There are many ways to earn money online, but if you’re just starting out or are new to the game you probably don’t have a whole lot of money to invest up front, at least not yet anyways.

So, I decided to write you a handy little guide that will give you some ideas of how to earn money online without paying anything.

The first thing I’d recommend for you is to start a blog. You can do so via Blogger.com or WordPress.com There are two options to consider initially when creating a blog.

1. Free hosted blogs or…
2. Hosting it yourself.

The first option is free; however you give up some of the security and back up options among other reasons like limited disk space.

The second option is preferred, but you will need to pay a monthly fee for web hosting. Although there are some free hosting companies out there I don’t usually recommend using them.

The reason I say this is, just because you’re not paying them money, there is often a catch. Like, banner ads they place on your page, or unreliable hosting, I.E. their hosting may go down on occasion therefore your site goes down too until they fix the problem.