200+ free ways of making money online

 

 

200+ free ways of making money online

It baffles me when people say that they find it difficult to make money online. When you browse through the internet, you will see people asking the same old question-' how will I make money online?'. In this writing, I will share some ways you can use to make money online. Secondly, I review some legitimate sites that you can use to make money online. I have used most of the websites to generate income. During the time am writing this content, all the sites mentioned here are legit and pays on time. As you know, legitimate sites can turn to scam overnight, therefore be careful and play at your own risk.

    I will classify these websites into categories, at lest to make this content look matured and tidy. Moreover, to help you identify areas you may have interest with easy. Let's start;

Article and revenue sharing sites

     Article and revenue sharing sites have been my major source of income online. Since inception of internet, many online entrepreneurs are using content sites to generate income until Google come up with panda. Google panda have disseminated many writing sites into oblivion. Why am saying this? It is no more lucrative to publish anything and expect content sites to publish it under their platform. Only high quality content survives in the present day internet. If you want your article or content to get better ranking you must optimize it.

   Moreover, remaining revenue sharing sites don't accept any kind of content especially low quality and spam-related contents. Therefore, if you want to make money through writing articles, you must produce quality and information enriched contents.

1. Hubpages.com

     Hubpages is the indisputable king of article and content generating sites. Hubpages have over a thousand writers publishing contents on their platform. According to Alexa ranking, hub pages is ranked 2456 globally and 2209 in United states on 25th of august 2016.

    Hubpages is very strict and don't accept low quality content. Moreover, you must follow their guideline perfectly before your work will published.

    One great advantage of hub-pages is that you can make through diverse channels. You earn money through adsense ad campaign, eBay and amazon affiliate network. You can still make money through their ad program.

2. Infobarrel.com

    Infobarrel is second to Hubpages in terms of popularity and  income generation. This site is similar to hub-pages in functionality and features. You can make money in the site through adsense, amazon and eBay etc.

3.Bukisa.com

     Bukisa is another site you can use to make money online. Recently, Bukisa revamp their site after Google panda hit. Bukisa also change their payment model. Now, you only earn income through adsense ratio of 60/40 in favor of the writer.

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4.Wizzley.com

      Wizzley.com is a new site with a lot of highly optimized features. Wizzley is very simple to manage unlike Hubpages and Infobarrel where you will encounter a lot of confusing features. The site is becoming increasing popular among writers and content producers because of its simplicity and robust traffic.

    Wizzley include a lot revenue generating channels in their website. You can earn percentage of advertisement revenue from adsense, chikita, eBay, amazon etc.

5.Wikinut.com

    Wikinut is not very popular but many writers are using the site to generate residual income. One great feature of Wikinut is that you can republish content you publish in other websites in their website. Wikinut's payment threshold is very low around £5.

6. Xomba.com

Xomba is one of the revenue sharing sites that survives Google panda updates. Xomba is now very strict in accepting contents. If your content is not engaging and informative, they will reject it. Moreover, they are no more paying writers. You can only make money through Google adsense advert and other affiliate program.

7. Expertscolumn.com

   The site accept all kind of content and they accept writers from all over the world. Expertscolumn still use pay per view ( around $3.15 per a thousand unique view) as their payment method. They pay once you reach $5

 The site accept all kind of contents. Moreover, the site still use pay per view ( around $3 per thousand unique view). They pay once you reach $5. Unlike most sites, expertcolumn did not integrate Google adsense in their platform. Therefore, if you don't have Google adsense account, you can make money with expertcolumn.

8. Flixya.com

    A very popular revenue sharing website. Flixya is a lot of things rolled inside one. Flixya is not only content sharing website but a social networking site with very active members. You can share any kind of content on the site but video and pictures get more traction. Moreover, you can integrate adsense account with your Flixya account.

9. Snipsly.com

   Snipsly accept all kind of content. Moreover, they accept content producers from all over the world. The site give writers guideline that will help them produce contents that have great earning potentials. The site moderators are very friendly and can respond to your questions very fast. You only make money through Google adsense in the ratio of 80/20 in the favor of the writer. The only disadvantage of using snipsly is that they did not integrate other money making channels in their site.

10. TipDrop.com

 Tipdrop is a micro blogging platform where you can publish tips about anything you can think of. Tipdrop have simple template and features that makes publishing very interesting. The site use what they call tipsheet credibility to score your content. Tipdrop is highly selective in terms of type of content you summit. If your content is not about tips and how to do things, it will be rejected. You make money only through Google adsense ad revenue.

11. Knoji.com ( factoidz)

    Knoji is formerly known as factoidz. The site only accept quality content with no grammatical errors. They have hundreds of professional writers writing for the site. Presently, you must summit your work sample and wait for approval. Approval can last up to five working days.

    Knoji is one of the few sites that still pay upfront for high quality contents. You can generate income through diverse channels especially through commission and page views.

12. Redgage.com

     Redgage is a very colourful and properly designed site. The site accept all kind of content including videos etc. Redgage pay their content producers once they $5 .

13. Storymash.com

     If you are good at story telling, you can make money with it at storymash.com. Storymash is a community of fiction writers and readers. One advantage of the site is that their payment threshold is very low ($2). Moreover, the site is a nurturing ground for amateur writers. There, you will see professional writers that will give you constructive advice and assist you in developing better writing skills.

14. Oondi.com

   Oondi is another google adsense based revenue sharing site. The site give writers oppournity to earn 100% adsense ad revenue. The site is very easy to navigate and publish content. Moreover, the site use to give writers and content publishers specific guideline on how to write quality content and the type of content in great demand.

Make money with video and pictures

    Visual contents have revolutionize the internet. Internet users are shifting their attention to video and pictures than textual content. Thousands of visual contents are uploaded on internet on daily basis. More than 35,000 videos are uploaded on daily basis on YouTube. Pictures are equally trending. There are tons of websites that are purposely created for picture sharing and generation.

    Now, let us review some visual content websites where you can make money;

1. YouTube.com

   YouTube is the king of video streaming sites. According to Alexa, YouTube receive more than 1 billion unique views in a month. The site have become a sort of market place. A lot of entrepreneurs and marketers are using You-tube to market and sell their product.

    Moreover, youtubers are making passive income by uploading videos. Some youtubers are making more than $1,000 on daily basis.

 YouTube pay video creators by numbers of page view ( pay per view). The average rate of PPV is around $1.50.

2. Dailymotion.com

     Dailymotion is another video sharing sites where you can make money. Dailymotion is second to Youtube in popularity and Alexa ranking. You can make money through three different options in the site. You can make money as a partner and receive 50% revenue that come through advertisement. Secondly, you can make money by embelling other people's video in your site. Thirdly, you can make money by selling video.

3. Break.com

 Break.com is a website that specialize in buying and selling visual content especially video. Break.com also give pubishers oppouurnity to upload pictures. If you are good in making good videos, break.com may be what you need to make money online. Break.com pays up to $2000 if your video make it to their front page.

4. Metacafe.com

 Metacafe is another video sharing site with huge base of online users. Thousands of online users flock to the site on daily basis. Metacafe pay $5 per 1000 views.

Blogging

   Blogging have redefined the way we express ourselves online and interact with online communities. Blogging have become intricate part of online activity. Thousands of blogs are created annually and the prospect is ever expanding. Nowadays, people are making money through their blogs. In fact, blogging is one of the most lucrative way of making money online. There are bloggers that are making six figure income through blogging.

How to make money blogging.

 There are different methods you can use to make money with blogging. I will list some of the ways here, to help us in classification of websites;

1. Advert placement

2. Pay to post

3. Build and sell blog

4. Commission from sells

Advert placement

Advert placement is the major way most bloggers make money. There are many advertisement companies or ad networks that bloggers use to make money. However, these ad network mostly accept blogs with quality and heavy traffic. If your blog is newly established with poor traffic, it may be difficult to be accepted in ad networks platforms. Therefore, before applying, optimize your blog and attract quality traffic.

   Here are some of the ad networks that will pay you for integrating their ads in your blog.

1. Google adsense.com

     Google adsense is very popular among bloggers. In fact, many bloggers are making thousands of dollars on daily basis through adsense. However, google adsense hardly accept blogs that are not properly optimised. Secondly, Google adsense is very strict and can ban an account at slightest provocation.

Read more about how to make money Google adsense here

2. Revenuehits.com

 Revenuehit is another ad network that does not put traffic level of your blog into serious consideration. Revenuehit payout threshold is very low around $20.

3. Revcontent.com

  Revcontent is for established blogs with high page rank. The ad network uses a lot of parameters to determine the quality of a site that want to join their network.

4. Media.net

 Media.net is a world class ad network and hardly accet blogs nowadays. One advantage of media.net have over other ad network is the simpicity of ad integration in websites and blogs.

5. Bidvertiser.com

     Bidvertiser's reputation and payout have dropped since last few years. There have been a lot negative reviews from publishers of late.

6. Clicksor.com

 Clicksor is an average ad network, preferably for newbies. Moreover, clicksor have over 1000 publishers in their platform. Now, clicksor have to review your site before giving you access to join their network. Secondly, it may take long to be approved by the network. Moreover, clicksor is not responsive. It takes days for them to reply your email or if they will reply at all.

7. Adsterra.com

    Adsterra is one of the most trusted ad network by publishers and advertisers alike. Adsterra is one of fastest growing ad network in the industry. Adsterra is serving over 10 billion impression monthly. Moreover, the network is one of the highest paying in the industry. Adsterra use most of the popular payment processors.

8. Popmyad.com

    Popmyad.com started in 2011 and have become a major player in the ad network industry. The ad network specialize in pop under advertising. Popmyad.com does not put traffic into consideration unlike most ad networks. Popmyad.com accepts all niche websites except child pornography and abusive contents.

9. Propellerad.com

    Propellerad.com is another ad industry that have sound reputation though they hardly accept new blogs. Propeller ad offer various ad formats both for web and mobile advertising. If your website have quality traffic, you can give propellerad a trial.  Propellerad minimum payout is high($10).

10. https://fidelity-media.com/

     Fidelity media started in 2007 and they are one of the pioneers of online ad network. Though, the network have been declining in popularity because of their strignant guidelines and 'hard to please' attitude. Fidelity media is for medium and high traffic websites. Moreover, it take long to be accepted in the network. It may take more than 2-3 working days.
    The ad network use to set benchmark for their publishers and if you fail to meet up, your account will be terminated. According to their website, 'you must deliver more than 10,000 banners impression for the first 30days of joining the network. As you can see, Fidelity is for serious and highly dedicated publishers.

Buying and selling websites and blogs.

   Flipping websites and blogs is one of the most lucractive way of making money online. One great advantage of flipping is that you may not have technical skill in website management before starting flipping business. Though, having necessary skill in building website can be a great advantage but not a requirement. About 60 % of website flippers don't have basic knowledge about how to design websites.
    Flipping websites is almost the same thing as trading stock. Flipping involves buying websites at cheap rate and sell at higher price. If you have ability to identify websites with great market value, you can easily make money with flipping websites. You can read more about flipping, strategies and methods at
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Below are some of online marketplace where you can buy and sell websites.

1. Flippa.com

   Flippa is the best and one of the largest website flipping marketplace. Average of 150,000 websites are listed on monthly basis. Flippa have grown so large that it now focuses more on well established sites. Though, you will see small and medium sites listed in flippa.
    Flippa is highly competitive with thousands of websites varying for attention. As a newbie in website flipping business, you may find it difficult to breakthrough. My advice is to start with less competitive flipping sites.

2. Warriorforum.com

    Warrior forum, the world number one internet marketing forum have a marketplace for buying and selling websites. One great advantage of freemarket is that warrior forum take only 5% commission when you buy or sell a website. Secondly, they don't charge flippers for listing sites in their platform.

3. Empireflippers.com

    Empireflippers is another flipping site with good reputation. Unlike flippa, empireflippers use to crosscheck and vet sites listed in their marketplace. Definitely, you will see a lot of quality sites listed there.

4.Digitalpoint forum

   Digitalpoint forum is another marketplace I so much love. You can sell site easily in DP if the site have quality. the

Crowdsourcing or micro job sites

    Crowdsourcing is becoming a mainstream method people use to make money online. Thousands of online workers are using crowdsourcing sites to make money online. Though, micro jobs doesn't pay much but it can be rewarding if you dedicate your time to it. Crowdsourcing use to be very simple and can take no time to complete.
   Here are few sites that are legit and pay on time.

1. Mturk.com

     Mturk is the best of all crowdsourcing sites. Mturk is from stable of amazon.com. Unlike most crowdsourcing sites, mturk have hundreds of sites available on their websites on daily basis. There are many online entrepreneurs that are making hundreds of dollars monthly on mturk. One disadvantage of Mturk is that it is only for United states residents.

2. Microworkers.com

   Microworkers is another site that is legitimate and very popular. The site use to have hundreds of job available on their platform but not like Mturk.com. Microworkers is one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing and they are still going strong.
   Microworkers payment verification is very stressful and takes a lot of time. Microworkers use traditional mail to verify your identity before sending payment.

3. Rapidworkers.com

     Rapidworkers is another crowdsourcing site that is legit and pay workers on time. It is similar to microworkers in features and funtionality. Rapidworkers.com pay workers through paypal and their payout is $4.

 

 

2. Samasource.org

    Is a crowdsourcing site created to help underprivilege youth and women to make money through internet. Samasource give their prospective workers basic training that will help them to do the work perfectly. The site have over 600,000 workers globally.

3. Clickworker.com

    Clickworkers have a very simple site that is very easy to navigate. According to the site, it have over 700,000 workers in their platform. Clickworker.com use to do assessment test for prospective workers. They use the test to determine the type of work you can be able to do perfectly.

4.Shortask.com

    Shortask is another crowdsourcing site that is making waves in the industry. Shortask is evolving into a kind of freelancing site with thousands of workers making money on daily basis.

    Shortask categorize their task into four major types

1. Research

2. Data entry

3. Writing

4. Design

5. Jobboy.com

   Jobboy is a new site and it doesn't have enough task in their platform. Jobboy is legit and pays on time.

6. Crowdsource.com

     Crowdsource mostly specialize in writing related jobs like editing, proofreadiing, blog posts e
tc. One advantage of crowdsource is that you get paid the same day you finished the task. Recently, crowdsource revamp their site and improved a lot of functionalities.

7. Minijobz.com

   There have been a lot of negative review about the site of late

8. Crowdtap.com

    Crowdtap is more of survey and freebie site. You get reward for your opinion and ideas. The site hardly pay their workers with cash. They use product samples, gift cards, vouchers etc to compensate their workers.

9. Prolificacademic.com

    Prolificacademic is new and not popular among crowdsourcing ethusiatics. The crowdsourcing platform is specially created for research-related tasks. Most of the tasks in prolific comes in form of surveys. I believe that is reason most bloggers and writers use to list the site among survey sites.
  Prolific academic use paypal as their payment p
rocessor and they have include moneybrooker recently. Moreover, the site payment threshold is £5

Pay to blog

   Pay to blog is one of the most lucrative ways of making money online. Thousands of bloggers are making passive income through this method. Pay to blog is not the same thing as producing content for article sites though closely related. One advantage of pay to blog is that you have full right over your content and blog. In pay to blog, you have to create your blog and manage it unlike in content sites. Though in exceptional cases, some blogging platform can give you free blog and have some control over it. In pay to blog or post, a blogger only have to integrate his/her blog to the blogging platform. Another advantage of pay to blog or post is that you have diverse ways you can use to make money. Some of the ways include;
1. Review of product and services.
2. Ad placement
3. Press release.
   Pay to blog give bloggers limitless oppournity to make money without following stringent rules and terms of their pay masters. In blogging, bloggers defines the business terms. secondly, bloggers are not easily exploited like in revenue sharing websites.

 You can read these following articles if you want to learn more about pay to blog;
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Here are few of many pay to blog platform where you can make money with your blog;

1. Sponsoredreview.com

  Sponsored review is one of the largest blogging community, with thousands of blogs in their platform. Nowadays, sponsored review hardly accept new blogs with low traffic. Moreover, your blog must have quality contents and large audience before you will be accepted in their platform.

2. Payperpost.com

   Pay per post is another big player in blogging business. The site have thousands of bloggers in their platform. Some bloggers earn more than $1500 monthly. The website work like a freelancing site though you don't bid for jobs. The site allow advertisers to choose bloggers they want to work with. Payperpost simply act as an intermediary between bloggers and advertisers.
   Payperpost accept blogs with high PR and heavy traffic.

3. Seedingup.com

    Seedingup.com is a great platform for bloggers to make extra income through their blog. The website only accept high notched blogs into their platform. Seedingup is formerly known as teliad.com.
   After approval, you have to wait for booking. If your blog have quality content and good traffic, you can easily make over $500 monthly. Now, the site have included affiliate services in their site. Therefore, you will receive some percentage when somebody buys through affiliate links in your blog.

4. Socialspark.com

     Socialspark.com was created and managed by Ted Murphy and IZEA. Some bloggers make up to $30-$60 per post. Moreover there are different methods you can use to make money on the site like pay per post, commission on sales,referral, bonus etc.
   The site don't accept new blogs with poor traffic.

5. Blogvertise.com

    Blogvertise is another pay per post platform that is making waves in the industry. Once approved you are sure to get writing tasks consistently. In the platform, you can make money through diverse method. You can even be paid to add links to your existing posts.

5. Blogtoprofit.com
    Blogtoprofit simply connect bloggers to advertisers. The site have a very vibrant marketplace with hundreds of advertisers.

6. Creative-weblogging.com

   Creative webloggong is one of the largest blog network. The blogging platform also accept blogs in five different languages. Creative weblogging is highly selective and don't accept new blogs with poor reputation.

7. Digital journal.com

  Digital journal is a huge network and highly diversified. The site is more like a revenue sharing site. They don't pay bloggers through pay per post model. The site use undisclosed method to share revenue income among bloggers in their network.
 Moreover, digital journal use to give amateur bloggers space to grow and learn.

8. Bloggerwave.com

   Bloggerwave is another pay per post platform with huge marketplace. Bloggerwave have top class bloggers that are making hundreds of dollars monthly through the site.

9. About.com

   This blogging platform is very flexible and don't give bloggers time frame to finish their work. Bloggers set their schedule and work without pressure.

Freelancing

 Freelancing is another way online entrepreneurs and writers make money. There are many websites that can help freelancers make money online
  If you want to make money with freelancing, I will advice to read some of these blogs I listed here for more information
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Here are some of the top freelancing sites;

1. Upwork.com

    Upwork is two freelancing portal merged into one. Upwork is formerly known as Elance. Recently, the company acquired Odesk making it the largest freelancing portal with over 6 million users. Upwork is highly diversified freelancing site with any kind of job you can think of.

2. Fiverr.com

Fiverr is a micro freelancing site. The site is becoming increasingly popular among freelancers. One advantage of fiverr is it is cost effective and you can sell any type of gig on rate of $5. Recently, some freelancers have started to increase their gig value in multiple of 5.

3. Toptal.com

     Toptal is a new fast growing freelancing site. Toptal is very robust with highly qualified freelancers on their platform. Toptal is very strict in term of accepting prospective freelancers into their platform. The site use to test and screen their applicants. About 90 percent of prospective freelancers use to fail their rigorous test. Secondly, if a freelancer fail to reach their expectation, his/her account will be terminated immediately.

4. Aquent.com

     Aquent is a new freelancing site with very friendly management. Aquent use to give freelancers basic online training on freelancing and tips on how to succeed in the business.
   Moreover, Aquent.com accept freelancers from all over the globe without discrimination.

5. Guru.com

 Guru have been in freelancing business over a decade and still going strong. Guru.com use to display freelancer's portfolio for employers to ascertain the capacities and skills of a freelancer. This can be a heavy disadvantage to newbies who have nothing to show about.

6. Peer hustle.com

 Peer hustle is a new freelancing site  with a very active marketplace. The site is highly innovative wot of great tools that makes freelancing very engaging. Peer hustle have an  on-demand app that makes customers can use to interactive with freelancers.  Moreover, another benefit of using peer hustle is that they review any job done for their customers and make sure they receive the best.
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Survey

Survey have become one of the lucrative ways people use to make money online. Moreover, survey is very simple and anybody can participate and make money. There are hundreds of survey sites online and you can utilize the oppournity to make money online.

Caution!- while survey is very attractive means of making money online, it is a channel more prone to scammers and spammers.

Here are some survey sites that I have used to make money online;

1. Swagbucks.com

   Swagbuck is a very reliable survey and reward site and have been in business over a decade. One factor that makes Swagbuck very unique is that you can make money through divert ways. Moreover, swagbuck accept users from all over the world. Though members from United states and UK have greater oppournity because of geograpical location.

2. Toluna.com

    Toluna is a legit site and mostly reward their members with freebies. Toluna is a United Kingdom based survey site with thousands of members all over the world.

3. Mysurvey.com

    Mysurvey is a very popular survey site with thousands of members. One factor that makes the site very outstanding is that you can make money through diverse ways. Apart from survey, you can make money with writing rerviews, data entry jobs etc.

4. Onepoll.com

  Onepoll usually reward their members mostly with cash. Moreover, they have sign up bonus ($5). Onepoll's surveys use to be  short and take only few minutes.

5. Opinionpanel.com

    Opinion panel is one of the best UK research panel. The survey site also give $10 sign up bonus. Presently, the site hardly take in new members. Opinion panel is solely created for teenagers but anybody can participate in the survey.

6. Ipsos.com

  Ipsos is one of the  fastest paying survey site online. Ipsos is international survey site with branches all over the globe. Secondly, their payment threshold is very low and you can cash out your money once you reach £10. They send survey once a week.

7. Valuedopinions.com

  Valued opinion is another survey site that is very popular and legit. Valued opinion surveys are short and can take less than 20 minutes to complete. If you are from United states and UK you can make money relatively fast. Also, their withdrawal threshold is very low around £10.

8. Populuslive.com

 Populus live is from United Kingdom and they are legit. One great advantage of Populus is that they mostly reward their users mostly reward their users mostly with cash. Most of their survey average around £1 pound. Populus threshold is a bit high around £50.

9. Global test market

Global test market is a very large survey network with thousands of members. Their threshold is around £50 and they pay only through cheque. One disadvantage of Global test market is that it may take ages to receive their cheque through email.

10. Opinionoutpost.com

 This is my favorite survey site. Opinion outpost have one of the lowest payment threshold (£2.5) in the survey industry. Secondly, their survey use to be short and can last for less than 15 minutes.

11. iPoll.com

iPoll survey use to be short and very easy to complete. iPoll payment threshold is £20. One demerit of iPoll is that they don't use to have enough surveys. Some members use to wait up to 3 months before they receive a survey.

12. Pineconeresearch.com

Pinecone research accept new members only through invitation. Pinecone research pay up to $3 per completed survey. Pinecorn research survey use to be long and can take up to 30 minutes.

Get paid to tweet

 Nowadays, it is possible to make money with your twitter account. There are dozens of twitter advertising networks that pays publishers to tweet for their advertisers. Here, I reviewed some of the twitter ad networks that I have used to make money.
Note- This advertising networks are interested in twitter account with medium or high number of followers. If your account don't have enough followers, you may find it difficult to make money there.

1. Sponsoredtweets.com

 Sponsoredtweets is one of the pioneers of pay to tweet concept. The advertising network have lasted for more than 6 years and have never failed to pay their publishers. One factor that makes the network very unique is that they allow publishers to set their prize and bid for jobs. Sponsoredtweets is just like marketplace where advertisers and publishers meet.
 Sponsoredtweets  is becoming highly competitive for newbies. In fact it is difficult for a newbie to breakthrough.

 2 RevTwt.com

RevTwtAnother popular twitter ad network that is increasing on daily basis. Recently, RevTwt have extended their services to include Facebook. Nowadays, RevTwt pay their publishers for facebook status updates.
Revtwt don't accept all application especially from account with low or medium followers.

3. Adly.com

 Ad.ly is one of the best paying twitter ad network. They have very simple and easy to navigate platform. Secondly, the ad network doesn't demand much from their publishers. Ad.ly pays you to send ad to your followers. Publishers have choice to choose advertisers their ad will appear in his/her timeline. Once a publisher choose the ad, ad.ly will automatically tweet out the ad from his account.

4. Mylikes.com

 

mylikes is a multidimensional ad network with interest on twitter, facebook and Youtube. You can make money on mylikes through diverse means;
-create likes for their advertisers
-like the page of their sponsors
-create youtube video for their sponsors.

4. Twittad.com

 A new twitter advertising network that give publishers the privilege to choose which campaign will run in their timeline.
Twittad only accept publishers that have high number of followers in their twitter account.

5. be-a-magpie.com

 Magpie is my best twitter advertising network. Once you sign up with the platform, they will place ads in your timeline. Publishers don't have to bid for jobs or tweet for advertisers in the platform.

6. Twtbucks.com

Twtbucks is very popular network among tweet publishers because they dont task them to write post specifically for their advertisers. Twtbucks simply place relevants ads on your tweet posts.  the only disadvantage of using twtbucks is that they dont reveal the metrics they use to calculate publishers earning. The ad network is very good place to start if you are a newbie and dont have thousands of followers.

7. Paidpertweet.com

 Paidpertweet.com is another titter advertising network that acts as a middleman between publishers and advertisers. I have not personally used tweet.com but the network have positive review online. In paidpertweet, publishers set the price they are willing to collect to tweet for an advertiser. Secondly, before joinining the platform you must have thousands of fwollowers and have very active followers that comment on your tweets.

8. Speakr.com (TwtMob.com)

Speakr is one of the highest paying twitter advertising network with hundreds of top brands in their network. Speakr only accept highly influential publishers with high number of followers.
One unique feature of Speakr is that they use to match your tweets with relevant ads.

Make money selling your photo.

Selling photo online is another way people use to make money. The demand of photo is ever increasing and expanding. Smart photographers are using this method to make passive income online.

Note- selling photo online may not be easy as it sounds. One of my friend uploaded more than one thousand pictures before he start to see some financial returns. If you want to make money through selling your photo, it is advisable to take some basic tutorial on photograph. Secondly, don't limit yourself to one site. Diversify and upload your photo to different sites. Though many of these micro stock agents don't use to like the idea. Please read the TOS of the sites before uploading your photos to the sites.

Below are some of the top sites where you sell your photo and make money;

1. istockphoto.com

  istockphoto is a large photo website with over 4.5 million photos uploaded annually. Moreover, istockphoto is highly competitive with hundreds of professional photographers vying for attention.
If you want join istockphoto, you have to apply with three sample of your work. It may take up two weeks before you receive a reply.
Note- istockphoto reputation have continue to dwindle with complains here and there. It is a proven fact that istockphoto's customer service sucks. Contributors and buyers always complain of unethical business practices.

2. Fotolia.com

 Fotolia is one of the best micro stock agency online. Fotolia have more than 2 million contributing photographers, designers etc. One factor that makes Fotolia very unique is that they give amateur contributors space to grow and learn. Secondly, the platform allow contributors to determine and fix the price of their photos. Top contributors are making over $1000 monthly.

3. Shutterstock.com

 Shutterstock have become saturated with thousands of professional photographers. Nowadays, the site is a bit strict in accepting new contributors. Moreover, they use to inspect every photo their contributors upload. Before you start to make money in shutterstock;
1.You must summit over hundreds of photos.
2. Your photos must have demand.

4. Alamy.com

Alarmy is world class micro stock agency that give its. contributor over 60% royalty fee. I believe that is the reason thousands of contributors are shifting to the platform. Presently, alamy have the largest stock in the world ( over 45.2 million images). Moreover, Alamy don't restrict photographers from selling their photos to other sites.

5. Photoshelter.com

Photoshelter( in actually sense of it) is not a micro stock agency. Photoshelter acts an online marketplace for selling and buying images. Photoshelter simply provide enabling environment where buyers and sellers will interact and transact.
The platform have hundreds of templates you can use or customize to suit your style. Moreover, the site have tools you can use to enhance and modify your images. All these benefits doesn't come free. Photoshelter have plans and packages you can choose from. Starters plan starts from $9.99/month.

Make money answering questions

There are tons of websites where you can make money answering questions. Most of these sites are highly specialized and need expert knowledge on a particular field. Therefore, you need to identify sites that specialize in areas you are knowledgeable. Though there are few exception to the rule.
Let's take a look at some of these Q and A sites;

1. Justanswer.com

Justanswer is by far the best question and answer site online. Justanswer is a generous site and pay its contributors handsomely. Questions are priced from $2 to $27.
Justanswer have thousands of answer contributors in virtually any topic you can think of.
The site pays through Paypal once you reached the payment threshold ($20).

2. Smallbizadvice.com

This question and answer site specialize on small business related topics. Moreover, this site is a rallying point for small business owners.

 

3. Chacha.com

Chacha is a very popular site with over 4.2 million members. One factor that makes chacha very unique is that you can answer questions through text messages.

Make money with pay per download

Pay per download is another lucrative way you can use to make money online. There are tons of PPD sites where you can join and start making money in minutes.

How PPD works

As the name applies, you get pay once somebody download your file you lock with PPD sites. PPD involves three steps
1. You must have a file worth sharing
2. Use content locking network to lock the file, so that any person that want to download the file must perform some task. The task may be providing some basic information or doing surveys.
3. Drive traffic to the download link or page.

Now, I will review some of the legitimate content locking networks that have been paying for years.
200+  ways of making money online

1. Adworkmedia.com

 Adworkmedia is the king of content locking networks. Adworkmedia have best paying rate in the industry. They pay from $1-$25 per download. The site have a lot of functionality that you can use to monetize your premium contents. Moreover, the platform content locking tools is flexible and highly geo-targetting.

 Adworkmedia pays weekly once you reach minimum payment threshold($35).

2.https://sharecash.org/

 Sharecash is one of the pioneers of PPD concept and still going strong. Sharecash is a great place for newbies to start because they offer pre-loaded files if you don't have any file. The only thing required from you is to promote and drive traffic. You have all kind of contents provided free for you to promote without violating any copyright laws.
Sharecash pays $1 or above for first tier countries and less for other countries. Sharecash use all top online payment processors.

3.CPAGrip.com

CPAGrip is a combination of PPD and CPA network. The platform integrated content locking into their system recently. Now, they are one of the top PPD network in the industry. CPAGrip pays around $2 per download for first tier countries and low rate for other countries.
The platform always prefer experienced publishers. CPAGrip have first rated customer service and always available 24/7. Payment method include paypal, payza, wire and check.

4.Adscendmedia.com

Adscendmedia is another content locking network that is popular among publishers. Adscend media is more of CPA network than content locking network. Adscend media is more incentive based than pay per download. Adscend pay for every genuine effort you make to promote their advertisers.

5.Purebits.net

 Purebits.net is many things rolled together. Purebits is a PPD, PPI and CPA network rolled into one. The platform have one of the best content locking tools in the industry. You can lock and monetize anything you can think of with purebits tools. The site is not suitable for newbies especially those that are not technologically savvy.
 Purebit minimum payment threshold is $50.

6. Cleanfiles.net

Cleanfiles is a unique and legtimate PPD network that have been paying since 2012. Cleanfiles prefer to work with exprienced publishers. In fact, cleanfiles hardly accept newbies with limited experience in PPD and marketing.

Make money with PTC

Am not a fan of PTC and other related money making programs. I consider PTC a waste of time and energy, because the click rate is ridiculous low.
Here, I review few PTC sites that have been paying since their inceptions. These PTC are legit but you can't make reasonable money.

1. Neobux.com

Neobux is one of the pioneers of PTC and so far they are the king of PTC. Neobux have been in business for more than 9 years. The platform is multi-dimensional site where you make money viewing ads, doing mini jobs, renting referrals etc.
Users from first tier countries like United states get up to 30 ads daily at rate of $0.002 per ad.

2. Clixsense.com

 Clixsense is another legitimate site that have been in business for more than 9years. You can make money in clixsense through diverse methods. Some of the ways include viewing ads, playing grid games, surveys, mini jobs, referral programs etc.