Free ways to make money online

With the American economy in crisis, many people are turning to the internet looking for ways to earn extra income. This is leaving the door open for many new online scams. It can be very hard for the average consumer to determine the difference between a legit site and a scam. Ads are placed on your site or blog, and you make money any time a visitor clicks on one of your ads.   My Free Guide To Making Money Online takes the system I use and brakes it down into 3 sections: Start a Blog or Website. Get ads to your Blog or Website. Increase traffic to your site.  Number 1 is very simple.You can set up a free blog at Blogger. com or many other sites.   Setting up a website is not that hard either.   There are many companies online that you can get free HTML templates from,  just do a search for “free html templates. “  Then get your site hosted. This can be done for as little as $3. 99 a month. Once you have a site or blog up and running, you’re ready to get ads. Adsense by Google is the best way for beginners to go.It’s free and very easy to set up.   There are many other sites online that will allow you to host ads on your page or blog but Adsense is easy to start with.   Affiliate programs also provide a high level of income for people with greater web traffic.