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In years long past, typing at home jobs could be found. People built entire businesses around typing up other people’s reports, essays and even books. (This may be showing my age here!) There may be a few remaining assistants who will take an old guy’s notes and turn them into a manuscript, but not many.

Why have typing at home jobs gone the way of the dinosaur? Because everyone has a computer now, or a laptop or even a phone that can create typed documents with ease. For those without fast typing speeds, there is voice recognition software.

On the internet, typiing at home jobs get advertised fairly regularly. They attempt to pull people in with promises of easy money for typing just a few hours each day. Those who are unused to the marketing-speak of the online world often get sucked into paying “just” $29.95 to learn more about this exciting opportunity! (Is the sarcasm coming through okay?)

But there are no such things as typing at home jobs anymore. There may be some virtual assistant jobs, but you won’t find employers advertising them with flash websites and videos about how you can move to Maui in two years. You’ll find them just like any other telecommuting job out there… on a job site or in the newspapers.

What are these typing at home jobs then? What exactly are these people advertising?

First of all, NEVER pay $29.95 (or any other amount) for the opportunity to work or to get a supposed job. Second of all, get savvy about how people make money on the internet. There are three potential reasons someone would want you to start typing at home for them.

1) Typing advertisements onto classified sites or even paying for ads in papers

2) Typing articles you come up with  yourself (also called writing!)

3) Typing forum posts, comments or blurbs on sites… pretending you are interested in the topic but really spamming links or ads (which is really annoying and morally questionable)

How does this tie into how people make money on the internet? The top two ways to make money online is by selling information, sometimes through affiliate programs, or freelance writing. These typing at home jobs have you doing things - and making a fraction of the actual profit - that could be done directly by you to build a considerable income.

Stop trying to find typing at home jobs or opportunities, and think about what people really want. It’s not typing. They can do that themselves. It’s content, or advertising. If you can create good content or advertising, you can make money for yourself.

Thousands of freelance writers, stay at home moms and dads, college students, and other people looking to make some extra money turn to paying sites for article writing online. Writing articles, or web copy, can be an effective way of adding to your income. However, amid all of the companies that can assist you in making money, there are plenty of nonpaying sites for article writing as well.

Learning how to spot these non paying sites for article writing is of the utmost importance if your goal is to build a sustainable income. After all, who wants to spend their time and energy writing articles that will do nothing for them?

How to Spot Non Paying Sites for Article Writing