The 5 Easiest Ways to Make Money Online

1. Sell Links from Blogs
The process is incredibly easy. Go to any blog site and set up a blog (wordpress.com is my current favorite). Start blogging - write about anything in particular. Then sign up at popular text-link and pay-per-blog sites like…

These sites will pay you to put links up on your homepage and on individual blog posts. Prices for each range anywhere from $2 or $3 per post to over $100 per post or $15+ per month.

2. Ebay Arbitrage

Okay, do I really have to explain this one? You probably will never make a killing off of Ebay considering how popular and competitive it is these days, but you can certainly make a few bucks off of the trash you have filling up the family room right now.

So What is Ebay Arbitrage? The truth is, most people don’t know how to use Ebay - that includes sellers. Find products that are reasonably easy to sell (barely used, gadgets, mid-range pricing ($20-$100)) that are set to expire at unfortunate times - like 2:00 AM Eastern. Chances are, these items will be sold significantly below the price of products that expire at times when a larger number of people are available online. I personally prefer 4:00 Eastern, which means that the entire United States is at work in front of a computer, most likely neither at lunch or in transit. You can also try around 9 PM, but that is pushing it, and many on the west coast may be at dinner.

Buy the product at the decreased price, and immediately put it back up for sale to expire in 2 or 3 days right at 4:00PM eastern. Almost inevitably the bids you receive will be much higher than what you paid plus the cost of listing. Oh yeah, worst case scenario, you can always make some of the money up in increased shipping costs.

3. Paid Surveys
These get a bad wrap, and deservedly so. The vast majority of paid survey websites are complete and utter scams.

Notice I said “majority” and not “all”. So here are the rules to picking out those that are not going to screw you.

No membership fees: if they ask for money, run for the door. If they ran a viable, legit service, they could collect dollars by taking a percentage of your earnings - a much more trustworthy source of income.
Few upfront questions: you will have to provide some demographic information no matter what, but try to avoid sites that require personally identifiable information, like actual home address or phone number - even if they claim they just need it to pay you. Look for Paypal enabled sites instead.

4. Squidoo, etc.
Over the last few years, several sites like Squidoo have popped up that allow you to share revenues with the site for content that you write.

Why would you want to write content to put on someone else’s site? The thousands upon thousands of links pointing to sites like squidoo cause them to rank highly for tons and tons of keywords. This means that their site is far more likely to rank for keywords in the content that you write than the blog you threw up yesterday at Blogspot. By writing at Squidoo, or similar sites, you can tap into their search rankings for simply giving them a cut of the advertising dollars on the pages they run. It is an incredibly easy process to get started, and a fantastic way to make revenue by simply writing about the things you know.

5. Mechanical Turk
Without a doubt, this is one of the coolest ideas ever created. Imagine truly mundane tasks - like figuring out the words on the cover of an album - that a human would be good at, but a machine would not. Well, the folks at Amazon created a system where these very simple tasks could be pushed through a website, and you could get paid for performing them.

Most tasks are worth literally a few cents, but also take only a few seconds to complete. At this point, there are over 50,000 “HITs” available, their word for tasks. This means that there is a ton of work available for you to start earning. The best part about it is that you need little to no technical expertise to use the Mechanical Turk.

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