Everybody these days is looking for additional ways to earn money; with a global decline on the way and many economies suffering, thousands of people are rushing to the Internet to find ways to make money online in order to supplement their weekly household earnings.

So you'd like to make money being online. Sounds like a good idea, but is it really possible? Or will you spend more money trying to find out how to make money by being online?

There are some ways you can make money online.

Some sites pay you for completing surveys. So long as the site is highly regarded, you can make money by taking part in consumer surveys. It won't be much money but you know before you take the survey how much you'll be paid and you're ordinarily given an indication of how time-consuming it will take to complete.

You can set up a blog to talk about your favorite subjects. If you start getting traffic to your blog, you can monetize it by placing adverts on it, maybe using Google's Ad-sense service or creating links to associated products and getting commission when someone makes a purchase.

You can promote other people's products (affiliate) and earn a commission's every sale, this is personally my favorite way to generate money online fast, without the hassle of website's etc...

Writing articles - such as this one - can be a good way to drive traffic to your blog. It will take a bit of time to do this, if not you pay someone else to write them for you, but when you note down an interesting article it can send a lot of traffic to the site you're promoting. In favor, this can start making you a quantity of money.

Once you get the taste for making money on the Internet, you can broaden out into other areas with the intention of that they pay commission and earn you some real cash.