60 ways of making money online

I have been asked time and time again by many people “How do I make money online” there are so many ways of making money online not all of them revolve around affiliate marketing there are lots of creative and clever ways of making money online, you’ve just got to find a niche.

In this blog I am going to list 60 ways of making money online, some of the ways are quite well-known and some of the other ways are unique also giving you the room to twist the idea and making your own.
The key here is to remember that you are providing a service to the Internet reader/surfer and if you have that in your mind throughout the development of any one of these 60 ways of making money online you will be on the path to success. (Very American Blog sounding

Some of these ideas can generate money quite quickly others will take time to develop, I suggest starting on only one or two of these ideas at a time preferably one if you’re a beginner to this. None of these ideas are going to work without effort on your part (there’s no such thing as free money in this world, you do have to work for it but you don’t have to work your life away).

1. Associated Content - Associated Content is a company based in USA that pays for quality and unique content, if you have a hobby a interest or knowledge a particular field then why not it sell your articles to Associated Content they pay around $8.00 per quality article doesn’t have to be a massively long article (at least 400 words) but you have to know what you’re talking about and provide unique quality content to be paid. Also what’s great about this programme you get $1.50 per 1000 page views so over time you can build up the automated income stream.

URL: http://www.associatedcontent.com/

2. Small Business Franchise – You don’t have to start from scratch you could purchase a franchise and have the support and knowledge given to you by the franchise seller. There are many small franchise-selling directories on the Internet listing a range of online franchise opportunities ranging from very little to larger investments. This is a great way of setting up if you require support or have very little technical knowledge.

3. Creating a Niche website – Many people make a full-time income creating niche websites. If you find a good niche it can easily make you anywhere from one dollar to as much as $50 a day, in most cases you work out between $1 – $4 per day, it doesn’t sound much but many people who make a living this way set up hundreds of these sites making one dollar per day from each (Do the Maths). So what’s on the niche website and make the money, while the most popular way is using a script such as PHPBay which generates eBay feeds for the particular niche you’re advertising. eBay has one of the best affiliate marketing networks on the Internet called EPN “eBay Partner Network” but this network is kind of exclusive these days and it will take a few attempts on your part to join it. But don’t despair writing a quality niche blog with Adsense adverts can also bring in a nice amount per day.

4. Domain Real Estate – A good dot com may be difficult to find now. But there are a lot of gTLDs and ccTLDs from the .info to .eu to .tv to .co.in and they all present opportunities being discussed in several good forums. Put your thinking hat on, buy a famous word domain for a few dollars and put it up on the domain selling sites.

5. Domain Misspellings – Domain misspelling is quite common why not profit from it and by a domain similar to a well-known website. Once you open at the main you can put affiliate links onto the website redirecting them to what they’re looking for making a profit along the way and benefiting the customer.

6. Domain Parking – Some people guess a URL if they want a particular service such as electrician for a example typing in electrician.com you can then redirect them using affiliate links or paid advertising to a electrician’s or other services website.

7. Blogging – Do you know about a subject, do you have a hobby, and do you have something to offer the reader? Well if you do blogging is a full-time living that some people there are some brilliant resources on the Internet such as ProBlogger.com that can provide you with tips on how to make money from your blog. The most common way is running Google Adsense alongside your content.

8. Auto-Blogging – Auto Blogging has become very popular over the last few months. Let’s get one thing straight auto blogging is not a blog about cars, it’s a automated blog that pulls articles from a selection of sources using a selection of technologies the most popular is RSS. There are many websites that provide free RSS feeds for your automated blog that are legal but as a result many people use these sites and will have the same articles as you. With a autoblog it tends to be seen by the search engines as a lower quality content site is you won’t make as much as a quality blog created by human but if you set up many auto-blogs you can easily create any extra income this way.

9. Domain Drop Catches – People sometimes forget to renew their domains and these expire. Picking them up will give you some remnant traffic from sites that link to this domain/people who’ve bookmarked it etc. In some cases the traffic can be pretty high. Provided you’re fast enough to replace the copyrighted content that was there with something else you can make quite a profitable business from doing nothing else but this.

10. Domain Drop Catches Renewal - A variation on the above. Sell the domain back to the previous owners. Note that you may want to tread carefully and get familiar with the rules for that TLD before you start sending off ransom notes. For example, with ICANN (domains that end in .com, for example) the moment you send the previous owners an email saying you’ve got their domain and you’ll give it back for $10K… you’ve lost. It can’t look like a ransom demand. Be reasonable and read the small print of the UDRP.

11. Gumtree and Craigslist Resell – another quite successful way of making money online is using GumeTree or Craiglist and searching these directories for popular items selling on eBay or any other auction site at the moment such as “iPhone” or a “xBox” and buying them from people locally picking them up and then reselling them on eBay for a profit. In most cases people selling items on directories or even newspaper directories will take on offer below the asking price and this is where you will make a profit by reselling them online reaching a wider market.

12. Starting a local EBay selling Service – This is a variation of the above idea, advertising locally a selling online service for people who don’t have a computer or may be the knowledge/skills of selling online. You would charge a percentage of the total for your services making a profit.

13. Domains for Sale Directory – Start a directory to list domains for sale. That’s what people like SEDO do. You can get money just for allowing domains to be listed in your directory.

14. Purchasing AutoPilot Websites - Many websites runs on “auto-pilot”. A common price these sell for in is 12-24 months worth of net earnings (crazy price, but it is true). Provided you don’t mess the website up you can recover your capital in as little as 12 months and then sell the site to recover your capital again. Doubling your capital every year creating a 100% return.

15. Working from home for local company – Do you have a skill that you can work from home with? You may have programming knowledge, or web design knowledge or be a graphic designer. These skills do not require you to go to the office you can do them at home. With today’s technologies such as broadband and voice over IP it gives that employers opportunity to lower overheads and have their staff working from home. There are many Job Boards out there that advertise work from home opportunities just make sure you pick locally so you can visit the company and make sure it’s a kosher opportunity there are so many scams out there be careful.

16. Virtual Assistant – Over the last few years this has become increasingly popular, all you really need to do this as a living are good computer typing skills. You also need a good computer set up with good broadband links and telephone/voice over IP set up. The everyday tasks involved in being a virtual assistant can vary from basic typing to answering calls and even shopping.

17. Web design - This must be one of the oldest ways of making money online it works both on a online capacity and offline using local businesses. They can be a lot of competition online especially with some countries being able to charge very little a large website. I have had success in the past with dealing with local companies and people always like to deal with someone face-to-face and the audience you’re aiming at locally most properly have never heard of website like elance.com.

18. Outsourced Web Design – this one is similar to above but the work is outsourced to other people. What you do is get work from local businesses and outsource of the timely Web development to people on elancer.com or other freelance website some countries charge pennies compared to what you will charge locally making you a profit and giving you the time to go out there and get more business to outsource that to.

19. Photo Restoration – I tried this a few years ago with great success if you have good photo shop skills this can be a tidy income stream. All you need to do is set up website advertising your services or may be advertised in your local telephone directory having people e-mail or post their photos in for you touch up and restore using photo shop.

20. Niche Internet Directory – Web Masters pay to be listed in your directory. The better your directory the more you can demand. Niche, Human compiled directories are a million times better than SERPs results and both companies and users know this.

21. Online Surveys – If you’re not worried about privacy and are willing to disclose some of your personal details (or maybe fictional personal details) there’s usually someone willing to pay you to fill these in. Just search online for “Paid Online Surveys” but look in to the company before signing up

22. Adult Content – Some people may not be too fussed on this but that old saying “sex sells” really applies online there are many people making a living driving traffic to adult affiliate websites, making a full-time living doing this. Some research and timing is needed on your part to discover the right programme to you.

23. Email (Human Spam Reader) – Read email and get paid for it. So why would companies pay for this? Well plenty of reasons, not least that a human eye can spot SPAM that even the best program doesn’t catch. Even the best anti-spam program has some false positives and some companies can’t afford to have any.

24. Forum Posting Business – Become a professional forum poster, Webmasters are always looking for fresh content and an active community on their websites and often pay people to post or even moderate their forums.

25. Sell your Junk – One of the most common and easiest ways of making money online is selling off your old junk on sites such as eBay. Remember or maybe your rubbish maybe somebody else’s treasure.

26. Drop Shipping – This is a slight variation of the above if you find you have a knack of selling on eBay why not make it into a full-time business at no risk to you. There are plenty drop shipping companies out there and plenty of reputable drop shipping directories to choose from once you find your preferred supplier you can sell on sites such as eBay without having the risk or capital of holding stock.

27. Affiliate Link Posting – There are many websites and blogs out there discussing or the products and reviewing them allowing visitors to post their ideas and thoughts on the subject. As long as you have something valuable to contribute towards the conversation you can drop relevant affiliate links to the product or service in your post. If you do this smartly and use a domain cloak you have the potential here to make a good automated income stream.

28. Amazon Associate Store – The biggest and most respected online retailer Amazon as a great and long-lived affiliate program. You can use API’s provided Amazon to create your own specialist store using Amazons large selection of stock. There are programmes/scripts out there such as “Associate O Matic” that will build a website within seconds looking like any other e-commerce website but full of Amazon stock and affiliate links. People/Sufers will not realise it’s a Amazon affiliate site until checkout. If you set up a few of these stores in a selection of niches this can be eventually a full-time automated income with a bit of search engine optimisation.
URL: http://www.associate-o-matic.com/

29. Creative Thinking – Do something creative, easier said than done but some of the most successful people on the Internet and self-made millionaire thought this way and it has paid off for them, For example the million-dollar home page a young student who sold 1 million pixels at a dollar each, this was something unique and wacky and most probably would not work again but it made him a millionaire. Another example is the young lady who created custom MySpace templates and selling them for a profit she now also it’s a millionaire. It can be done you just need some creative thinking and also if you think it is outside of your technical skills why not use outsourcing websites to create your vision.

Example URL: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

30. Social Networking Link Posting – Join the MySpace/Facebook/Bebo bandwagon, build up a lot of “friends” and bulletin advertise the hell out of them. Send them to pages where you promote affiliate programs and you could walk away with five figures every month. There are people who make a lot more.

31. Create Topic Newsletter – Building a Newsletter mailing list is a long term plan and it pay’s dividend’s but don’t expect immediate results it takes time. If your newsletter is good and you promote it well you can collect hundreds of thousands of subscribers . The more subscribers you have on your list the more advertisers pay to feature in your newsletter.

Example URL: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

32. SEO Professional Link Monkey – Webmasters want people to link to their websites. It helps them rank higher with search engines. But they don’t have the time to contact other Webmasters. You do that for them and get paid per link. If you’re smart you’ll find shortcuts and charge people a lot of money for identifying and approaching possible link “partners”.

33. SEO Professional Directory Submission – Start a directory submission service. There are lots of directories around like the ODP. Many take free submissions but you have to do these by hand. When you’re familiar with the submission process at a few of the top ones it takes you a lot less time to make submissions. Webmasters have to register, wait for a reply, jump through other hoops etc. They’d rather outsource it to someone who can do it faster and has the time.

34. SEO Professional Link Building – Dropping mention of your customer’s site in forums, blog comments and social networks. There are spamming way’s of doing this and some more decent way’s. If you can make relevant posts that contribute to the discussion, and provide only those URL links that are beneficial to that article, you’ll be in high demand with webmasters looking to spread the word about their content.

35. Write an eBook – If you know something about something? Whether it’s about growing carrotts, writing PHP or Photography.. If market your book well, or pay for a good marketer, you can probably sell a few hundred copies of your eBook. People pay online and download it, no publisher, printer, book shop or other awkward details to worry about.

36. YouTube Ring Tone Marketing – This is a good opportunity selling ring tones to the younger market via a popular media such as youTube. To achieve this you need to upload a proportion of a music video editing it with a URL to your affiliate ring tone account, so when somebody looks for a music video they like on youTube they get a chance to purchase the ring tone for their phone as they obviously like the song because they were looking for it on youTube. I have tried this method and it works well.

37. youTube Review Marketing – A twist on the method above, why not review a popular product or service of available on the Internet and within your review and youTube profile post a affiliate URL to the appropriate product. Those of you with technical skills can also cloak the domain to make it more friendly to the viewer. This method also works very well as you will appear in Google nearly immediately and if you type in the correct key terms into your review description you should get traffic in no time. If you have a large selection of reviews this can become a automated revenue stream.

38. Data Inputting and Sorting - Data Inputting/Sorting and other mundane jobs usually pay by the hour. This is the online version of envelope stuffing except that there really are opportunities to do these jobs online.

39. Online Graphic Designer - Design and offer logos, icons and other design services. Good designs, logos and icons can sell for several hundred dollars. Also icon designs can be sold again and again making a automated income stream using stock websites.

40. Sell Advertising – If you have a website that gets a lot of visitors you can sell advertising space on it. Companies will pay you for advertising space on your site, just like they pay to advertise in magazines and newspapers.
This is how content free websites make money – they sell advertising. Free content attracts a lot of visitors. The higher is the number of people who visit the website, the more money you can make from advertising.

41. Professional Affiliate - Affiliates send visitors to other companies’ websites and get paid a commission/percentage of all the sales/leads they refer. You don’t have to worry about creating websites, dealing with customers, shipping and payment processing. Your only job is to advertise those websites and send people there. People will buy products from those websites and you will be paid your commission. When you become an affiliate, you will be given a unique link with a tracking code. In your advertising, you will send people to that link. This unique code will ensure that all the sales will be properly credited to you.

42. Create your own clothing – creating your own clothing and selling it online is a great way of making money and you don’t even have to know the first thing about clothing or even own a print shop. CafePress allows You to create a range of clothing with your own logo/image on it creating a brand. You can easily set up a online shop within a few minutes CafePress will print, charge, and deliver the product to your customer giving you no risk and the percentage of the earnings.

43. Pod Cast Review Marketing – This method is similar to the youTube method. Creating a Pod Cast can be quick and easy and a great way of getting your message to a wide audience. With this method you review a product or service and send your listeners to cloaked affiliate URLs to the relevant website for the product service you are reviewing, but remember it needs to be a short and easy to remember URL as the listener needs to type the URL into the browser. Over time this method can turn into a automated income stream as your pod casts portfolio increases.

44. Begging - I know this sounds silly but asking for a donation on your website and be a great way of making any extra income. If you haven’t valuable content on your website and provided a good service your readers are more likely to donate. How to websites seem to be the most successful with a donation tactics as you are providing the reader with some thing they have been looking for. PayPal Is the easiest method of setting up the Donation on your site.

45. Creating a online radio station - again this is similar to the Pod Cast and youTube method. On your radio station play your music as any radio station would but in between each song speak a few line advert like “ iPhone 3G is out why not go to www.blahblah.com/iphone for more details with 10% off” because it’s an online radio station hopefully the listener will type into their browser the cloaked affiliate URL.

46. Google Adwords – A quite common way of making money using Google Adword is by posting again cloaked affiliate URLs to the Adword system using keywords related to the product who are trying to sell. You have to be good at keyword analysing otherwise this could cost you money, but done successfully can reap very high rewards.

47. Yahoo Publisher Network - Remember Google is not the only search engine out there, Yahoo also offers their own version of Adwords and you can make a good living just concentrating on the Yahoo network as there may not always be as much competition for keywords.

48. Selling digital products - currently the most easiest way of selling digital products online is using a service called ClickBank. Using this service you can sell your own or other people’s digital products. ClickBank can have very high rewards for people who choose to sell other peoples Digital products anywhere up to 75%. But you can also use ClickBank to sell your own digital products such as software and Ebooks you may have created.

49. Online Stock Photography - are you any good at photography? You own a good camera? If so there are many websites out there that will let you post your images on their for others to purchase. The stock website can be and are main income streams for many budding photographers.

50. Play Computer Games - Like playing computer games? There’s money in computer gaming. Top players get paid very well for participating in tournaments, attending gaming fests and endorsing products Anybody can make a few hundred bucks a week from this method you just need to do some research in to it.

51. Adult entertainment – Do you like dressing up all kinky? Do it front of a webcam and adult web-cam websites will pay you. Like chatting dirty? Are you a balding man who likes pretending to be an 18-year-old blond, female model? Basically this is the online equivalent of the premium rate phone lines is where you can earn money all day just having fun.

52. Become a estate agent – not a real one a virtual one, in places like the USA it can be quite tricky but in the UK and the rest of Europe you can set up as a “Buyers Agent”and charge 1-3% of the value of the property. Websites like RightMove.co.uk are a great place to advertise your clients property.

53. Become a Researcher – becoming a researcher can be quite easy with websites like answers.com people pay you to go research a answer to a question they don’t have time to answer themselves. For example “how do I choose the best video camera?” And all you have to do is post a quality answer and you get paid. Most of the answers are findable via Google.

54. Skype Prime - Do you have an expertise in the subject? Do you have a skill that other people will pay for? Well Skype prime could be a great money making solution for you, with Skype prime you sign up to the directory listing your skills and how much you charge the minute/hour. If somebody requires your skills and expertise in a subject they will contact you via Skype Prime and then you can give your expertise over Skype System. This is still in beta but has great potential.

55. Arbitrage/brokerage - Example of a pure arbitrage opportunity: For a while buying traffic via Google Adwords and sending that traffic to pages of little content and Google Adsense ads generated reasonable profits when done astutely. Sure, Adwords and Adsense are two sites of the same coin. But I did say you needed to be astute to recognise where the opportunities were and you need to test, test, test. There are still lots of contextual arbitrage opportunities about. Especially when you work across programs (e.g., buy traffic from MSN, sell to Yahoo).

56. Reseller Web Hosting – You don’t need to buy a lot of server hardware to provide a web hosting service. Many big hosting Sharp operators, thick hides companies allow “reseller” accounts where you sell hosting plans to customers and the hosting company will host them all for you under your Reseller account umbrella. You get to charge customers as much as you want. Some Resellers provide value added services and charge more for these. At places like WHT you’ll find that resellers sometimes sell their customers as a “bundle” i.e., you can pay some money to buy a reseller “business”.

57. Online Gambling – Gambling is a far cry from trading futures but a route to riches for many. No, not the traditional horse racing type of gambling where the only long term winner is the bookmaker. I’m talking gambling against other gamblers, I’m talking the numerous ways of gambling online. There are a many books and ebooks that claim to “teach you how to win”.

58. Professional Social Networking - Enjoy networking? Social networking Web 2.0 style? Make money with it. If you build up sufficient reputation in places like Digg / Twitter/ Stubleupon, people will start approaching you to start some buzz on their company or their new product. At one point Netscape offered top “Diggers” a sweetener os $1,000 to move over to their competing service.

59. Find Job’s for Friends – An easy way into the personal recruitment business. Know a friend looking for a particular job? Make the connection between friend and employer and you could get up to $5,000 for a few hours work there are many websites out there paying for making good quality job referrals.

60. Sell for computers unused processing time – Get paid for your unused computer cycles. Is your computer sometimes on while you aren’t actually sitting at it? Then it’s using electricity but not performing “work”. Joining a distributed computing group like SETI lets you use that computing power to help reach some worthy/unworthy goal. However, you can also use those cycles to earn money by selling them to companies who have large computing tasks then can’t do completely in-house.