Are there real ways to make money online?

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There are actually a ton of ways to make money online, but all require study research and hours in front of your computer. Lets start with the basics. You may already know this part.

The most lucrative way to make money online is affiliate marketing. There are two schools of affiliate marketing:

SEO Marketing: SEO stands for "Search Engine Optimization". The idea is to get your website or blog to rank at the top of search engine results for certain keywords related to a specific niche (golf, weight loss, etc..). That requires quality content and lots of links pointing to your website. Once your website is ranking well, you place affiliate links for related products on the website.

PPC Marketing: PPC stands for "Pay Per Click". This method can generate a profit much faster than SEO marketing. It has greater earning potential, but greater risk. For this method you buy clicks from search engines and websites. This guarantees instant traffic. However your website must convince people to click your affiliate links and take action, or you will quickly lose money paying for clicks.

If you dont like affiliate marketing, you could try writing articles. Associate content will pay you $5 - $7 for short articles on niche topics. A fast way to produce these articles, is to rewrite existing articles in your own words. You can do that quickly by using text-to-speech software. Just read the article once silently, then explain it in your own words into your microphone. The software writes the new article for you. You can do about 10 articles an hour after you get good at it.

You can get paid to submit surveys. To make this profitable you can use software such as Roboform to fill out common survey fields with a single click.

You can make money with Incentivized Freebie Websites (IFW). People will pay you to sign-up for free trials. The IFW's get paid by advertisers for any person that completes the advertisers offer(s), which are found on the IFW's website. The IFW passes this payment onto you in the form of a prize or cash award. I tried this and was averaging about $25 / hour. If I had used roboform and gotten faster, I think it could be more. After you have signed up for enough offers, you can then get bigger payouts, which allows you to pay others to do the grunt work.

The above shows you just a few of the possibilities if you're creative. You just have to believe it's possible and stick with one thing until you figure out how to make it profitable. If other people are still doing it, there must be a way to make it work. Just make sure your info is current. There is a lot of useless out of date info floating around the internet. People are still selling 3 year old ebooks. In the online world that's ancient. Things are always changing. Adapting.

Beware of ebooks and "courses" that promise you will "get rich" or make larges sums of money. These "gurus" will offer little support, and continuously try to upsell you the missing pieces of the puzzle.