If you are like a lot of people and have come to a place in your life that you want to find a way to either supplement your regular income or replace it and work full time from home, you probably want to look into the possibility of making money online. A number of people make money online using a variety of methods. Some of these methods are widely known and some are not. By far, the most widely known methods of making money online are either through selling something, like in an auction or from a website, or running a website that relies on pay per click advertisements. Another way to make money online is by performing tasks or projects for website owners or other online entrepreneurs. It may surprise you though to know exactly what people will pay you to do online.
Some of the things people will pay you to do online:
Paid Blog Posting
If you already own a blog or are looking to start one, there is money to be made through paid blog posting. If your blog has a certain amount of traffic, page rank, or popularity, there are people that will pay you money to post a review of their website on your blog.
Forum Moderator
Many of the larger and more active forums require people to patrol the various threads deleting spam and enforcing forum rules. Some forums pay cash to their moderators while others offer some sort of trade or services in trade for this task being done.
Write Articles
There are a number of people that own their own websites and would like to promote them using articles submitted to article directories, but they lack either the ability or free time to write the articles. In these cases, some are willing to pay you to write articles about the subjects they choose.
Forum Posting
Many forum owners, especially owners of new or expanding forums, actually pay people to post threads and replies to threads in their forum. The idea is that the paid forum posters post threads that make the forum appear to be active so that other visitors to the site will get involved in discussions and keep coming back.
Virtual Farming
There are many online games that use virtual currency as their economic base. There are people willing to pay you to “farm” money or items from the game and then sell these virtual items to you in exchange for real money that you can use in the real world.
Video Game Testing
Most beta testers of video games do it for free, but there are paid jobs out there. They are not easy to come by and they are highly coveted by fans of video games.
Broker Domains
If you know something about the domain name market and can navigate the various online forums and other sites that revolve around the selling of domain names, or especially if you have good contacts with domain name buyers, people will pay you a commission to sell their domain names for them. This is also true for people interested in selling their developed websites.
Sell Stuff
Many people would like to sell their stuff on popular online sites like eBay, but they either don’t have the free time or the knowledge of how to go about doing it. These people will pay you either a flat fee or a percentage of the realized price to sell these items for them.
Graphic Design
Many website owners and developers have great ideas for websites and content, but lack the ability to design an attractive header or other graphics that are to be part of the site. They will pay you to design their graphic headers, logos, and other images for them.
Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and others are very popular. Getting their sites bookmarked in these bookmarking sites is sometimes valuable to a website owner. If you have accounts at the many social bookmarking sites, many will pay you to submit their sites to your bookmarks.
Programming And Coding
If you have the ability to write various types of codes like PHP, HTML, Javascript, or others, there are people that will pay you to write custom codes for the construction of their website.
Various Installations
From time to time, web developers need to install various scripts or applications onto their web space to make their sites run better or to run the way they want them to. Many developers lack the skill or knowledge to make these installations and will pay you to do it for them.
Directory Submissions
Many website owners find themselves too busy developing their site or new sites to submit their sites to the various online directories that are in use. They will pay you to do these submissions for them.
If there is a task that you can do online, there is almost assuredly someone out there that is willing to pay you to do it. This is especially true if the task in question will benefit someone with a website to promote. The trick is finding where to go to get these kinds of jobs and the best places to go are webmaster forums. People are waiting to pay you to do some surprising things online, if you don’t take them up on it… someone else will.
blogging for paid, hehe I like it!
Comment by web about — August 23, 2008 @ 6:49 am