Millions of people all around the world are involved in one or another of the following frauds/waste of time online money making activities

• Doing Paid Surveys
• Replying to Spam “Your Email has Won Lottery” e-mails
• Involved in Click fraud (thanks to Google Adsense)
• Fill up this Form and get the Secret to make money Online (American Style of milking innocent online users)

The TRUTH is that none of the above makes you to earn living let alone making you rich.

The good news is that THERE ARE some of the DECENT, MOST EFFECTIVE and BEST ways to make money online without wasting your time or getting involved in one or another kind of fraud.

I’ve been working online for more than over a decade and I’ve experimented with all of the above and more (described below) activities. TRUST me the following ways are the ONLY ways to make descent money online and there are NONE other ways to make money online which can be called descent.

READ the following sections carefully and understand how to get maximum benefit out of the MOST EFFECTIVE WAYS to make money online.

This post is going to be very long so I’ve decided to break it into series of posts. In this post I would give brief about each and every online money making tips and then in the subsequent posts I would describe them in details.

WAIT is over in the following paragraphs you are going to DISCOVER the most effective ways to make money online. Take a deep breath and start reading them with full attention.

Tip #1: Play Online Poker

Don’t come to any conclusion before you have read the following lines.

Yes this is true You can make very good money by playing Poker on Online Poker Sites. You don’t need to be a professional poker player and you don’t need to invest any money at all in playing poker. All you need is a good Internet connection and a mathematical mind. After all Poker is a game of skill. REMEMBER Poker is not gambling. The win or lose in Poker depends, more or less, mainly on the poker players and very less on the chance.

Jack has written excellent article on Play Poker Beat Recession which is a masterpiece for anyone who is new to poker world and hesitates to venture into it thinking that Poker is gambling. Poker is NOT gambling. Poker can be fun and it can become your mainstream source to earn money. Who knows you can be the next Poker Millionaire on WSOP.

Read more on Play Poker Online and Earn Money.

Tip #2: Make Money from Blogging

No need to mention how fast blogging is spreading. Everyone blogs now, from big celebrities to Bollywood babes to any common man who has got access to the Internet. So how can you make money from blogging? Before I answer this question you need to know how to Blog. Once you have learned the tricks of blogging and blog promotion then it would be easy to exploit the blogs to make money.

Tip #3: Article Writing

Online marketing is the HOTTEST topics now a days. Online marketing (Or Internet Marketing) involves a number of activities such as SEO, Advertisement, PPC, SEM, Affiliate marketing etc. In SEO the most effective ways to promote any website, product or business is to write articles.

You need not to be an expert in writing, all you need is some writing skills and some brain to churn out article on any given topic by doing research on the Internet. Even if you can’t qualify to become an Article Writer you can still become an Article Rewriter.

On average you can earn anywhere $1000 to $3000 by writing 10-30 articles per day. If you decide to work full time as article writer then you can be able to earn as much as $5000 per month. Yes don’t be surprised, if you have potential to write, earning money by writing articles is not so difficult. Just check out World’s No. 1 Freelance Jobs site and you will find plenty of writing jobs.

Read this post on Write Article Earn Money Online for more on the writing article to earn money.

Tip #4: Do Freelancing

Freelancing is another most effective ways to earn money online, however it is risky and hit and miss situation. The recession has made freelancing into a challenging environment. There is huge opportunity in the freelancing domain, whether you are into Web Design, Web Development, Programming, PHP Development or any other technical domain you can easily do freelancing with these skills and make it as your full time job. Even if you don’t want to make it full time job you can still earn extra money by doing freelancing.

In this post I would describe more on how to make money from freelancing.

Tip #5: Internet Marketing

Internet marketing is the future of online business. Almost more than 90% of the brick and mortar businesses are having online presence and there is huge opportunity out there to trap this market to make it into money making machine by doing online marketing. Internet Marketing is no secret no a days. Any one can do Internet Marketing, all you need is a right mindset and understanding of how Internet and Search Engines work. You even don’t need to know anything about Marketing and certainly you don’t need to be Harvard graduate to shine in the online marketing field.

Read more on How to Make Money from Internet Marketing.

Tip #6: Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing is relatively new but not so unfamiliar. If you are on facebook, myspace, twitter or any social networking websites chances are you are already doing Social Media Marketing in disguise. Social media marketing requires a different set of mind, you need to understand the nitty gritty of the Social media and how to exploit it for the marketing.

Read more on how to Make Money from Social Media Marketing

Tip #7: Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing can be compared with he Franchise business in real world. You earn the share of profit generated by you. Affiliate marketing is a different ball game all together. You need to utilize all the knowledge of SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media Marketing, E-mail Marketing and other techniques to get the maximum benefit out of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is not as easy as many people think. The most misunderstood misconception about affiliate marketing is that it is as easy as copying and pasting tracking code in your website. Well that is starting point rest is the whole game.

I’ll explain more about How to make Money from Affiliate Marketing later on.

Tip #8: Virtual Assistant

Sounds strange? Not so. have you ever tried chatting with any support person online? In most cases they might be virtual assistant taking care of the mundane support activities. Virtual assistant job is not limited to providing online chat support, they can be anything which can be done online.

Tip #9: Data Entry

In the worst case when you don’t qualify for any of the above mentioned work you can still earn money online by doing simple data entry work. Data entry work comes in different varieties, it could be as simple as entering data online and can become as complex as doing internet research. Data entry can’t make you earn a lot of money but you can still be able to make very decent anywhere between $300-$500 per month which is far more than the average monthly salary for the well qualified professionals in countries such as India, Philippines and other developing countries.

In this post I’ve described how to Make Money Online from Data Entry

Tip #10: Make Money from Online Advertisement

Google Adsense? Everyone who is interested in making money online must have been attracted to Google Adsense at one point of time only to become detached later on.

Google Adsense is just on of such kind of network and most profitable but still not even worth your pocket money from online advertisement. Heard of Click Fraud? That is the by product of Google Adsense advertisement. I’m not a great admirer of PPC marketing. Why someone gonna pay Google if visitors just click on the advertisement and don’t take any further action? Those people advertising on PPC network are the dumbest ones. PPC can be compared to Newspaper advertisement whereas you gonna pay to newspaper if someone’s just reads your advertisement. How does it sound? Stupidity? Dumbness? Yes right that is the PPC advertisement.

Read more truth about Making Money from Google Adsense type of Networks.