If you’ve done any investigation at all of Web marketing, you’ll know scams abound, no matter where you look. Unfortunately, marketers with no morals take advantage of the hordes of inexperienced people who are looking for better lives. It’s very sad, because millions probably get duped into spending money uneccessarily, only to get involved with scams or at least bad business ideas that line the marketers’ pockets and leave the buyers with nothing. Thankfully, methods abound for making money online with no up-front investment. 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 good opportunity. A good example of this is the recent controversy over an web business-in-a-box, called site Build It. Some believe that at least one person has written 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 would be up to any potential buyer to do his or her own research.

One of the most successful ways I’ve found to make money online is totally above-board and is also pretty easy. I make money writing. HubPages — a group blogging site –  makes it quite simple to generate content-based ad revenue. You can create as many or as few content “hubs” as you want. Each hub you create can make up to five types of revenue: eBay and Amazon products and services, Google AdSense and Kontera ads, and your own affiliate link(s). You get the revenue from 60% of the page views that generate income and the people who own HubPages get 40%. The exception to that would be if you implemented an affiliate program; you get one hundred percent of any income generated by someone clicking on an affiliate link. Writing good hubs takes a bit of practice but in my opinion, the money you can earn over time makes it worth the effort.

One of the affiliate programs I like to use on my hubs is RevResponse, because it provides great free information for people. When people click on links to any of the RevResponse publications or white papers and qualify, you make money. It’s just that easy. The qualifying part is the catch though, so you have to understand that aspect. To learn more about the RevResponse rules, you might want to check out this RevResponse affiliate review. It will help you determine whether signing up is worth the time it would take to sign up.