If you want to know how to make money online without spending any money read this article and follow the advice given. Every day there are people deciding they want to make money online and most of them will put a lot of effort and enthusiasm into it, at first. They will read everything they can and buy lots of ebooks, guides and courses on how to make money online. They will spend a lot of money and I bet that 90% of them give up after a few months with their tail between their legs and they tell their friends this Internet thing doesn't work. They will look back and wonder if they were mugs to spend all that money and wonder where it all went wrong.

Well, they weren't mugs and it wasn't exactly that they went wrong but the internet can be a hard nut to crack when you are new to it all. There are billions of pounds, dollars and Yen being made every month online by companies large and small. There are people working in their bedrooms raking in significant amounts of money every day. It can be done but it takes time to learn and it is all too easy to end up buying information and advice that never quite seems to get you where you want to be.

I suggest you start with a different approach. In this way of working you spend nothing at all and you build up slowly and learn how the internet and internet marketing works before you start spending money and not the other way around.

You start out by going to How To Make Money With Hubpages and read the article there about making money with hubpages. Next you sign up for a free account of your own. Click the 'make new page' link and decide on a subject for your first article. Don't worry too much about the first one. Use it as a test run for learning how you go about writing, editing, adding extra features and so on. It is all very straightforward but it may seem a little strange at first like anything new does.

Having got your feet wet setting up and publishing your first page you can start developing things a bit more. There's an article here about How To Make $1000 Per Month On Hubpages which makes interesting reading and it seems perfectly doable to me.

All you have to do is write an interesting article when you have some spare time. At first you may wonder why you haven't made any money but stick with it. Write more articles and over time you will find more visitors reading your pages and more clicks on adverts which make you money.

You get the benefit of being part of an authority site that google rates very well and your articles have every chance of appearing near the top of the search engines and getting traffic to your hubpages. All this costs you nothing at all and you avoid the problems of managing websites and servers and registering domain names. If you want to know how to make money online without spending any money I think this is the best way available right now.

If you found the secret to making money online, would you tell everybody else about it? I would say it is unlikely if you thought that other people knowing meant that you would make less money. There are plenty of ways to make money and thousands of different niches to focus on but if you had a specific answer to making money would you give it away?

So when you see people offering to sell you the secret you should ask yourself some questions.

1) If it makes thousands of dollars for a few hours work why are you selling it for $19.99,$47 or even $99? Surely it is worth more to the seller to keep and use that information than it would be to sell it even if they sold a couple of hundred copies. If it takes just a few hours to make a few hundred or a few thousand dollars it makes more sense for them to use their own system to make money rather than sell it and make less.

2)Is the system they are offering a complete package capable of achieving what they claim. If they try to sell you upgrades after you have purchased you should ask yourself if they are not being a little less than honest when the sales page claims to offer you the solution by itself. It could be they offer a way to automate the process that you would otherwise have to spend hours of tedious work to complete and that may be fair enough, so long as the sales page explains it will take you hours of tedious work unless you buy their upgraded package.

3) Is this a system that worked a year or two ago but is unlikely to work now? Many systems worked by hoodwinking the search engines in some way or another and the search engines are keen to close these loopholes as soon as they discover them.

4) How long did it take them to get all those visitors, or to make all that money. Claims like, I made xxx dollars in 1 hour 25 minutes sound great but it could be they spent 1 hour 25 minutes setting a website up and then months afterwards getting backlinks and promoting the site.

I am not picking on any particular seller or sales page here. All I am saying is that you should question any claims made and try to understand how much work will be required to use any of the plans, guides and systems on offer.

The simple fact is that most systems will work if you do it right and put enough effort and WORK into it. Yes, work. We may all dream of sitting on a beach enjoying the relaxing sound of the waves but most people who make a living online do have to spend quite a few hours actually working.

Pick a system that you understand and work at it. Focus is the key ingredient every successful person shares. You need a plan and you need to stay focused on the plan. Don't go getting side tracked by what someone with more mouth than trousers says on some forum. Many of the people who talk loudest on forums have very little actual experience and they are spouting off what they read somewhere else.

Put the effort into whichever system you plan to use and keep at it. Results may take a while to appear. Often it will be a couple of months before any significant changes will take place in the search engine results. There will be ups and downs and times when you wonder if you are wasting your time but stick with it and keep focused on each task until it is complete and the results will follow.

Learning is an important part of managing any business and you do need to stay up to date on what is happening but be careful with your time to ensure you don't end up wasting the time you could and should have been working building and promoting your websites.

The key lesson is to find the map to show you the right way and then remain focused on what you are doing and do it well until you complete it. That is the secret to success in business both online and off.

There has been a lot of talk recently about some changes that Google seems to be forcing on those people who have been producing blogger blogs and putting adsense on those blogs.

It may seem odd since blogger and adsense are both owned by the big G but there have been a lot of user producing hundreds of blogger blogs with adsense ads on them but little in the way of original content and it seems the powers that be have decided to clean up their system and get rid of these lightweight websites.

Some very well regarded, established blogs have been caught up in this change and while some have simply found their sites de-indexed by G others have had their sites taken down, never to be seen again. If you have put a lot of work into a website over many months that can be very upsetting but ultimately Blogger can do whatever they want. It is after all their main site and they decide on the rules.

This event emphasizes the importance of developing sites you can control by using your own domain name and renting server space to host the sites on. Use a good website backup system to keep copies of your sites and if anything goes wrong, whether it is a hacker taking down your site, your hosting company losing your files or any unforeseen disaster, you will be able to have your site up and running again in a short time.

If you want to develop a long term business with your websites the old ways are the best ways. Your own domain hosted on server space you control, publishing unique content that is of value to your visitors. It may take longer to build sites that make you money but over the long term you should have a business model that continues to work and keeps you on good terms with the search engine gods.