Making money through the internet.

            How you ever wondered about ways of making extra cash? Have you ever considered trying to make money through the internet?  For those of you who said yes to the above questions, I may have some interesting options for you. Many websites offer easy and free ways to make extra money. Blog ads, online questionnaires, and video ads are great ways to make extra money online.

Have you ever noticed whenever you’re browsing a website or a blog, those little ads randomly placed on the side of the page you’re on? Some can be irrelevant to the website or blog you’re on, but did you know that the owner of the page is making money off of them? Companies, such as Google, give you the opportunity to make extra money just by putting ads on your blogs or websites. Things like AdSense, which is run by Google, and AdBrite will pay you whenever someone clicks on the link that is displayed on your page. The outcome of these ads can be anywhere between zero cents to at most ten U.S. dollars. To have these ads on your site, you must apply to Google AdSense. If you are accepted, they will let you choose key words or phrases to customize your ads depending on your site or blog. Such as, if you have a food blog you can choose to put different food related ads to show your viewers. There are some down sides to adding ads to blog and websites. Like stated before there is a chance that an ad may not pay as much money as others. There is a chance that you may not make any profit from one ad, but another ad may give you three dollars per click. You also have to think about how the view will see your blog, such as the appearance of the blog once the ad is added to it. Sometimes if the ad is an ‘in your face’ ad, the viewer would click off assuming it’s just a scam or

As someone who has used online questionnaires in the past, I positively say they are actually a very reliable source of extra income. The whole point of the questionnaires is to give companies feedback on products we use every day, or even things we do every day. These questionnaires are easy to do and are usually based on things you’re interested in. Websites such as Opinion Outpost and Survey Savvy are two, reliable, websites I would recommend using. When you sign up for Opinion Outpost will have you fill in your profile to figure out what you’re interested in. Based on that information, they send you surveys that will interest you. Survey Savvy is very similar to Opinion Outpost; it uses the same personal profile system to offer you surveys to take. The only difference is that once you have made approximately one dollar, to ‘Request Payment’. Which is will be sent via the U.S. mail. Personally, I feel the only down side to this method is the fact that it is time consuming. As someone who has extra time to just sit in front of a computer, I find it easy to take the Questionnaires. With someone who has to take care of children or someone who’s usually busy at work, it may be harder to take the surveys. There is also the risk that a website may not be trustworthy. Sadly, there are scam sites out there that will take advantage of you. Even though there are no specific list of sites that are scams here is a link to a website that will help you determine if it is a scam site or not.

            Whenever you’re on YouTube, doesn’t it seem like there is always that annoying ad that plays before the video, of even a pop up ad at the bottom of the video player while you’re watching something? I can tell you I get those all the time, since I’m an avid YouTube user. You probably wouldn’t think that the user of that account is making money off that ad. This is very similar to the ads on the blogs. By adding Google’s AdSense to your videos, you can make some extra money. Another reason it is similar to the ads on blogs: For every click on these ads, you make more money per click. A great thing about this is the fact that after a while, this partnership can be considered a full time job. Much like many other “YouTubers” such as, Shane Dawson, Phillip Defranco, Shay Carl, and Charles Trippy, they have made YouTube their full time job. Let’s take Charles Trippy, also known as CTFxC, for example; he has vlogged (video blogged) every day for the past 1612 days (as of 9/30/2013). He holds the world record for the most consecutive days documented by video, as well as “vlogging” his engagement and wedding to his wife Alli, tour life with the band he plays bass guitar for, known as We The Kings, and two brain surgeries. He also recently filmed while in the operating room of his most recent brain surgery which has been receiving national news due to the fact this surgery has never been filmed and posted online before. (video below was filmed on 9/17/2013 it is documented as 1601 named, Man Films Own Brain Surgery)

To get back to the topic: Some cons about this idea are the fact that it is very time consuming. Moreover, it is required to post videos regularly to keep your partnership statues. As well as keep a clean name by posting acceptable content and following the Copyright and original content rules. There is also a chance of being denied when you apply.

            There are probably many different ways to make money on the internet, such as companies paying people to ‘spam’ others on social networking sites to click links. I personally believe that these three methods are more reliable, as well as less annoying to others. As a closer, always be safe on the internet, and never give your personal information.