Saving money with the Internet

15/07/2008 by dave.

With the credit crunch in full swing people are looking for new ways to make and save money. There are plenty of different sites online that can be used to save you money on all sorts of things, and other sites that can make you a few quid too.

• Voucher sites: Voucher sites can be used to save you money on all sorts of things when purchaced online, including top high street store like Comet, Next, John Lewis and even Tesco.
• Survey site: There are sites out there that pay you money to fill in online surveys, these site are easy to use but take some time to set up. Well worth the effort if you spend time on your computer in the evenings anyway. I use PureFile as I have read about several fake survey sites that don’t pay out.
• Squidoo: Squidoo is a social networking site where you make ‘lenses’ about a topic you know about and depending on who visits is and what is clicked on you can earn money. This is very hit and miss, and i’d have thought most of the interesting money making topics will have been covered to death already.
• Google Adsense: Google Adsense is for people who run websites (or even blogs) and are basicly the sponsored listings. When a link is clicked Google get money from the website the link goes to, and in return you get a fraction of that money. If you have a website this is a great way to cover the cost of your hosting (as long as you have traffic coming to your site) and can make you some extra cash if your site/blog is popular enough.

There are many more ways to gain some extra income online, but i will have to leave those for another blog post.

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