Making Money Online

I know you a lot of scams out there promising several thousands of dollars a week working from home and actually only doing about two hours of work each day. Those offers are certainly too good to be true, but there are legitimate ways to make money online. This isn't a list of "get rich quick schemes" and some will take considerable time and effort to generate a decent payout.

1. Blogging - Some of you may be asking, "How on Earth do you make money just by writing a weblog?" It's very simple. See the ads to the right and at the bottom of this post? Those ads are hosted by Google Adsense, and anyone can simply create an account with them and post the ads right on their site or blog. Every time a link is clicked, Google pays out a certain amount to the account holder. It's a very effective way to earn a little extra income, and visiting people's Adsense advertisements helps support the site and ensures new content can be developed and written.
2. Affiliate marketing - If you become an affiliate with a website, be it clickbank.org or amazon.com, you can post direct links to products that you yourself are interested in or think other people might be interested in. Once you link is posted, anyone who uses it and actually makes a purchase puts a little money in your pocket. When a sale is generated through your link, the respective website will give you a pre-determined cut of the sale.
3. Sell your unwanted stuff online - eBay has been around for a while, and just about everyone should know what it is by now. It's basically an internet auction site where sellers post their products and buyers bid up the prices. You can either try to sell just a few unwanted things on the site, or you could make a full-blown business out of it by ordering products wholesale and selling the individual items at a 30% mark-up.
4. iStockPhoto - This a website that offers stock photographs for a small price. Anyone can sign up, and if you're an aspiring photographer, this can be an invaluable asset. All you have to do is take some high-quality photos of generic or really specific things (it's surprising the things people need pictures of), post them on the site, and any time someone pays for your picture the funds are deposited in your Paypal account. This is truly a set it and forget it service. 
5. Post online reviews - If you're good at breaking things down in an easy to explain way, critiquing, and criticizing, then certain companies will allow you to write reviews of their products. They can pay up to $50 per review, so I'd figure the reviews would have to be fairly in-depth.

If you have the time and motivation, i would try all of these ideas and more. There are plenty of other ways to make a little cash on the side on the internet, and all it takes is a simple Google search.