5 Basic ways to make money online

I've written a lot of published articles on making money online but the bottom line is that they can all be grouped under the following categories and any of them can make money for you.

1. Internet publishing: just pushing content to the web.
The internet is hungry for content and the more content you can push to it, the more money you are likely to make. They are big time publishers and there are small ones. You can start from small and grow big in the online publishing industry. Content is what web visitors get when they visit the web so if you can provide that, you can have a good income from it.

- Blogging
- Submitting articles
- Online directories
- News website
- Micro-blogging
- Video publishing
- Question and answer website
- Classifieds
- Online gaming

2. Affiliate marketing: promoting online sales.
You don't own the product or service but you just promote it and the more sales you bring, the higher your income from commissions.

Affiliate programs are available in the following areas:

- Retail stores: Amazon, ebay, Toshibadirect
- Web hosts: Bluehost, Hostgator,
- Entertainment industry
- Membership accounts
- Advertising: Chitika, Clicksor, Bidvertiser ..
- Publishing: Chitika, Clicksor, Bidvertiser ..

3. Selling online: selling goods and services online. This is the most reliable way most people make money online. They can create their own products or services and can sell them any way they want. This includes the following:

- Selling ebooks
- Selling digital items
- Selling advertising
- Selling physical items
- Selling services

4. Freelancing: offering services online.
This is for talented people who have skills and are able to deliver a job or execute a project on behalf of clients without a physical meeting. There are lots of platforms where freelancers can advertise their services and they paid using online payment after the completion of a project. In includes areas such as the following:

- Web designing
- Article writing
- Copywriting
- Resume writing
- Graphic design
- Data entry
- Search engine optimization
- Programming
- Script developers
- Blog writers
- Animation

5. Online trading:
This basically involves buying and selling on the internet and doing it for profit. It involves areas such as the following:

- Forex trading
- Stock trading
- Currency exchanges
- Domain trading