Andy Coates Blog

To earn money online there are several different ways to do this and virtually anyone willing to dedicate a small amount of their time to the cause each day can begin to make money! Just like anything the amount of money you make is proportional to the amount of work you put in. The same goes for any cash you invest online, the higher the risk the bigger the potential reward could be but at the same time you could lose some ore even all of your initial investment. So to kick things off I will begin with the easiest but lowest paying first progressing onto the hardest with higher potential payouts!

Get paid for surfing the internet

This is one of the easiest ways to earn money online, Agloco is a company who will pay you a percentage of their advertising income whilst you surf the internet. The whole process is pretty straight forward and does not affect your web browsing in any way, all you need to do is Sign Up for an account, download the "Viewbar" and continue surfing the internet. The toolbar displays tiny text ads at the bottom of you page and each hour you surf is logged by Agloco, once the company has calculated the profit form the advertising revenue you will be paid a share depending on the amount of hours you have accumulated. Check it out HERE

Get paid for clicking on adverts

This is a very slow way to earn money online though handled correctly it can net a reasonable income. Basically you sign up for an account with one of the 100's of company's offering "Paid to Click" accounts,click on the adverts you receive via email or on the particular websites each day and you will be paid a TINY amount for each click! The only way to make any reasonable money from this is to only sign up with PTC sites who offer referral schemes so this means for each person who joins these sites through YOUR referral link, you will receive money for each of their clicks! So to make money without the effort you need to get about at least 99 people to sign up through your referral code so they do 99% of the clicking. To try these out check out these schemes Adbux (pays 1 cent per click) Archer Fish

Get Paid For Completing Surveys

This is pretty straight forward but can be quite time consuming and the payouts tend to be quite low. There are many sites out there offering to pay you for completing surveys so instead of giving a direct link its best doing a Google search for your country. Most tend to offer gift vouchers rather than cold hard cash but sometimes you can get some good offers though these usually get snapped up pretty quickly!

Get paid for displaying adverts on your website

This is where you can begin to earn some reasonable money, your not going to get rich overnight unless you win the lottery but it is a great place to begin! First of all you need a website, you can choose one for the free hosted options such as Wordpress or Blogger but if you are serious about making a reasonable amount of cash on the internet I'd recommend getting some web hosting and running a self hosted blog. I use Streamline for hosting and Wordpress as my blogging platform which has been a superb combination, this gives me total control over my site and advertisers will take you more seriously when you have your own domain name!

Money4Banners
On particular offer which I love is from Money4Banners where you can get paid £10 just for signing up and £5 each month just for displaying 3 banner adverts on your website! Also to make more money from Money for banners check out this post

Text Link Ads
Another similar but different!? offer is by Text link Ads, you get paid a flat monthly fee for displaying a text link on your website. The qualifying process is a little harder than Money4Banners as you need a reasonably good Alexa Rating and the adverts are priced depending on this and your sites pagerank it may take a while to get your site qualified though its well worth the persistence and effort if your serious about making money online. To sign up and submit you site to Text link Ads click here.

AdSense
One of the most popular methods for monetizing your website is signing up for a Google AdSense account and displaying adverts on your website. Each time one of the adverts which you display on your website is clicked you are paid a percentage of the advertising fee. All you need to do is sign up for an AdSense account and start displaying adverts on your website.

AdSense income relies on getting allot of traffic to your website which you can slowly build up over a period of several week/months of blogging, in essence the more targeted traffic to you blog the more potential AdSense earnings. Check out my post How to profit from AdSense for a more in depth look!

This is just a quick look and a few ideas about how you can make money online, this is not a get rich quick scheme but if you contribute a small amount of your time each day to making money online you can make a substantial income in the long term to find out about the benefits of long term blogging read my post The importance of persistence in blogging success .