Anyone who has done any research on online marketing knows plenty of scams abound. Unfortunately, unscrupulous Internet marketers feed on the abundance of inexperienced people who are looking for financial freedom. It’s very sad, because millions of people probably spend money and lose a lot of time, only to get involved with scams or at least bad business ideas that line marketers’ pockets and leave buyers with nothing. Fortunately, methods abound for making money on the Internet without any up-front fees. This will probably come as a revelation to those who have been ripped off by Web schemes!

But sometimes one person’s scam is another person’s opportunity. An example of this is the controversy over an Internet business opportunity named Site Build It. Some believe that one or more people have created a sitesell.com review that wasn’t entirely accurate. The owner stepped forward to defend himself and he might be right about his product being on the up-and-up. But it’s up to every individual to do their own research before paying money for Internet “opportunities”.

One of the main ways I like to make money online is totally above-board and is also pretty easy. I make money writing. HubPages — a community blogging site — makes it quite simple to generate content-based ad revenue. You can create as many or as few content “hubs” (pages) as you like. Each hub has the potential to make up to five forms of revenue: Amazon and eBay items, any affiliate marketing program you’d like to implement, Google AdSense ads and Kontera ads. You get the revenue from 60 percent of the page views that generate money and the people who own HubPages get 40%. The exception to that would be if you implemented an affiliate program; One hundred percent of income generated by click-throughs from an affiliate link on a hub would belong to you. It takes a while to get good at creating solid hubs but in my opinion, the money you can earn over time makes it worth the effort.

One of the affiliate marketing programs I like to use on my hubs is RevResponse, because people who sign up get great free information. When anyone clicks on your links and qualifies to receive free RevResponse magazines or white papers, you get paid. That’s all there is to it. The qualifying part is the catch though, so you have to understand that aspect. To learn more, check out this review of RevResponse. It will help you ascertain whether signing up is worth the time it would take to sign up.