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With a struggling economy and rising unemployment rates, many people are looking for extra income. In the past, you could go out and get a second job to help make more money, but with so many people out of work, there just aren’t that many opportunities out there for second jobs.

The internet is a good place to supplement your income or even make a full time income. There are thousands of ways you can make money on the internet and many don’t require any prior experience or a large investment to get started.

One way that you can make money that doesn’t require any investment and is easy to get started is to publish articles on established websites and get paid for people visiting your site and clicking on ads. Two sites that allow you to make money this way are Hubpages and Squidoo. All you have to do is write an article about something you know about and publish it on one of these websites. You can write about literally anything from the acai berry to how to potty train a dog, but you want to write about something that people will be looking for.

Now you may be asking, “how do I make money from this?” There are several ways you can make money. At Squidoo, they have a profit sharing program that pays everybody a percentage of the money they make based on the traffic they get to their article. At Hubpages, you create an account with Google Adsense and tie that to your Hubpages account. You get paid when people click on the Google ads that are automatically put in your article.

Another way you can make money is to sign up for affiliate programs and send traffic to an affiliate site. For example, if you became an affiliate for Amazon.com, you would send people to a specific product on Amazon and you get paid a commission every time somebody buys a product. There are even programs out there that allow you to market electricity and natural gas. One such company that does this is Ambit Energy.

When it comes to making money on the internet, you’re really only limited by your creativity. If you need some help getting started, there are tons of good programs out there that will help you get started. Some of them are very expensive and some of them are very cheap. If you are just starting out, get a cheap one so you can learn the basics. After that you will be better able to make a decision on what is a good program for you.