Abstract: Since top 5 direct ways to make money have been introduced, I will list down top 5 easiest ways to make money today, enjoy!
Paid Polls or Surveys
Sometimes, there are services that will pay you money to carry out a small survey or poll on your website or blog. But first of all, you need to sign up with them, and choose the polls that you want to run in your site. Most of these services operate under a CPM model.
Private Forums
Although most of the forums are free now, there is also the possibility to create a private one where members need to pay a single or recurring fee to join.
Obviously you need to provide real value, such as effective tips, suggestions, tools, etc. for the members so as to charge such a price for a forum membership.
Job Boards
All these popular blogs are trying to affect job boards to make more money. And needless to say in order to create an active and profitable job board, you first need to have a blog focused on a specific topic as well as a decent amount of traffic.
The merit of this method lies in that it is passive. Once you have the right structure, the job listings will come naturally, and then you can charge anywhere from $10 up to $100.
Marketplaces
Nowadays, more and more websites and blogs are trying to replicate the model of Sitepoint on a smaller scale to make money. A market place that allows your visitors to buy, sell and trade products could work well. And over the time you could start earning a small fee for new product listings.
You can see an example of a marketplaces being used on EasyWordpress.
Selling or Renting Internal Pages
Million Dollar Wiki made this concept popular, but it was being used on the web for a long time around (check Pagerank10.co.uk for instance).
Some websites sell for a single fee or rent for internal pages on their domain. Usually they have either high Pagerak or high traffic (a good example is Wiki), so that people purchasing a page will be able to benefit in some way.
It may be difficult to use this method on a small blog, but the concept itself is interesting and could be explored further.
Donations
You know what, you simply can earn money by placing a "Donate" link or button on a website, especially if your blog is on a niche where readers learn and gain value from your content. Blogs about personal development and productivity, for instance, usually perform well with donation based systems.
Please leave your comments under each article or suggest an idea we haven't get yet. Enjoy!
Some more methods of making money will be provided later.
