Writing articles: Articles are the back bone of the internet.  They are used as stand alone articles in directories for traffic generation and link building as well as content for websites, ebooks and almost everything you see or hear on the internet.

Writing ebooks: E-books are electronically delivered books, usually in pdf format that can be sell for upwards of $999 if the information is extremely specific and valuable.  Although most sell for between $7 and $97 with $47 being the center of that particular bell curve.  You can also use ebooks as a free giveaway to build a list you can email to over and over again.

Creating websites: Again, this is more about writing the content (articles!) for the website than the actual coding.  Although if you are good at coding, you should do fine (pitch your services at elance.com, guru.com and other job sites).  Using readily available free templates, you can create the content for a five to ten page website in about one day.  With a good domain name and topic that has a large enough audience, you can sell these to the highest bidder at sitepoint.com or hold onto them to make money for yourself.

If your site gets enough visitors a well place block of ads from Google’s AdWords program could generate up to a few thousand dollars per month if your topic gets enough traffic and the cost per click for the ads is high enough.

Affiliate marketing: Join a site like clickbank.com, pick a product and start promoting it.  You can create your one mini site or use any of the free blogging sites to promote your product.  Then, write and submit articles to promote your site.

I told you there was a lot of writing to be done.  But here’s one that’s not based on writing.

Photography: Take all the photos you want and submit them to sites like iStockphoto.com or iClipart.com.  You’ll get paid per download.  It’s not a lot of money per download but if you build a portfolio of hundreds or thousands of popular photographs, your monthly intake could get quite large.

There are the usual ‘get paid to’ programs, like taking surveys and reading emails, but even if they paid really well, most people tire of them quite quickly.  Feel free to give them a shot but after two or three surveys (ten to thirty minutes spent clicking on check boxes), you’ll see that your hourly rate will be dismal.