General Tips

Before you start with any services, my suggestion is to go through general tips:

1. Use your head! If something doesn't seem quite right, evaluate it for yourself. Things are never free, this information may be free to you but that is only because we are paying for the web hosting and domain registration.

2. Use a brower that blocks pop-ups if you head out into other sites just because they are incredibly annoying. I don't care how much the advertisers pay for that, it is just obscene. Anyways, I use firefox with the Google toolbar for my own browsing pleasure when going to sites I don't know of to avoid the hassles. Not to mention that Firefox allows you to use all of the cool web 2.0 things out there such as StumbleUpon.


3. Protect your identity, if you are going to enter a credit card number or enter your phone number to make additional money online, check the privacy policies of the website first. Websites will never give out things for free, so do your research to see why they are still in business.

4. You never know what a site will be putting on your hard drive, I suggest using free spy ware and virus scanners on a somewhat regular basis. Personally I use McAffe and Ad-Aware on my computers. A good free virus scanner is Avast, you can find many useful tools using the new Google Pack.

5. If an offer seems too good to be true, it probably is. The higher the yield for something, the higher the amount of research you do on a companies background should be.

6. Learn where to place your trust, some websites have a proven track record and as result can for the most part be trusted, while others may borderline and do what they can to stall payments, etc. Unless you find a company that will actually pay out, you will not be making money online just wasting time.

7. Never pay to receive lists of sites to make money, there are free unbiased resources on the web. I originally got the idea to make this blog as a result of seeing these websites advertised, and if there truly are sites that will benefit the average person I want them to be able to enjoy them for free. For instance, if you would like web hosting reviews, check out guru web hosting reviews.


8. Have fun! I am quite happy that I began researching ways to make money on the Internet as I make cash on the side while doing what I love. From concept to this blog took me 100+ hours of initial research and by this point there is probably around 200 hours of research into the various sites as well as the creation of my blog.