I decided to set this lens up to educate people about the many different way of making money online for free.

I have a lot of experience using websites that can earn you money on the Internet, and I'm surprised that not many people know about these sites that pay you to do simple tasks online.

I was also fed up with the many websites that asked for some kind of payment upfront, before you are able to view the information about making money online. Too many people were trying to sell this information on the Internet, using sites like eBay to auction the info - which was usually just a link to a paid survey site, or another source of online money.

There are so many ways of making money on the Internet for free, and I will try my best to show you how to make money online for free now. The lens will mainly concentrate on paid surveys, paid review sites, paid to click sites, paid blogging sites, affiliate and advertising programs that can be used on your own websites, and various other ways of making money online for free.

There are hundreds of different paid survey websites available to join on the Internet for free. These sites will pay you money to answer surveys that they send to you by e-mail.

Some survey sites will ask you for credit card details before joining, and it is well worth avoiding these. Never give any money to a paid survey site, as they are more then likely to be a scam survey site. All decent, reputable survey websites are completely free to join and use - the survey companies pay you to complete surveys, not the other way round. Always make sure you remember that.

Most paid survey sites pay out by cheque or by Paypal. You will usually have to earn a minimum amount of money before requesting a payment - this is usually around the £15 mark.
The typical 20 minute survey will pay out around £3.50, so it shouldn't take you very long to reach the minimum cash-out rate. Usually you will receive around 4 surveys to complete per week.

You are under no obligation to complete these surveys, but obviously if you don't answer any then you won't earn much money.

We will list some of the best paid survey websites below, with payment information and a link to join the survey site for free.

Toluna
Toluna is one of the most popular paid survey websites available to join. Toluna send out the latest products, such as iPod's and Xbox 360's, and allow you to test and review them. Then you can answer a survey based on the product, and still get paid. Sometimes you even get to keep the product that you were sent to test.

Membership
Currently Toluna is only available for people based in the UK.

Payment Methods
Free Products (iPod's, Mobile Phones, etc)
Vouchers
Money (cheques)





The Great UK Survey
The Great UK Survey is a website that pays people to answer surveys online (currently only UK based).
By answering surveys sent via e-mail you will be placed into draws for big-cash prizes.

Membership
Currently The Great UK Survey is only available for people based in the UK.

Payment Methods
Money (cheques)





Nielsen Net Ratings
Nielsen Net Ratings is another very popular paid survey website which has one of the best rates of pay per survey completed.

Membership
Currently Nielsen Net Ratings is available for people all over the world.

Payment Methods
Vouchers
Money (cheques)






Survey Adventure
Survey Adventure is another very high paying survey website. They send out plenty of lucrative surveys to members of the site, and it is completely free to join and use Survey Adventure.

Membership
Currently Survey Adventure only accepts members from the USA.

Payment Methods
Paypal.
Cheque (cash).







Tiktikcash
Tiktikcash is an American based website that enables people to make money from answering surveys, taking part in offers and playing games. The main focus of the website is paid surveys.

Membership
Currently the Tiktikcash website is only available for people of the USA.

Payment Methods
Paypal.







Panda Research
Panda Research is another paid survey website based in America. Again you can get paid money to complete surveys and offers on their website.

Membership
Currently Panda Research is only available for people living in the USA.

Payment Methods
Paypal.







Permission Research
Permission Research is a website that monitors your online surfing and activities. By installing their toolware, you will be able to download free software and games, and have the chance to win big cash prizes.

Membership
Currently Permission Research is only available for people living in the USA.

Payment Methods
Free Products
Cheques (cash).







Lightspeed Opinons
Lightspeed Opinions is one of the most established paid survey websites available to join today. Not only do they pay a nice amount per survey completed, but they also send out lots of surveys for you to answer - thus enabling you to earn lots of money.

Membership
Currently Lightspeed Opinions only allows members from the USA, UK, Australia, and France.

Payment Methods
Paypal.
Free Products.
Money (cheques).







Opinion Square
Opinion Square is another paid survey website based in America, that pays people to answer surveys and to install software on their computer. The software monitors and tracks activity made online, and users get rewarded with cash and free products on their site.

Membership
Currently Opinion Square is only available for people based in the USA.

Payment Methods
Paypal.
Free Products.








Greenfield Online
Greenfield Online is one of the most popular paid survey websites, with a very healthy pay out rate per survey completed. Users can get paid cash to answer various types of interesting surveys (movies, sports, etc) and can also be entered into big cash draws.

Membership
Currently Greenfield Online is only available for people based in the USA and Canada.

Payment Methods
Cheque (cash).








ECN Research
ECN Research is a bit different from other paid survey sites as you aren't able to earn money to answer surveys - instead you are given the chance of winning amazing free products and valuable gift vouchers.

Membership
Currently ECN Research is only available for people based in the USA.

Payment Methods
Free Products.
Gift Vouchers.

There are some websites available to join for free who pay you to write product reviews.

These websites usually contain thousands of various household products, all of which you can review directly on their site.

You make money everytime someone reads and rates your product review, and also the best reviews will earn an extra cash bonus.

Usually you can earn around £3 or £4 per product review written, but if you can write to a good standard you can easily earn a lot more money - usually around £15 per product review.

Ciao

Ciao is probably the most well known product review website, with millions of users registered worldwide. You can get paid to write product reviews on thousands of products and services on their website.

Membership
Currently Ciao is available for people all over the world.

Payment Methods
Direct Bank Payment (cash)

This is one of the lesser known ways to make money online - uploading images on websites.

You can get paid for every person that views one of your images on the particular website. So every time someone clicks on one of your images to view it, you will earn some money.

The website earns money from displaying advertisements on the pages that display the images, and this is how they can afford to pay people to upload their own images on the site.

Share A Pic

Share A Pic is the most popular paid image upload website available today, with over 50,000 registered users worldwide.

People can log on to the website for free and upload images (no porn or copyright-protected material). Then they can either try and get people to view their images on the Share A Pic website, or they can download their own special image code which can be placed on various social websites - such as Myspace, Facebook, Bebo, etc. By using the image-code on these sites, you will earn money every time someone views one of your images. Therefore if you upload your image code to various sources online, you are greatly increasing your chances of earning money from Share A Pic.

You get paid a set amount of money per unique image view, and this set amount is dependant on the advertising revenue gained by Share A Pic.
The more image views you are able to obtain, the more money you can expect to get paid.

Membership
Anyone can join the Share A Pic site, all countries from around the world are eligible to join.

Payment Methods
Paypal.

One of the most "different" way to make money online in my opinion has to be by listening to music online.
There is a website that actually pays you to listen to music, directly on your website.

You need to open a free account at the site, and then visit the "scouting room". When there, you can listen to music on the online music-player. After listening to at least 60 seconds of the track, you can give the song a rating out of 10. You can also write a few words as a review of the song - saying whether you liked the song or not, and why etc.

You get paid for every track that you rate, and the payment rate starts at about 5p per track for beginners. After you become more established on the site, you could start getting paid 25p per track.

The website is called "Slice The Pie" and is aimed at getting smaller bands and musicians noticed by the public, helping them to build their profile and secure financial backing. You can even invest your own money into groups that you like on the site, and take a cut of any earnings that group makes in the future.

Slice The Pie

Another of my favourite ways to make money online has to be by playing the lottery online, using a syndicate website.

A lottery syndicate is basically a group of people that plays the lottery together - purchasing a set amount of lottery tickets each draw. If anyone wins an amount of money from the lottery, the winnings are divided equally between all members of the syndicate.

Therefore by playing the lottery with an online syndicate, you have a much greater chance of winning - around %600 percent more chance than a standard lottery player. It is also worth noting that 1 in 4 lottery jackpot wins are won by a syndicate.

Now by playing or joining an online lottery syndicate, it will cost you a minimum amount of £5 per week. This is £20 per month, or about £240 per year. This is quite a lot of money to be paying (I know I would usually just get about £2 tickets a week usually) but luckily there is a way around paying any money at all - and also there is a good opportunity to make a lot of money from it.

Basically you can earn commission for every person you introduce to the lottery syndicate. The payment rate is a minimum of £1 per week, for the lifetime of that syndicate member. Therefore if you can introduce just 5 people to the lottery syndicate, you could be playing completely free every week, for the lifetime of the syndicate players that you introduce.

Now if you could introduce more than 5 members, you will actually start getting a profit from the lottery syndicate - and will have found another way to make money online. You get a minimum of £1 per week per syndicate member introduced - so say you introduce 100 people, you will be earning £95 per week and will be playing in the syndicate for free as well.

Another great thing about the lottery syndicate program is that you can earn money from your referral's referrals. Say you introduce someone to join the syndicate, who goes on to introduce 1000 people. You will be earning around %10 of what he gains from referring 1000 people. So therefore you could be earning another £100 a week just from his own hard work.

Joining and playing an online lottery syndicate is a great, lucrative and residual way to make money online.

Join The Lottery Syndicate Website Here

For those of you who have a particular skill or service that you are able to perform, you will easily be able to cash in on this by using various webmaster forums.

Say for example you have experience or an interest in football. You could go to a webmaster forum, and someone might be requesting written-articles based upon the subject of football (perhaps they own a football website, but are a bit too busy to write up any content themselves.) They will post a message on the forum stating that they need someone to write some content for them, and they will also set a deadline (usually) and also a price that they will be willing to pay (sometimes you can name your price).

The webmaster forums are usually full of people who are looking to get some kind of content written for their website. They are often very busy people, and so will be willing to pay someone to help them out. So if you are able to write articles about various subjects, you should have no problems making money using your skill on a webmaster forum.

Writing is not the only skill that can be valuable at the webmaster forums. You will also find people with website/programming problems, most of which will be willing to pay someone to help them out. So if you have a good technical knowledge of various computing subjects, you should easily be able to earn some money from the webmaster forums.

There are a few major webmaster forums where most of the activity seems to take place. There are sections in the forums dedicated to people requesting/offering some kind of service, and all you need to do is join these forums (its completely free to do so) and then to get in contact with the people that you are willing to do work for.

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Recently a new Internet search engine has popped up, named WabbaDabba.

WabbaDabba is quite different from all the other search engines because you can win prizes simply for using the website!

WabbaDabba usually gives out a handful of excellent prizes every day, simply for performing searches on their search engine. The more times you search, the higher your chances of winning a prize!

At WabbaDabba you simply need to sign-up free to create an account, log-in, and then get searching (you are limited to around 100 searches per day). You can search more than 100 times but you won't be eligible to receive a prize that day.

Some of the prizes that WabbaDabba give out include Ipod's, plasma screen televisions, Amazon gift vouchers, and much more too!

WabbaDabba uses the Yahoo search engine to power its results, so it is a very reliable search engine.

Although this strictly isn't a way of making money online, it is still a very exciting and different way to receive some valuable prizes without actually risking anything. If you join WabbaDabba you can simply use them as your usual search engine and will be able to win some amazing prizes for doing so!

One of the other great things about the WabbaDabba website is the affiliate program. If you refer a friend who goes on to win say an Ipod, you will also win an Ipod! So if you can refer hundreds of people, and a handful of these win prizes, then you will win exactly the same prize just for referring them!

WabbaDabba is a highly recommended search engine, which is actually exciting to use - who would have thought that using a search engine could be so exciting!

Another very simple and quick way of making extra money by using the Internet is by using paid search websites.

Although you won't earn millions from using paid search engines, you should still be able to earn a fair amount of money simply by performing searches, as you would usually do, when using the Internet.

MySearchFunds is a bit like the previously mentioned paid search engine WabbaDabba, except that with WabbaDabba you have a chance to win various prizes - with MySearchFunds you earn a set amount of money for every search that you do. This means you are guaranteed money simply for using their search engine - there's no element of chance, you will get money for every search you make.

With MySearchFunds you simply open a free account at their website, and then visit their site and use it as you would use any other search engine such as Google or Yahoo. MySearchFunds uses Yahoo, Google and Ask to return the results of your searches. This means that you are getting the best search results and you are also getting paid for doing so.

At MySearchFunds you are limited to around 100 searches per day. This is because some people might try and cheat the system by randomly searching for the same words over and over, thus to generate more money. If MySearchFunds feel you are trying to make too much money from the site by over-searching you will get your account closed.

Once you have earned a set amount of money from searching you will be eligible for payment, which can be made via Bank Transfer or Paypal. You usually earn a few pence for every search made. You can also make money from referring other people to the MySearchFunds website.

Overall MySearchFunds provides Internet users with another excellent and simple way to make money online. If you don't already use a paid search engine then you are actually losing out on money - so it is highly recommended that you open a free account today and start getting paid to search online.

Click Here To Join MySearchFunds

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