13 Legit Money-Making Skills You Can Learn Online For Free

The Skills

Business development – MIT offers over 100 free courses from Sloane School of Management.  Some courses even offer assignments with solutions provided!

Programming - This is an area I’ve been interested in improving my knowledge lately.  I came across this free course on learning Python for beginners to coding.  It comes with a lengthy guide and various lessons and drills to test out.  Since there are various programming languages that are open-source, there are tons of other free resources out there, too.

Web Development – The Beginner’s Web Design Tutorial will take you all the way from simple website basics through a 3-part CSS tutorial and advanced HTML. Quackitcovers some of the same material, but also includes tutorials on Javascript, PHP, SQL, and XML.  These are the basic foundations you need to know to build websites, so this tutorial should be more than enough to get you started.

Graphic Design – Ideabook.com has 36 free tutorials for all sorts of different applications of graphic design.  Psdtuts+ features an 18-part Photoshop Basix video tutorial series, so be sure to check that out to learn about one of the most popular applications in graphic design.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Given that its almost exclusively online, there are a ton of resources to learn search engine optimization.  The best guide I’ve found for beginners is SEO Moz’s Beginner’s Guide to SEO. This will take you through all the basic methodology as well as important concepts and terms to know.  Other great free online guides include SEO 101 from Search Engine Guide and Webconfs SEO Tutorial. I learned all of this, and more, from Sean Ogle’s 48 hour guide to becoming an SEO freelancer.

Languages – One of the best places to learn a language online is through downloadable Podcasts from the iTunes store.  There were at least 24 Podcasts in iTunes for the purpose of learning Spanish (not even counting Podcasts simply spoken in Spanish).  Each of these has hours of content, so it’s safe to say you could never run out of content to listen to. There were other podcasts in French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and more, too.

Aside from Podcasts, there are free websites and content out there to help learn a language.  StudySpanish.com allows you to take 50+ lessons on pronunciation, grammar, and more.

Economics – UC Berkley offers courses in both Micro and Macroeconomics as podcasts through iTunesU, as well as an introduction course.  These aren’t simply some short, introductory material.  Each course offers over 30 hours of classroom content!  If you prefer to read over a course,  MIT again offers a long list of economics coursesavailable for free.

PR/Social Networking - Many companies actually hire employees simply to manage their social networks.  Of course, some of the best resources for learning about building and managing social networks are found online.  Mashable, which is one of the leaders in social media news and tips, offers a Twitter Guide and a Facebook Guidebook. These guidebooks will not only teach you how to use these social media platforms, they will also teach you how to use them to Optimize Your Brand on Facebook or use Twitter for customer service. These are definitely skills you can market to an employer, especially if branding and communicating constantly with customers is a big part of the job.

Law – Stanford offers podcasts that you can listen to through the iTunes store.  You can also take a Law and Society course from MIT or read selected lectures from the Supreme Court, Civil Liberties, and Civil Right course.

Mathematics – If you need to improve your math background, there’s resources out there for that, too.  One of the most useful subjects in mathematics, as it relates to jobs, is statistics.  Carnegie Mellon provides a couple statistics courses that are a great start to improving your knowledge of means, standard deviations, and confidence intervals.

Fine Arts - There are courses in fine arts out there, too.  You can find the Art of Color at MIT to take a look at the use of color in visual arts.  You can also learn aboutMasterpieces of Western Art in a Columbia University podcast or take in a Yale course on Roman Architecture.

Writing – Since blogging is centered around writing, it’s a natural topic for other bloggers to cover.  The best site that I’ve come across is Copy Blogger.  While it is, in fact, centered around blogging, the authors offer many great writing tips no matter the media. Check out 7 Ways to Improve Your Writing Right Now and 5 Ways to Write Magnificent Copy to get started on Copyblogger’s great content.  If you’d like a more academic angle, MIT has many writing courses available, too.

Other Essential Software - This would be a giant list if I wanted to name all the software you can potentially learn online for free.  Microsoft Office, which is essential for just about any office job, is one that you should know.  Luckily, due to its popularity, there’s tons of free information on the web that will show you how to use any application of Microsoft Office for free. As an example, I’ll use Microsoft Access, since it’s something I’ve been wanting to learn.  I found this About.com guide to Access, which offers a start to finish guide to to build an Access database.  Microsoft offers its own Access guide, too.  The beauty of learning software (or, well, lots of things for that matter) is that Google will often answer any question that you may have about anything! Just from typing in “build a database with Access” on Google yields 243million results.

Try this with just about any type of software you can imagine, and I’m certain you’ll get results.  Even if you don’t have the license for the software, there are many programs that offer a free trial version that you can get your hands on.

Make Money Selling Your Breast Milk

Believe it or not, if you have recently finished breast feeding or produce extra milk, there is a market available to you.  Through the internet, buyers and sellers of breast milk can find each other.  There is even a site specifically designed with information regarding this subject and a classified section.  It appears that the going rate for breast milk is $2 per ounce.  Since the typical 6 month old baby requires about 32 ounces of breast milk each day, it would be safe to assume that the average lactating female can produce about the same amount.  At $2 per ounce, that could be over $60 each day provided enough buyers could be found.

Make Money Being a Surrogate Mother

Another way to help infertile couples is by becoming a surrogate mother.  Needless to say, this requires quite a substantial commitment on the part of the surrogate.  The process to become a surrogate is also involved and would be expected to consist of physical and psychological screening.  The anticipated compensation for about a year’s worth of effort is on the order of $25,000 with the potential for a small amount of bonus pay (only $500) for each multiple delivery.  Here is a good article on women donating eggs and becoming surrogate mothers during these tough economic times. 

Make Money Selling Your Eggs

It’s the ladies’ turn now.  Again the application process is grueling and only 10 percent of ladies wishing to donate are actually approved.  Once approved, a donor can receive anywhere from $5000 to $10,000 per donation.  I saw that one lady had donated 4 times!  The donor will take fertility drugs to stimulate the production of several eggs at one time.  She will be closely followed medically and undergo a minor surgical procedure to retrieve the eggs when they are ready 

Make Money Selling Your Sperm

Needless to say, this one is for guys only. Although it sounds like it should be fairly easy to make money is this fashion, it can actually be quite difficult to be accepted as a donor. Only 5 percent of applicants eventually qualify. If you do qualify, it is possible to make anywhere from $100-$250 per sample. Many sperm banks will pay a base “commission” per donation and then a small payment for each vial that is selected for use. Ultimately, there are limits on the number of children that can result from your donations. It is possible to make approximately $6000 through this route. 

Make Money Selling Your Hair

One of my daughters donated her hair to Locks of Love which is an organization that makes hairpieces for children suffering from cancer or other causes of hair loss. Little did I know that you can actually sell your hair. One popular online site recently posted a record for a hair sale at $2600 for 37 inches (that’s over $70 per inch). Wow! The average person grows hair at a rate about 0.4 inches per month. So, it would take quite a few years to grow 37 inches worth of hair. But, if you already have long hair and need some quick cash, it is certainly something to consider. 

Make Money Volunteering for Medical Research There are several companies which specialize in performing clinical research for pharmaceutical companies. Medical schools and universities also routinely look for volunteers for clinical research. Usually these “volunteers” are actually compensated for their time quite well. One such company, called Covance, has a location in my state of Indiana. They are looking for volunteers for several clinical studies and are willing to compensate from $1025 up to over $5700 for staying at the facility for 22 days. You may not qualify for every study and it may take some effort searching online for some of the available opportunities, but it could be well worth it. Several studies will pay from $100 to $300 for one day. The more involved the study, the more lucrative the compensation package. It is certainly possible to make some good money doing a few studies each year. I even ran across a site that offered a strategy for making anywhere from $24,000 to $34,000 per year while allowing time between studies to wash out the effects of any study drugs. Truly fascinating!

There are several companies which specialize in performing clinical research for pharmaceutical companies. Medical schools and universities also routinely look for volunteers for clinical research. Usually these “volunteers” are actually compensated for their time quite well. One such company, called Covance, has a location in my state of Indiana. They are looking for volunteers for several clinical studies and are willing to compensate from $1025 up to over $5700 for staying at the facility for 22 days.

You may not qualify for every study and it may take some effort searching online for some of the available opportunities, but it could be well worth it. Several studies will pay from $100 to $300 for one day. The more involved the study, the more lucrative the compensation package. It is certainly possible to make some good money doing a few studies each year. I even ran across a site that offered a strategy for making anywhere from $24,000 to $34,000 per year while allowing time between studies to wash out the effects of any study drugs. Truly fascinating!

Make Money Selling Your Plasma

This is by far the easiest and most common way to make money a little extra cash using just your body. To be eligible to donate your plasma, you must be between the ages of 18 and 65 and weigh at least 110 pounds. There are several different plasma donation companies that collect your plasma and pay you for it. These plasma collection companies will sell the plasma of many donors to drug companies that will purify it into blood protein products that can be used for hemophiliacs, burn victims, and others who need life-saving treatment. You can donate up to twice per week and make anywhere from $200 to $500 per month. Here is a great article that goes into much more detail if you are interested. It would easily be possible to earn up to $5000 each year by selling your plasma. 

Make Money Online With Top Freelancing Sites

If you possess skills and want to earn from home then online freelancing sites are just meant for you where you can directly contact providers for on job opportunities. Check out some most popular websites which provides the facility of freelancing works with 100% payment guarantees on every small assignment which you do. Most of the freelancing sites are free to join by anyone if you have the caliber to perform the jobs you can simply sign up with it. 


You can search for freelancing websites on major search engines, some of the most admired and well engaged sites are given below. 


Odesk.com
Odesk can help you on almost anything, if you are a service provider or if you are looking for job opportunities or freelancing work from any location. Odesk is a comprehensive resolution of freelancing works online, anytime and anywhere. Their exceptional move toward warranty to customer according to the each our worked makes the site incomparable in terms of hourly work against hourly payments.

Guru.com 
Guru.com one of the renowned freelancing site popular among businessmen all over the world, consisted of more than 500,000 freelancers working from the globe. The site supports the professionals with different categories covering web application developers, programmers, web designers, graphic designers, business development managers and more. 

freelancer.com
freelancer.com is another top listed freelancing site which provides quality works with millions of service providers and freelancers working from distant locations. You can hit upon a range of projects covering to innovative jobs similar to graphics designing, programming, writing, search engine optimization and more. As a freelancer you can select the projects from thousand of work assignments posted by the provider’s everyday according to you skills and area of interests. 

ELance.com
Elance is one of the fastest growing freelancing site providing extensive home based job assignments to worldwide clients, providers and freelancers. Elance is a world-class online knack marketplace, facilitating businesses, employ and direct specialists online to obtain their assignments and develop their businesses. By way of above $245 million in pay envelope till date, outworker and service providers all over the world operate Elance to join employers on various kinds of work assignments. 

Cost per Action networks (CPA)

We can call CPA as an easier form of Affiliate Marketing. Here we get paid for an action from the visitor. It is more like Cost per lead or CPL program. We get paid once a lead is created. It is one opportunity that makes me spend sleepless nights monitoring the traffic I send and the amount of profits I make. We have a section dedicated to help you join and make money with these networks. 

Ecommerce

Ecommerce is among the popular opportunities online. Buying and selling of products or services over internet is what we call as ecommerce. It is a genuine opportunity. We have some informative articles written about ecommerce here. 

Paid Surveys

Your opinion counts a lot. Most companies out there would like to know your opinion about their products and how to improve them. There is large number of survey providers out there who would enroll you for free. You will be sent surveys based on your profiles and remunerated accordingly. There are scams in paid surveys. MY advice would be not to pay a penny to make money with paid surveys. You have all the information you require to learn this opportunity provided in detail here. 

Write an ebook

It is another creative opportunity to make money online. You sell your expertise by writing an ebook. There are huge opportunities available to promote your ebook, provided it is a good one. We cover all the details and tools required for a beginner to begin his ebook business. 

Domain Flipping

Yet another opportunity that finds a place here in this top ideas to make money online because of its creativity. It is an exclusive opportunity for those who are creative. Domain flipping is considered as a genuine option to make money. The steps required are very simple. It is a practice of buying and registering domain names with intent to sell it later for a higher price. Flipping websites or domains we have it covered in detail here. 

Flipping or selling websites

The sheer amount of excitement that this opportunity provides made me to include this opportunity in top ideas to make money online. Create a professional website with quality articles, promote and generate some traffic and sell it for a price. This opportunity is generating huge interest online. We provide enough material for you to learn and execute this opportunity. 

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing never ceases to excite me. Join affiliate networks, select your product, prepare your marketing strategy and enter the market with a bang. It requires lot of creativity from you and if you have it in you, we have enough articles and tutorials here to help you learn the basics. 

Sell on EBay

Selling on Ebay is another popular opportunity. If you have it in you to become creative, you have a great opportunity here. With an astronomical amount of traffic that Ebay receives every year, we can sell almost anything here. Find a unique product, offer great shipping opportunity and unmatched pricing seems to be the formula to excel here. We have interesting articles on ebay here. 

Google Adsense

Adsense comes from Google. That should shut all your concerns. It is one of the most popular and Legitimate ideas to make money online. In the first quarter of 2011, Google earned 2.34billion dollars or 28percent of their total income from Adsense. This will help you understand the importance of this program. It is very easy to learn and make money using this opportunity. We have a section dedicated to help you learn Adsense. 

Freelance opportunities

If you have a will there is a job waiting for you here. Freelance offers, jobs and opportunities for people from all walks of the life. If you can write, there are writing opportunities available. If you are a designer, you have designing opportunities available. There are graphics designing, Data-entry, Programming and internet marketing related offers available in plenty. We have a separate dedicated section available to help you learn Freelance offers. 

Start A Gift Ideas Dropshipping Website

A lot of people think that they can’t have their own website selling all manner of things because they don’t have the money to buy the stock, let alone find room to store it all.

But there is a way that you can sell stuff online without needing to touch a single item that you promote – and that is by dropshipping.

Not only is this one of the best ways to make money online, it also gives you the freedom to be able to sell a lot more items than you would otherwise be able to. Interested? I thought you might be…

So what exactly is dropshipping? Put simply, it’s a process whereby you promote a number of products that are sold by a specific company. You don’t stock them yourself though; what happens is that when someone places an order they pay you directly, and then you will generally place an order for that item through the company’s website.

But you don’t pay the full price for the item, you simply pay the net price that the company charges you, plus the postage costs to send it direct to the customer. You also give them your customer’s name and address details so they can send the package directly to them.

So if your customer pays $20 plus $2 postage for an item, they will send you $22. Once you receive that money, you send the net cost – which could be, say, $12 – plus the $2 postage to the company. This small amount of work leaves you with $8 profit. And that’s just on one sale.

A gift ideas dropshipping website would do well because it appeals to all kinds of people at all times of the year. Everyone always has an awkward gift to buy for someone, whether it’s for a birthday, an anniversary, Christmas or any one of a dozen other occasions. So if you populate your website with plenty of different gift ideas for people of all ages, you will have a great chance of starting to make some sales fairly quickly.

But where exactly do you find these dropshippers in the first place?

Well some of them operate a wholesale option as well, and it’s true that if you start looking for wholesalers you will often find dropshippers on your travels as well. You can start by looking on Google and Yahoo for gift dropshippers and other variations on that search term.

Alternatively, if you find a company whose products you really like, visit their website directly and see if they have a dropshipping option. If not, email them and ask! It never does any harm and you can actually make contacts with some good suppliers in this way, especially as most people won’t bother emailing on the off chance.

Offer Marketing Services To Offline Businesses

As hard as it may be to believe, there are still some businesses out there that don’t have an online presence. But they don’t all want or need a huge website with complicated ordering processes, yet that is often what all the best design companies are offering.

The main reason for many businesses to get online is to raise their profile and attract more customers – and that is exactly what you can offer them. You don’t even need to be a web designer either; the main idea here is to do things for them that they cannot do themselves.

And that is where the money making opportunity lies.

There is a lot of potential here to offer a lot of services to businesses who don’t yet have an online presence.

If you have basic design skills and you feel confident in creating simple websites then you could offer a service for a flat fee which includes a domain name and a basic website of a limited number of pages. But there is plenty more you can do as well.

For example, if you are good at writing you could offer to write articles around the subject of each business and submit them to a number of online article directories. You would then provide a link at the bottom inviting people to call the number of the business if they want to find out more. You would usually include a web address here but a phone number would work if they don’t have a website.

Similar services would offer classified adverts, written and submitted to those markets which would get them the best publicity. You could also set up a package to create a blog around the subject of their business, writing a couple of unique posts to it every week and gradually building up a following from there. If you did this you would probably find it better to charge an initial set up fee to help cover the domain name and hosting costs, followed by a small monthly fee to keep the site going.

There is also the possibility of writing brand new press releases to promote a new service or product that a business has launched. You could then charge a fee to write and distribute these to a specific number of outlets.

As you can see there are plenty of different ways that you can help offline businesses get some kind of presence online, and even if you start off with basic services you can add others as you go along. The trick is to be as versatile as you can and perhaps even offer a discount for opting for more than one service.

See what other people are currently doing as well. Some graphic designers offer a number of add on services to their main design service that you could offer yourself, without having the headache of website designing that goes along with it.

Make sure you create a proper list of services and prices and promote them offline by contacting businesses via leafleting and so on. This should start to bring in your first few clients and you can then build up your business from there. The trick is to start finding freelancers to help you get all the work done once you get to the stage of being really busy.

Make Money Writing Book Reviews

Have you ever read a particular book and had a really strong opinion of how good or bad you thought it was? And have you ever thought about making money from those opinions?

The chances are you haven’t, and yet you could be doing just that if you are an avid reader and you always get through a lot of books. The time it would take to write a quick review at the end of each one could earn you a nice chunk of money to spend on your next big read!

There are plenty of ways to write for cash online, but writing book reviews isn’t one of the most popular. People tend to go straight for writing articles as this is the most well known way of earning money from your pen (or in this case your typing fingers…), and that leaves a good chance for those people who want to have a go at reviews.

So how do you get started?

Well there are a number of ways you can sell your reviews, and you can actually sell them both online and off, depending on which markets you have locally that may accept them.

A good first step is to search online for websites that pay for book reviews. There are some writing based sites that pay according to how many people view your reviews, such as Helium for example. Other websites allow you to sell your reviews direct to anyone who may wish to buy them; a good example of this kind of website is Constant Content. You set your own price and write whatever kind of review you want to, at whatever length you desire. This can be a good place to sell your book reviews.

But if you want to sell directly to a particular market then you may need to submit your reviews (or ideas for reviews) straight to the editor of a specific publication. Check out your local newspapers and magazines to see if there is a book review slot that isn’t taken up by a regular writer. You can also offer to write a regular review for a particular magazine if you like the subject it is concentrated on; many people get started in a regular job by offering their services like this.

The trick to writing a successful review is to be able to write to any guidelines that people require you to. It’s no good writing 500 words if they only want 300. You have to learn to be able to write tightly and get everything in the required amount of space otherwise you won’t succeed at writing reviews.

Before writing any real reviews try a few practice ones to get the hang of how to do it. There are also plenty of writing based websites and blogs where experts will help and advise you on how to write well and get your ideas and opinions across in the right way. These sites will often also give you more contacts for places that are looking for good reviews to start your career off with a bang.

Incidentally the review business doesn’t just stop at books. If you find you have a knack of writing good concise reviews on many different subjects then why not try your hand at reviewing other things as well? There are plenty of websites which pay you either in cash or in vouchers to review anything from everyday products to cars to electronics, and pretty much anything else you can think of.

In short you can make a nice second income from review writing if you do your research and start adding several markets to your list of possibilities to write for. Take your time though and get used to the process of writing first; if you get off to a good start you will be making more money in no time.

Make Money Writing Ads For Products And Services

Some people are naturally more attuned to making money online, purely because of the 24/7 nature of being able to do it. If you know what to do you can be making money right round the clock just from writing a few simple adverts.

What’s more, you don’t need a lot of money to get started (you can actually control what you spend right down to the last cent) and you can go at your own pace. The secret to success is in knowing which products and services to promote to earn the money.

Every day there is a group of people who are making money from writing small adverts for the products of their choice. This is actually quite an easy task once you know how to do it, and the great thing is that you don’t actually have to physically sell anything yourself.

So how do you get started? The key is to join a website which offers lots of affiliate products all under one virtual roof. The best two online today are Commission Junction (this gives you access to promote a wide range of products and services on all kinds of subjects) and ClickBank (which concentrates more on digital products).

These are both free to join and once you have done so you can promote any number of products via writing short adverts through Google AdWords and similar programs.

While you can advertise anywhere, Pay Per Click programs are the best to use since you don’t pay anything unless someone actually clicks on an ad you have written. By getting to know exactly how these programs work and reading through all the information given on these websites you will be able to get the best results from every ad you place.

You can also drive traffic to the products you are promoting by building websites and writing adverts to place on these too. The trick is to start small and see where you go from there. PPC advertising can be expensive if you dive in without doing small tests on products to see how well they work first, so be careful and choose your first few products carefully before diving in the deep end.

The best strategy is to set a specific amount of money as your ceiling each day. For example you could say that you won’t spend more than $5 over all the ads you choose (although obviously with a budget this low you wouldn’t be able to effectively promote more than two or three products or services at most). Make sure you keep accurate notes as to which strategies work better than others, and which ads need some work.

The one thing that attracts people to making money in this way is that it only takes a few minutes to write each advert – but the long term benefits can be enormous. You could still earn an amount of money from an ad you wrote months ago, so the more adverts you can eventually create the better the results will be.

Don’t just pick the products that you personally would like either. Take the time to discover which ones will be more popular with other people, as you might miss out on a lot of sales if you only concentrate on the things that you would like.

So if you’d like some practice at writing short adverts for all kinds of products and services, head over to ClickBank, Commission Junction and Google AdWords now to see what you think. And don’t forget to leave us a comment below to share your views on this great way of making some money online!

Make Money With Your Own Topical Content Site

We all know that your best shot at making money online is to appeal to a specific group of people – a niche market interested in a specific topic. If you try to appeal to everyone then very few people will actually buy what you’re selling.

That’s why topical content sites are a great way of making money. You simply pick your topic, build a site around it and wait for the money to start coming in. So long as you focus on a profitable topic you’re home free…

Topical content will always be of interest to the people that topic is aimed at. Your first step towards building a topical content site is to pick a topic which is always going to be popular. Do some research online, check various keyword topics to see how many searches each one received in the last month and pick a topic you like the look of.

You can easily choose a good domain name by paying attention to those keywords, and once you have your name and hosting sorted out you can start to build your website. Information is what people will want, so make sure you can source some relevant articles from article directories as well as writing some of your own to cover all aspects of the topic you have chosen.

Free articles will certainly help to build your site quickly, but there is nothing better than unique content which is why it will pay you to research the subject and include content of your own.

You will also want to monetize the site in order to make money from it, and there are several ways you can do this. Firstly you should join the Google Adsense program so you can have carefully targeted ads on each page. Once that is done, join one of the big affiliate websites such as ClickBank or Commission Junction and find some products or downloads that you can promote which would appeal to your audience.

You should also think about creating a regular newsletter to email to everyone who signs up to receive it. Place a box on the top half of your home page inviting people to sign up and offer a free report to entice them to do just that. Once you have a regular audience you can also promote some of your affiliate and commission based products in the newsletter, as well as offering more useful articles and information.

You should make sure your site has several pages – at least half a dozen – before you launch it, to make it worthwhile visiting. Once it is up and running you can work on developing it and adding more sections as appropriate. Many people find that once they have built one topical content site they get the urge to build more, and it can certainly be a profitable way to spend your time, provided you pick niches and topics that are going to attract visitors and customers.

Make Money With Your Own Online Video Website

You only need to take a look at YouTube to see that videos are an extremely popular medium online. But you may never have thought about setting up your own site to rival it.

It might take some doing to reach that stage but you can make a decent amount of money from building up a video website of your own if you go about it in the right way.

But how do you make the money? After all you can’t really charge the users to post their videos on your site, since YouTube doesn’t and you will price yourself out of the market if you attempt to charge for the privilege.

So what options do you have?

The best way to get established in this arena is to think about how to get noticed. For example, are you going to accept any and all videos or are you going to create an online video website around one particular subject?

A targeted site may do better than simply trying to emulate YouTube’s success, as it will make you stand out from the crowd. What subjects are popular enough to build a site around, without breaking any copyright rules in the process? This is definitely an area where a lot of thinking is required before you dive in.

Unless you know a lot about web design and development make sure you get an expert to help you with designing the site so that it not only looks good but the videos themselves are easy for people to submit as well. While you won’t charge for membership you should still have a members’ only area in place where people can manage the videos they send in to the site.

Next you need to think about making money from your site. The easiest way to do that is to put Google Adsense ads on your website, in prominent places on every page. Make sure you tweak the colors and layout as much as Adsense allows you to though, so that they fit in with your layout. By doing this they will look a lot less like adverts and more like links to other areas of interest externally.

The idea is to get your own domain name and hosting before you set up your own site, but it could be that you don’t want to do this. Maybe you already have your own website? In that case, why not add a video section to the site you have now?

This can be a good way to boost your revenue since it adds more interest for people. Imagine you have a website about interesting and weird news stories from around the world. You could invite people to submit their own home movies of various events which happen, and put ads on those pages as and when you add them to your site. This is a great idea since it adds more depth to the site you already have, and encourages more click throughs for your adverts.

Regardless of whether you start from scratch or add a video section to what you already have, an online video website can tap into a big section of internet users who regularly flock to sites like this. And what better place to advertize than on YouTube itself? Don’t make it a blatant advert though – simply post some videos which have something to do with your website and watermark your website URL over the top of them. You might be surprised at how easily you can increase your visitor count like this!