Making Money Online

I was a complete newbie and I absolutely had no idea what I was doing . What I had was an internet connection, no money and a lot of time on my hands. The first thing I did was to google "make money online" and followed every link I could find. The ones that asked for money outright for some kind of "instant business online" I immediately dismissed not simply because I had no money to spend but also because I am a skeptical kind of person. The person who offers to teach you how to make thousands of dollars for a few bucks is probably going to make thousands of dollars from suckers who go for this pitch.

I also tried some "paid to click" schemes who offered 10, 20, 50 dollars just for signing up. Well, signing up was free so I did that and started working right away. After a while I realized that I was never going to see a cent of that free money and began to get a feeling about the cleverness of these schemes which felt kinda illegal and unethetical at best. There is never a dearth of cleverness on the Internet but as the Romans say, Caveat Emptor. All I can say about this is that these schemes are best left alone.

I then got acquainted with blogs and there are a lot of them which offer free hosting and a chance to make money using Google Adsense and other forms of online advertising. This sounded like a rational deal so I went into it for a while. I guess you could say that I learned a great deal about the Internet from this blogging experiment. An example is that one has to learn a little bit about css and html if one wanted to put ads and links on blogger blogs. Blogging is a good way to get a handle on making money online without spending any money.