Today, making money online has never been easier. New opportunities are literally sprouting out daily. It can get pretty confusing and complicated to try and choose which of the opportunities to grab. The following ways are still the best and most effective ways of making money online.

1. Affiliate marketing – Affiliate marketing is simply selling other people’s products and services. If you make a successful sale, you earn a sales commission. If you have experience of offline sales, then affiliate marketing will be a lot easier to learn for you. There are thousands of affiliate companies online from which you can choose from. These include Amazon, Clickbank, eBay, Commission Junction and a whole lot more. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages so it’s best that you weigh down all these pros and cons against each other to find the affiliate company suited for you. There are many ways as well of doing affiliate marketing. The best way still is to create a website, your own website where you can then promote and sell your affiliate products and services. You can also buy advertisements from other websites or ad programs and include in your ads your affiliate links.

2. Blogging – It is very common nowadays to hear of bloggers making full-time incomes online. You can as well if you have the right skills and attitude. The key to blogging business is patience and your actual knowledge about what you are blogging about. There are numerous ways on how to monetize a blog. The most used technique is to display advertising on your blog. These could be direct ads purchased from you served by advertising programs like Adsense or Bidvertiser. You can also promote affiliate products and services on your blog. All you have to do is direct your visitors to affiliate companies and if they buy something, you earn a sales commission. Or you can create your own products like an ebook and sell it directly on your blog.

3. Freelance writing – The internet is run and powered by content which can be in the form of images, videos, articles or a combination of the three. Now, it is without a doubt that articles comprise more than 50% of the internet’s content. This is great news if you are a freelance writer. Blogs, websites and companies are always in the lookout for freelance writers to hire. All you have to do is find these writing jobs. There are hundreds of job boards online listing these writing jobs. Just find them and apply.

4. Domain flipping – You set up and create websites then offer them up for sale. This can be very lucrative if you are good in finding profitable and in-demand niches.

5. Direct selling – This is the best way to make money online if you have your own product that you yourself created. You can list your product in sale directories or you can setup a website just for the product.

The above-mentioned ways to make money online are the most popular and effective. Start using them first before you try your hands on other ways.