesn’t negate the fact that there are a few jobs which are worthy of giving you a little extra money on the side if you need it or want it. The pro is that if you find an employer for just one job, for example article writing, you can use that job as experience for the next employer and so forth.

The website is called Free Lancer. It has a large database of various jobs from simple article/blog writing to software programming. You still have to be careful but at least with big sites like these, they act as regulators. You also have to keep in mind that you are not the only person looking to make money online. There are many thousands if not millions who have the same idea around the world. You’ll probably come to the conclusion like I have that others have better skills than you. But you never know, you may find a job in there to make a little bit of money.

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