Update at Site on Article Writing

Just finished updating my review of the article writing companies Associated Content and Constant Content. How it basically works is that these companies pay you to write articles. Associated content publishes the articles written on their website and pays based on how many people visit the article. Constant Content, on the other hand, servers more as a listing for others to purchase articles and for authors to sell them. Personally, I really like this way of earning money online and encourage everyone to utilize these organiztions. The link is below, visit for my further review.

http://makemoneyonlinereview.freehostia.com/ArticleWriting.html

Freelance Jobs

There are a number of sites around that offer freelance jobs, most of which can be completed online. Many of these jobs are computer orientated, along the lines of website building or advertisement designs.

This particular method of making money online seems more likely to be able to support someone as a job, but to do so you must prove consistently to whoever has placed the freelance job that you are the right person.

iFreelance

Pros:

• A lot of jobs listed
• Most jobs, if not all, may be done from home
• Jobs pay pretty good amounts, from $250 to $10,000
• Fairly easy to use
• Category selection for different job types
• Good ranking system

Cons:

• The bidding system means you may not get the job you apply for
• The less specific the skill set required for a job, the more competition for it.
• More of an IT/web design focus than anything else

Overall:

oDesk

Pros:

• Reputable and award-winning business
• Free to use for providers (employees), oDesk makes money by charing 10% surcharge to buyers (employers)
• Skill test system which enables application to different jobs as you learn more by yourself
• Available for people in many countries
• Allows establishment of own desired hourly rate
• Easy to use

Cons:

• Allegations of being overly intrusive, though admittedly less monitoring than most jobs
• Work diary feature requires extra effort on behalf of the employee
• Huge amount of providers to compete with
• Most of the work (90%) is hour based pay
• The software takes snapshots of your desktop six times an hour to keep track of you
• Requires some intrusive information, such as phone number and address
• Many of the jobs have a technical leaning, such as IT skills or marketing
• Can take some time to get set up

Overall:

Quite possibly the most reliable way of getting an online job but the system seems excessively intrusive.

Online Tutoring

Online tutoring works by hiring teachers for the online learning environment. The jobs in this tend towards being either worldwide learning institutions or learning institutions delivering teaching to regional areas with large gaps between students. As a general rule, it seems formal qualifications in teaching are required in order to be a successful applicant for online tutoring jobs.

Also, it seems that a minimum of a broadband internet connection is required to participate in online tutoring, alongside speaking hardware such as a headset.

Creation Careers

Pros:

• Organized and reliable, a serious organization
• Requires no fee to apply

Cons:

• United Kingdom only
• Requires qualifications relative to the field in question

Overall:

Tutor Vista

Pros:

• A reputable organization
• Can be done part time (4 to 9 hours a day)
• Accept international applicants
• Many subjects available to tutor in
• Engineers may not need very high qualifications
• Organization supplies training

Cons:

• Based in India and may help to secure reputation of an unknown Indian brand (seems like a minor issue to me)
• Is not freelance, the work hours are prescheduled
• Requires at least a degree, expected to be a masters and some teaching experience
• Due to it being an international service, teaching hours can be quite uncomfortable (late night, possibly)
• Cannot just come and go, commitment required.

Overall:

Probably best for teaching students looking to make some money alongside continuing their education or for those with teaching qualifications not looking to leave home. Engineers are in demand so are at advantage.

Aim for A

Pros:

• Requires no initial payment to register or apply
• Seems quite reputable
• Busy, in demand

Cons:

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in the subject you wish to tutor
• Some teaching experience expected
• Time Zone differences can create odd work hours

Overall:

My Tutor

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Paid Online Surveys

One interesting way of making money online is to participate in paid surveys. How this generally works is you make a log in to a paid survey site, participate in surveys which are each worth a certain amount of money and after you get over a threshold value you can order payment.

My personal experience with these survey companies is that they are not particularly good for making money, the surveys can be quite boring and are too infrequent to form any kind of income stream. I suppose anything is better than nothing, though.

Ciao Surveys

Pros:

• Easy to use
• Surveys do not take as long as suggested
• A lot of chances to take surveys (for me in Australia)
• System to increase survey opportunities by giving more information

Cons:

• Surveys generally only give about $1 payment
• Payment system can be a little confusing at first
• If you crash during a survey, it counts as completing it but you do not get paid and cannot retake it

Overall:

• Made about $4 in two weeks.
• Surveys offer more depending on your situation, those with family and job get highest

SurveySavvy

Pros:

• Easy to use
• Portrait system which increases your offers

Cons:

• Asks for some information during registration that it should not need
• So far, not so many offers (for me in Australia).

Overall:

• So far uncertain whether they are going to offer surveys.

Advertising vs Affiliate Programs

There are probably no short amount of people new to web entrepreneurial activities who are wondering just what the difference is between these two ways of making money, or possibly unaware of what affiliate programs are. Herein I will discuss the two by first writing about the difference between them and then by discussing the results of pursuing one or the other.

The basic manner in which they both function is similiar, they both appear on your page and are meant to get the attention of people reading it, more often than not intending to get them to click the links. The difference is simple, though. When a website makes money by using advertisements they are paid to advertise a product, hence are paid based on either how many people click the advertisement or how many people view the page. When a website makes money based on affiliate programs, they are paid based on how many people buy the product in question after linking from their page. This brings up a number of potential issues from a money making approach and from a moral perspective.

The results of using affiliate programs on the whole tends to be better, from my observations, than using advertisements. The affiliate companies tend to pay quite a bit, ranging from $1 per person for signing up with a free account up to figures such as $1000 per person signing up for some paid club, such as a travel club. Clearly when compared to advertising, which would be pushing it to pay $1 for a click, affiliate programs offer the most but there is a cost involved. Morally, affiliate programs are troubling. This applies especially if your website is attempting at all to have some kind of neutrality. Afterall, if I review a product and pan it, then have a link under the review selling the same product with an affiliate link, less people are likely to buy it. Thus, it is in my benefit to positively review it, creating a clear bias. Most sites I have seen with affiliate links go out of their way to try and distort this bias, but it is always there.

Anyway, that is the essentially difference between the two. Affiliate links offer more money, but you have to sell yourself more to get it. The only exception I can see to this whole matter is if you like a product and deliberately seek to get an affiliate link to that very specific product. An example of this is an affiliate link to amazon, advertising a book you like and have reviewed. Still creaties a bit of bias, but perhaps more justifiable.

Why Other Money Making Web Reviewers Are Trash

Well my webpage and this blog have existed for roughly half a month and received little attention from the major search engines and even less from people in general, which I must admit is beginning to wear on me a little given the competition. Hence, herein I will discuss the flaws with other sites as they related to my frustration. However, before doing that I will discuss a certain definition which is key to the whole issue, the definition of the word "review".

To review means to appraise critically, to inspect, to analyze, to judge, to detail something with its positives and its negatives. Every last website I have read claiming to review ways of making money online is nothing more than a way of advertising them. Now not only do websites go this far and do this, they go further and actually include the profits they made by advertising for the company itself in the review. This includes making ridiculous claims such as "I make $500 a month doing paid surveys". NO YOU DO NOT, you make at most $50 a month from the surveys and the other $450 from directing traffic to their website via an affiliate link in which you get money for more people joining. It is a cruel, unfair lie that websites like this are running. Three times as cruel in this economic climate.

The first site that comes up in google when I enter the phrase "make money online review" is a site titled the web reviewer which is nothing more than a blatent attempt at selling products. I cannot see a single element of actual 'reviewing' going on here. I was going to go on and list the sites like this one, until I looked through the search engine results and remembered what had gotten me so annoyed in the first place: THEY ARE ALL LIKE THIS. All the same site claiming to review things, whilst actually advertising them shamelessly whilst my site remains struggling to be indexed.