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Ever wondered if those claims of earning thousands of dollars online are really legitimate? Want to earn money blogging and writing articles? Want to be your own boss? Most of us would jump at the chance to earn money from home.

It is infact, a legitimate way to earn money. Don’t expect to earn thousands of dollars in the first day, week or even month. Your chances of becoming a millionaire in your first year are also very unlikely.

However, if your determined to start up your own blogging ‘business’ and you don’t mind spending hours in front of your computer typing articles about topics you love, or blogging, posting and participating in surveys, then this article is for you!

It really is possible to make a lot of money online. After all, the majority of advertising companies rely on you and me to spread the word about their business and services, and they pay advertising companies thousands of dollars each month just to get their company noticed, so it’s only natural that we as bloggers would earn from this advertising.

The best way to get started is to sign up with a pay per click program. The most well known and best performing organisation of this type is Google Adsense. Google Adsense basically places ads onto your website or blog and if visitors click these ads  then you earn revenue. This is called Pay Per Click.

Most ads may earn you .20 cents per click or more. Of course, some may earn you much less than this, it all depends on your content and the competition for ads on your website/blog.

Google Adsense is a nice way of merging ads into your blog layout. It is non-intrusive, there is no flashing banners and its always content-related to maximise clicks.

There are other pay per click prorgrams similar to Google Adsense such as Chitika, yahoo (Overture). BlogAds and CrispAds. These programs all place content related ads onto your website or blog, and you earn a certain amount of revenue from each click that you receive on these ads.

You may not want, or have enough room for banner ads and side scraper ads. In this case your best option would be in-text advertising. In-text ads are ads that appear when you hover your mouse over a double underlined word in the content of your blog. When you put the ad code into your website/blog, it will pick some keywords and place a double underline on them. When people click these words and the ads that appear when you hover over the ads, you will get paid.

There are quite a few programs that you can use for In-text ads, such as: InfoLink, AdBrite, Kontera and many more.

When choosing In-text ads or banner ads you need to ensure it is all content related to your website/blog. The more relative your ads are to your website, the more revenue you will earn. If your article is interesting and there is an ad on your website offering more information on this topic, then your readers will surely click it. Opposed to the flashing banner advertisements with context relation what so ever.

If your not quite as interested in blogging daily or weekly, and you only want to do this occasionally, you probably shouldn’t expect too much revenue from your blog. The more active your blog is, the more traffic it can attract, and the more revenue you can expect.

Another way to make money online is by the use of writing articles for websites. There are many places that you  can do this, the most popular websites are Triond, Associated Content, Helium, Bukisa, Hubpages and Squidoo.

These websites reward you for page views. As the more page views you receive on your articles, the more revenue from ad clicks the website earns. So for instance, Helium pays you after you write a certain amount of articles and once you have a certain amount of page views. It is a little harder to earn however you have a fair amount of freedom on what you wish to write about. Also, Helium has a market place where magazines and journals advertise article topics they wish to publish and allow you to write an article about a topic of their choice. You can expect to receive anywhere from $5-$100 if your article gets chosen for the publication.

Squidoo also earns you money per page views and you have a large amount of freedom in what you can publish. You have to have your ‘lense’ as they call them, filled with great content to start earning money-not hard at all. Squidoo also allows you to link to your (and other’s) Ebay, Amazon, Flickr, Twitter, Blog RSS and more. So you can actually generate a HUGE amount of traffic from creating multiple lenses that point towards your blogs and websites. So you can earn two lots of revenue this way.

Triond is much like bukisa. They both allow you to publish articles of your choice and you earn revenue depending on the amount of page views you receive.

These are also great ways to direct traffic to your blogs and websites, and you earn revenue while writing about topics of your choice.

The trick to make the most of earning revenue from publishing articles is, you must constantly publish fresh articles. Ensure they are topics of popularity, and have interesting grab titles and abstracts. The more content you publish the more your articles will be seen by Google and other search engines, bringing your page view and search engine ranking up.

If your not interested in writing many articles or blogs, the next best option is to take part in online surveys.

If you sign up to paid surveys, SurveyLot, Yellow Surveys, Myopinions and more, you can receive surveys to take part in daily. Each survey can earn you either points towards a gift card or money. The range of money you can expect is anywhere from $1.00 to $5.00. This is not bad for 5 to 10 minutes work! You may not qualify for every survey that is emailed to you, however the more survey companies you join up to, the more chances you have of qualifying to complete surveys.

Another popular way of earning money online is through Ebay. You can buy for low and sell for a profit. There are many deals you can grab on Ebay. However this involves up front costs of buying products. You can also sell items around your home to earn enough to start buying and selling. There are plenty of wholesale websites that provide cheap items to sell on Ebay such as DHgate, lightinthebox.com and more.

You need to work hard and smart when you are working for yourself and you will need to dedicate a lot of time and effort into securing your weekly income. However, with the unlimited resources available to you online, you should have no problem in making an honest living on the internet.