Small Business Ideas

5 Easy Free Ways to Make Money Online
By Razvan Ionut Rovinaru

In this period of financial crisis many people turn to the internet in the hope that they can somehow grow their household income through internet marketing. Each day, millions of people try making money online but statistics show that only 5% of them actually end up generating a decent income.

Here are 5 tested and proven easy free ways to make money online. They require no investment besides time, determination and an open mind:

1. Blogging

Blogs nowadays can be found all over the internet and are related to just about any subject you can imagine. Creating and developing a money making blog is a lot easier than most people think.

First of all you need to decide on the topic of your blog. Think about what are your hobbies, passions or what topic you are an expert of. Create a free blog over at Blogger or WordPress and start making useful posts regarding that topic. Add AdSense code to your blog’s pages to generate income from your traffic.

To drive swarms of traffic to your blog you should find forums related to your topic and start making posts and helping people. You will be allowed to include a link back to your blog in a signature file that appears after each post you make. The more content you post on your blog, and the more forum posts you make, the more traffic you will generate and the more money you will make.

2. Bum Marketing

Bum marketing refers to the effective combination of article marketing and affiliate marketing. Here’s how it works. You use an affiliate network like ClickBank or CommissionJunction and choose a product that is selling well to promote it for yourself and make a commission with every sale you generate. After selecting a product, you need to start writing articles related to the topic of that product. Find search engine keywords that receive decent traffic but have low competition and build your articles around them.

Create a free blog – again, at Blogger or WordPress – for the product you have chosen and post a review of it – either written by you or one that is provided by the product developer – with your affiliate links included.

Now all you have to do is post articles on a regular basis on article directories like EzineArticles. At the end of each article you are allowed to include a link to your blog where you have posted the review with your affiliate links. Post articles on a regular basis and you will make affiliate sales regularly from the traffic generated. Do a search on Google for Bum Marketing to learn more about this great easy free way to make money online.

3. Selling your services

If you can write, design websites, write scripts and codes, create website graphics, etc, then you could sell your services to people looking for the type of work you can provide. On sites like Getafreelancer of Elance you can find these types of projects and you can bid on them. When making a bid, try providing samples of your work, be polite and try to show the project poster why you would be perfect for the job. This is a very effective way to make money online.

4. eBay auctions

One day eBay auctions work great for generating money fast. If you have something around the house that you don’t use anymore, you could put it up for an auction on eBay. You know what they say, one man’s garbage is another one’s treasure. Anything from apparel to old electronics or appliances works fine. Make pictures with the products and add them to your auction. Try looking at what other people are auctioning and at what is selling and what is not selling. You’ll have a better idea on how to develop your own auction.

5. CPA Offers

CPA means cost per action and generally refers to affiliate offers that don’t need you to make a sale for them to pay you. You can find CPA offers that pay up to $2 for each email collected. All you need to do is join a CPA network like Incentaclick, Azoogle Ads or Maxbounty and start promoting CPA offers. To generate traffic for these types of offers you can make useful posts in related forums that allow affiliate links in the signature. Other popular places where you can make posts or comments and leave your affiliate links are Yahoo Answers, Google Groups or Yahoo Groups.

There you have it, 5 free ways to make money online. If you are unfamiliar with any of the terms, services or networks mentioned in this article, use Google to research them some more.

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