23 Best Ad Networks For Publishers (2016 Edition)

Whenever someone talks about monetization, invariably, the first thing that pops up into the mind is Google AdSense. And while there’s nothing particularly wrong with that—it is, after all, the world’s largest ad network, but to sit on an assumption that AdSense can’t be outdone by anyone isn’t wise.

The ad tech industry is highly disruptive and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Google has competitors who give them a good run for their money.

It may take a lot of hit and trial to figure out which ad network, or even combination of ad networks, generate the highest revenue for you, but when you finally do figure it out—it would have been well worth the effort.

Here are a few networks that you must check out in 2015.

1. Adsterra Network

Adsterra is one of the fastest growing premium ad networks and currently serves over 50 billion geo-targeted ad impression each month. They support publishers from all verticals and guarantee 100% monetization of their ad inventory.

Adsterra offers a vast variety of effective ad formats in all popular sizes for both web and mobile including: Pushup, interstitial, display banners, popunders, sliders, and direct links. Each campaign is tested hourly through an automated verification software designed by GeoEdge, ensuring the highest possible ad quality and security.

Publishers also enjoy on-time payments made bi-weekly via major payment systems, as well as a personal account manager and real-time statistics.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA
Minimum traffic: 300,000

2. Revcontent

Revcontent is one of the biggest content recommendation platforms on the internet, currently serving 100 billion content recommendations a month across the globe with a growth rate of 900% last year.

Revcontent is notoriously difficult to join as it rejects almost 98% of websites that apply – focusing more on the quality of its publisher network rather than the quantity. This strategy has helped Revcontent generate higher revenues, better engagement rates, and loyal audiences for their partners.

As part of product improvement efforts, they’ve just launched Revcontent v2, which features an intuitive user interface that enables transparent reporting and easier customization of widgets.

Model: CPC
Minimum traffic: N/A

2. AdBlade

AdBlade is a premium, brand-safe ad network with a focus on quality over quantity. Fox News, Hearst Corporation, Yahoo!, and ABC are among the 1,000 or so publishers that comprise the network. AdBlade supports standard IAB units, as well as proprietary NewsBullets® units that claim to deliver up to 3x better performance.

Model: CPM, CPC
Minimum traffic: 500,000 monthly impressions

Revenue Hits uses contextual and geo-targeted ad serving technology to deliver better revenue for their publishers across different types of properties such as websites, mobile sites, add-ons, widgets, toolbar, and many more.

It serves over two billion ad impressions each day with a promise of 100% fill rate across all geographic regions.

Other than display ads, Revenue Hits also lets publishers monetize their website using text ads, pop ups, apps, widgets, XML feeds, and other custom formats.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA, CPV, Auction
Minimum traffic: None

4. Undertone

Undertone specializes in providing several high-impact ad formats in addition to standard IAB—including IAB rising stars, several video formats, and its own range of flagship display formats designed for higher user engagement.

This coupled with the fact that many of Undertone’s proprietary ad units use your ad inventory in non-traditional ways, ensuring there’s no cannibalization of existing ad products, means that Undertone can offer CPMs 100%-1500% higher than traditional display ads.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA, CPV
Minimum traffic: 500,000

5. BidVertiser

Though your mileage may vary, Bidvertiser is an ad network with an interesting monetization model: In addition to earning money for each ad that is clicked, the publisher also earns additional revenue when the click leads to a conversion (i.e. sale) for the advertiser.

BidVertiser supports multiple ad formats including banners, skyscrapers, rectangles, and mobile. You can use the provided point-and-click tool to customize the layout of these units to match your website’s look.

A bidding system ensures that publishers always get the highest possible revenue from each unit. Using the reporting interface, you can easily monitor your ads performance, clicks, click-through rate, and the total amount you’ve earned.

Model: CPM, CPC
Minimum traffic: None

6. Vibrant Media

Vibrant Media is another ad network that offers specialty ad formats such as in-text, in-image, lightbox, storyboard, mosaic, and brand canvas in addition to the standard IAB display ad units.

Depending on your needs, you can choose to use Vibrant Media as your primary display ad network or you can employ their native ad solutions to increase revenue without changing your existing ad configuration

Ads are responsive so they can be delivered across multiple platforms seamlessly.

Model: CPM, CPC
Minimum traffic: None

7. Clicksor

Clicksor serves over 900 million ad impressions on over 100,000 specialized websites that comprise its publisher network. In addition to regular banner ads, Clicksor also offers in-text ads, rich media, interstitials, and pop-unders as alternative ad formats.

Under the hood, Clicksor scans the text on your website and serves ads using the latest contextual technology, resulting in a higher click-through rate.

Installation is a breeze with Clicksor’s plugin for Blogger, WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla that you just need to download and activate to get going.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPV, CPI
Minimum traffic: None

8. Advertising.com

Advertising.com, is the technology, data and insights arm of AOL Advertising. It has relationships with 70+ of comScore’s Top 100 ad-supported sites, with a publisher network spanning 30+ content verticals and monetizes nearly 2 billion ad impressions per day on average.

If you’re looking for a specific set of advertisers, Advertising.com offers ad blocks by advertiser, industry, media, and category to ensure the best fit for your site.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA
Minimum traffic: 300,000 monthly impressions

9. Creafi Online Media

Creafi Online Media serves over 300 million ad impressions daily and hinges its USP on advanced audience targeting methodologies such as behavioral targeting, retargeting, and semantic targeting.

When advertisers can customize who sees their ads based on behavior and context using these tools, ad performance shoots up and it’s a win-win for both them and the publishers. To publishers, Creafi offers multiple ad formats and revenue streams and a greater degree of control over ad inventory.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPV
Minimum traffic: 1,000,000

10. Epom Market

Epom Market is a cross-platform ad network associated with leading advertisers and publishers in over 40 countries across 15 verticals. The network serves 13 billion ad impressions reaches an audience of 320 million unique monthly visitors per month.

It offers category-targeted, mobile, and local ads to ensure better user targeting, which lead to higher eCPM rates. In addition to standard banner ads, Epom also supports footer, in-text, and mobile-specific ad units.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA, Auction
Minimum traffic: 500,000

11. Media Nexus

Media Nexus is an ad network that works with fortune 500 and global brands, with some being exclusive to their network.

This means that ads served by the network are usually of high quality and add to a user’s experience (instead of taking away from it).

The network serves six distinct verticals and offers publishers monthly payments, a dedicated account manager, high eCPMs, and 100% fill rates.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPV
Minimum traffic: 5,000,000

12. Haxhax

Haxhax is a premium, brand-safe private marketplace with over 100 handpicked premium publishers serving video, rich media, mobile and traditional display. Haxhax provides comprehensive reporting, multi-screen ad servicing, and an auto-invoicing system to get your payouts on time.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPV, Auction
Minimum traffic: 500,000

13. Infolinks

Traditional banner ads have one big problem that results in big revenue losses: A lot of users either consciously or subconsciously ignore them because ads are usually viewed as an intrusion.

Infolinks is an ad network that gets around this problem by offering an innovative set of ad formats called InFold (overlay ads), InText (text links ads), InTag (tag cloud ads), and InFrame (banner ads in margins and frames) that result in better SEO, less intrusion, increased relevance, and better space utilization.

Model: CPC
Minimum traffic: 500,000

14. Media.net

Media.net serves ads from the Yahoo! Bing contextual ad network, which comprises of a large pool of national and local advertisers, ensuring a 100% fill rate across all verticals and ad formats.

Some of Media.net’s publishers include Forbes, Elle, Reuters, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and more. The network supports standard IAB sizes and has access to high quality ads from all major DSPs.

In addition to display units, Media.net also supports desktop interstitial, in-content native, and mobile docked ads.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA
Minimum traffic: None

15. PropellerAds

PropellerAds support banner ads in all standard sizes such as 728×90, 300×250, 160×600, 120×600, and more apart from onclick and in-banner video ad formats. If the ads are positioned strategically, you can expect CPMs as much as 1-2$ for US and UK inventory.

They have 3,000 active campaigns worldwide and perform manual checks to remove all unsafe and suspicious advertisers—ensuring high ad quality.

Publishers get the benefit of a 100% monetized inventory, in-time payouts, a personal account manager, and detailed real-time reporting.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA
Minimum traffic: None

16. BlogAds

An ad network that specifically caters to bloggers, BlogAds represents thousands of premier blogs such as PerezHilton, DailyKos, Wonkette and Cute Overload. Set up is easy and you can manage multiple sites from one account.

BlogAds offers a high level of control over your advertising by letting you determine which ad sizes to offer, set your own prices, customize the appearance of ads, and accept or reject ads.

There are no monthly fees; instead, BlogAds keep 14% of sales made to your readers. Most common IAB ad sizes are supported. It’s worth a try if you’re a blogger who wants to try an alternative to AdSense.

Model: CPC, CPA
Minimum traffic: None

17. PulsePoint

PulsePoint is an ad network that processes 110 billion ad transactions each month across its platform. They’re big on data-driven ad optimization—crunching about 20TB of it every day.

Their proprietary contextual ensures better ad targeting and increase relevance, giving publishers the opportunity to monetize impressions buyers would normally overlook. There are no sign up fees or hidden costs.

Model: CPM
Minimum traffic: None

18. Conversant (ValueClick Media)

Conversant runs campaigns for 5,000+ brands every month, increasing the chances of finding an ideal fit for all content verticals. A real-time publisher interface offers fully transparent campaign reporting along with activity and revenue data.

Their cross-platform advertising solutions ensure that publishers are able to maximize their revenue from mobile devices.

In addition to standard display, they offer ads in multiple other formats such as in-text rollovers, static, rich media, banners, over the page and more.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA
Minimum traffic: None

19. AdCash

AdCash is one of the foremost advertising networks and provides high-quality ads from leading brands and exclusive pricing models designed to effectively monetize their online content and increase revenue.

AdCash supports all industry standard as well as exclusive display formats such as site under, footer, interstitial, slide-in, background, and more. It has over 1,000 ad campaigns running on its platform—the big inventory means better ad targeting.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA
Minimum traffic: None

20. Chitika

A popular alternative to AdSense, Chitika has over 350,000 publishers on its network and serves over four billion ads per month, making it one of the largest ad networks in the world if you were to go by those metrics.

Its proprietary targeting and optimization technology uses programmatic buying to serve precisely the right ad, at the right time. The approval process for new publishers is usually pretty straightforward and takes little time.

Model: CPC
Minimum traffic: None

21. Tribal Fusion (acquired by Exponential)

The CPM rates of Tribal Fusion is amongst the highest in the industry and they offer reliable payments, dedicated account manager, real-time reporting, and free ad-serving technology.

You can control the content of ads by blocking ad categories (i.e. gambling, religious, political, alcohol, flashing, warning, etc.) or by specific advertiser domain names.

Based on content of the website, Tribal Fusion’s server finds the best advertiser-audience fit in real-time, benefitting both the advertiser and the publisher.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA, CPV
Minimum traffic: 500,000

22. WWW Promoter

WWW Promoter offers publishers high fill rates, competitive CPMs, advanced targeting, and efficient ad serving using its proprietary ad serving technology.

They focus on building a network that comprises of trusted brands and advertisers, eliminating the possibility of low-quality ads being served. The inhouse ad platform has a reporting tool that helps publishers track their CPMs in real-time.

Model: CPM, CPC, CPA, CPV
Minimum traffic: 1,000,000

12 Ways To Make Money Online From Home Without Investment

‘Make Money Online‘ is treated as a secondary source of income in past. Now a days, people are working hard and generating handsome money by working online. They had quit their jobs to make money online. For long term online income we have to build an strategy and implement it in most efficient way. Some of the long terms money making ideas are slow but very effective to make money online. Some ideas seems to be very easy but are short turn ideas to earn money. You have to select the best  method which suits your needs (long or short term). All the ways to make money online detail here are legal. Now, you have so many questions in mind that
1.) Is it really possible to make money online for living?Yes, anyone can make money online. You have to choose the right path which suits your skills. The most important skill is hard work and dedication. Without hard work and motivation you can only earn money in short term not in long term. In my opinion, blogging is the best method for earn money in long term. Many people are earning from blogging for a luxury life.
2.) How much time it will take to start the earning?It can take anywhere from 1 month to 1 year depending the method you had selected and your hard work. For example blogging can take from 6 month to 1 years to get your 1st income. While referral income you can get in 1 month also.
3.) How much money we can earn from working online?Again income depend on you hard work, dedication and strategy. But just for your reference people are earning 7 to 10 figure income (in USD) by working online from home.
Best Ways To Make Money Online From Home Using Internet
18 Ways To Make Money Online From Home Using Internet Without InvestmentWe had searched the internet for couple of days and bring the best possible methods to earn money online. We are explaining each method here with some reference websites link. Most of the ideas to make money online is without investment. You can make money online by selecting the idea best suited to your skills.
1.) Make Money Online From BloggingMaking money from blogging is the proven & long term idea to generate income. I have seen many people earning huge money from there reputed websites. It is a difficult method and need really hard work. Create a website or blog for yourself  and post some valuable content. Content must be genuine & not copied from other website. Content is also have those topic for while people will search. After getting traffic from search engines you can apply for Google Adsense Account or sell space on your website for advertisement.
Make Money Online From Blogging
2.) Make Money Online With Affiliate MarketingAffiliate marketing is another popular way to make money online without investment. An Affiliate is an person who sells the product on their website or by auction on other websites. You have to so the same thing & have sell the product/services of original manufacturing by acceptable means. For every successful transaction with your reference give you commission from seller. In affiliate marketing you don’t have to buy the product, you only have to sign-up with that company for a referral link or code. E-commerce giant Amazon has an affiliate program with name of Amazon Associates & another popular affiliate marketing site is Commission Junction. You can also search for local affiliate marketing company.
Make Money Online From Affiliate Marketing
3.) Make Money Online as a FreelancerEarning money as a freelancer is another popular idea to earn money. Freelancing is the great idea for professionals who are expert in any respective skill. That skill can be anything like content writer, Logo Designer, selling, buying, link building, website design, software development etc. If you know two or more languages, you can also earn money by translating written documents to another language. There are so many website on which you can easily find a freelancer job and earn money. You have to find a project or task posted on this website. Then you have to apply for the project with proof or sample that you are capable to do that work. There may be another freelancer bidding together with you. You have to bid in such a way that you are reasonable and with in budget. Some of the popular freelancer websites are Elance, Freelancer, Guru,Odesk.
Make Money Online as Freelancer
4.) Make Money Online From Paid SurveysYou can also earn from paid surveys without any investment. Online survey will not require any expert skills and hard works. There are so many websites on which you can register and start earning. You have to create a free account and start taking participate in surveys. Survey income is small than the other method because it will finish in very small time. Few things needs to be check before selecting a survey website. What is the minimum threshold they will pay? They will pay in your country or not? They have a good background for payment to others? Here we found an interesting article about “how online surveys works” with list of 20 popular survey websites. You can read the complete article here.
Make Money Online From Surveys
5.) Make Money Online From E-tutions/WebinarsNow a days demand for tutors is growing rapidly. If you have skills to help someone learn fast then e-tutions will open gates for your to make money. Only thing you need to be expert in your subject and few spare hours in week to e-tutions. Some of the popular websites are Tutor.com, E-tutor.com, & tutorvista.com. You can also find some popular in your country or area. If you are confident about your skills, you surely become popular among the students. After getting popularity you can also have opportunities to give webinars-lecture or seminars. Both can be transmitted over the internet & popular websites. College and university students are willing to pay extra also for a good, well-respected webinars.
Make Money Online From E-tutions/Webinars
6.) Make Money Online From Audio/Video EditingYou can earn money if you know about audio/video editing and can provide the professional service for editing. Now a days many websites, blog or companies wants their audio/videos to be edit before publish them to their or social media websites. You can easily find so many opportunity regarding this and easily earn money. You can find these kind of jobs on Freelancer.com, Odesk.com & elance.com.
7.) Make Money Online From Mystery Shopper Jobs
Mystery Shopping as the name suggested is a mystery for few people. It is true that you can anywhere from $200 to $1400 & more in year by becoming online mystery shopper. Only thing you have to remember that never pay for application for this kind of jobs. Also, never transfer money after receiving e-check or something. Genuine companies never ask money from your at any stage. We had found an article explaining about mystery shopper jobs and prevention you have to take. You can read the complete article here.
8.) Make Money Online by Selling Stock PhotosYou can also earn money by selling your stock photos on different website. Website & Blog owners wants many photos to publish them on their website with articles. Software developers also want some professional pictures for their products. If you have some good stock royalty free images, you can sell them to earn money. There are so many websites on which you can sign-up for free. After signing-up share your stock and price. For very valid download you will get money as discussed & fixed while sharing the stock.  Some of the popular websites to sell your photos are fotolia.com , shutterstock.com & istockphoto.com.
Make Money Online By Selling Photos
9.) Make Money Online by Playing ContestYou can also earn money by playing online contest with free entry & having cash/coupons in prize. Now, a days so may websites/online companies arrange an online contest and encourage people to take part in contests. These contests are for their promotions & feedback also. During the contest they may ask you to fill a survey form about their product also. Recently Facebook & Google also start organizing contest to report the bug. These companies already paid millions of dollars for the genuine bug submission. Recently Facebook had paid an amount of $14,000 to an Indian engineer to find a bug. You can also search this kind of contest on Google. You can search for “Free gaming contest with prize”, “Free writing competition with cash prize” & may more.
10.) Make Money Online With CPA (Cost Per Action) ProgramYou can easily make money online with the help of cost per action program. Like in affiliate marketing you get paid after an sale is completed and order is processed. But in CPA program you will get money for every action done by the customer/referral. For example you have a website for articles for insurance or travel advice. If some one comes on your website and provide the e-mail id or phone number to start discussing the product. For every action you will get paid like for giving phone number or e-mail id. Peerfly.com is a popular website for Cost Per Action program.
11.) Make Money Online by Writing Quality ArticleIf you have good writing skills then you can use them to produce money for you. There are so many website who can paid handsome money for their free lancer content writer. They will write awesome good content article for their website and in return they get paid by the website owner. About.com and so many other big website also hire freelancer for writing content. You can also check www.payperpost.com & www.helium.com to make money.
12.) Make Money Online From YouTubeYes, you can also earn money by uploading & sharing videos on YouTube. As you know YouTube is a popular website for watching videos. If you have some interesting videos you can upload that video after signing-up free account with YouTube. Sometimes you will get and invitation from YouTube to join per per click advertisement program or you can also apply for same after getting at-least 1000 views from your videos. After applying & approval from YouTube a small video will automatically will display during your video streaming. You will get the money for every advertisement click. Don’t try to scam since your IP, Country location, Browser Cookies & so many thing are tracked.

40 easy ways to make money quickly

1. No-risk matched bettingHands down the quickest way to make a lot of money (well, without breaking the law). Lots of students have genuinely made £100s from this technique. It’s completely legal, risk free, tax free, and anyone can do it.
   It works by taking advantage of free bets regularly offered by betting sites through ‘matching’ them at a betting exchange. Matched betting eliminates the risk (you are betting both for and against a certain outcome).
   This leaves you being able to squeeze out the free bet, which can be as much as £200! Multiply this by how many betting sites there are and you can quite easily come away with a profit of a few hundred pounds.
   Owen walks you through how to make your first £15 profit (using a real life example) in this gem of a guide to matched betting. If you know of any better way to make £30/hr sitting at home, please let us know!
2. Online surveysCredit: Julio Marquez – Flickr.com
   An increasingly popular way for students to make money is to fill out online surveys in their spare time. Research companies are always recruiting new members to answer surveys and test new products.
   For a few minutes of form filling, you can make a couple of quid which is paid as cash or rewards. You can bag up to £3 ($5) for some surveys!
   A few good ones to try are: Toluna, Vivatic, MySurvey, The Opinion Panel, OnePoll, SurveyBods, Valued Opinions, YouGov, iPoll, Global Test Market, Hiving, PanelBase, Harris Poll, Opinion Outpost, Your word, Pinecone, IPSOS, New Vista.
   Also sign up for Swagbucks which rewards you for surveys as well as simply surfing the web, watching videos and playing games.
   Update: See our new full guide to the best paid online surveys!
3. Paid for searching the webInterested in earning cash for doing what you already do online? This has to be one of the easiest methods of making money online without really any effort or change in your behavior.
   This innovative idea by Qmee.com rewards you for searching in Google, Bing or Yahoo. You just install a simple add-on to your browser and when you conduct a search there may be a few sponsored results alongside your normal search.
   Each Qmee result has a cash reward attached – if you are interested in it simply click on it and collect your reward.
   The best thing is there is no minimum to cashout – our first one was just 72p wired to our Paypal account. You also have the option to donate it to charity.
   Sign up now for free and start earning from your own searches! Click here to start.
4. Social Investment NetworksThe historically hard-to-break world of investing in stock markets and currencies has been cracked wide open. Today there is no need to be a fat cat or fund the yachts of Wolf of Wall Street style stock brokers. You can do it all yourself with the help of free online market trading platforms.
   Having spent many hours researching this new opportunity, I’ve been experimenting with eToro.com which has over 4 million users worldwide. It was recently featured in the BBC 2 documentary “Traders: Millions by the Minute” and the Financial Times.
   One of the best things on eToro is the CopyTrader feature. This lets you literally see, follow and copy the investments of other top performing traders.
   Follow George’s complete guide to trading on eToro to learn more. I think $200 is a good amount to get the most out of the learning curve by trying out a few different markets. If nothing else you’ll learn a great deal about various investments and industries.
   Warning: trading can be volatile and you can lose money, so don’t throw your life savings into it!
5. Sell your notesIf you don’t mind sharing your notes with other students it’s a great way to generate a little extra cash. There are sites out there that you can upload your notes to, along with your price, and then when another student downloads them you get paid.
   Sites like Notesale are free for you to list your notes but tend to take a cut of your profit in order to handle the marketing etc so that you don’t have to go out there and promote your notes yourself.
   You will most likely have to upload PDFs but it’s worth it for the return and you can submit handwritten notes but you’re likely to make more money if they’re typed up.
6. Review websites & apps for cashWell it seems like you’re pretty nifty with a web browser, so perhaps it’s time to turn pro and browse websites as a paid and fun job!
   Introducing UserTesting.com – a new platform that pays everyday people to review all kinds of websites. Each review takes around 20 minutes and bags you $10 (£6.50) via Paypal.
   Simply sign up here, complete a test review and look forward to receiving websites in your inbox.
7. The ‘Disney Vault’ secretTo keep demand high across generations, Disney Studios carefully restrict the supply of some home release classics. They are locked away in the ‘vault’ for 8-10 years before being released for a short unspecified time.
   Buy them in this window at normal retail price and you can turn a nice profit when they go off sale for another decade or so.
   For example, in 2011 you could buy Beauty and the Beast on Blu-ray 3D for just £24.99. In just a couple of years it was on Amazon for a staggering £74.99!Importantly, not all Disney releases are subject to the vault and only the true classics will maintain such demand.
   Right now there are just 2 titles out of the vault which I would recommend snapping up. They are Bambi Diamond Edition Blu-ray and Cinderella Diamond Edition Blu-ray.
8. ‘Get Paid To’ sitesSimilar to making money from online surveys, GPT sites reward you in cash and vouchers for completing various offers or activities online.
   The most popular sites today are Toluna,Swagbucks, InboxPounds and PaidOffers.
   Exciting update! We’ll soon be launching our own GPT service for our readers. Invites will be limited and UK only, please join our mailing list if you’re interested in hearing once it’s live:
9. Start your own websiteIf you’ve ever seen the film The Social Network then you’ve most likely had your brain spinning as to what website you can start-up to make you billions.
   And of course there are lots of stories out there about successful students who have started a site while at university, or even bought a domain name and later sold it for 1000s.
   In fact, Save the Student is one such example of a website started at university by Owen Burek in his first year, which has since grown into a full-time and successful enterprise.
   Read Owen’s 4-step guide to setting up a website if you’re interested in finding out more. It’s really not that difficult to get started and there are plenty of opportunities to make money online.
10. Write and publish a Kindle eBookIf students are good at anything, it’s researching and writing. With theAmazon Kindle store, anyone can publish an eBook and make money.
    And the Kindle app is now available on almost any device (laptops, iPads, smartphones and yes, Kindles) so your global market is huge!
    List your book for £1.49 – £6.99 and you earn 70% of the sale. Considering Amazon is the ultimate selling machine (and remember people are looking to spend), that is a fantastic deal.
    The key to success with eBooks is to create value, and write non-fiction. Simply bundling information you have researched and complied on a common problem (eg. ‘secrets’ to finding a job) and then presenting it in an easy to digest format (an eBook) justifies someone spending a few quid on it.
    Another big tip is to have a great cover designed so it stands out, and once your book is live on the Kindle store it’s really important to get some reviews so it shows up higher in results. Encourage readers to leave an honest review at the end of your book.
    The best thing about this lucrative idea is that once you’ve invested the time (say 20 hours), you’ll earn a passive income for years to come! For a step-by-step guide to publishing and earning with eBooks, see “How to write a nonfiction eBook in 21 days“.
11. Affiliate marketingIf you’ve got a good presence on social media or perhaps you even have a blog or website, you can start bringing in money immediately by promoting all sorts of companies, products, services and offers online.
    Sign up to an affiliate network such as Affiliate Window, check their offers blog or browse the merchant listings to find something you think your friends would be interested in, grab your affiliate link and share it. If someone buys (can be within up to 90 days) using your link you’ll make a nice commission.
    To take it a step further, set up a website (read our guide) or a topical Facebook page and invite all your friends to join it and post your affiliate offers on there.
12. Mobile phone recyclingCredit: CannedTuna – Flickr.com
    See how much you can get for your old mobile phone using our in-housemobile phone price comparison tool! Maybe ask your parents if they have any lying around too.
    You can get some good money and help the environment by recycling mobile phones with certain companies listed on the comparison tool. But be aware: you won’t always get the quoted cash since it depends on ‘condition’. We recommend Mobile Cash Mate for the fairest and highest payouts in most cases (they sent us a £203 cheque for an iPhone 5).
13. Become a ‘Clickworker’
    
    The Clickworker.com concept is based on ‘internet crowd-sourcing’ where businesses advertise specific, scalable tasks they need completing quickly. And for us, it’s an easy way to make fast cash from our couch.
    There are a variety of tasks, but most commonly they involve mindless data entry, web research or form filling. You are rewarded and paid in cash (via Paypal) for the work you do, and you can choose for what and when you work. Give it a go. [If you’re US based, also try Amazon’s ‘Mechanical Turk‘].
14. Claim tax backMany students work part-time or during the summer months, and others will be on placements or paid internships. More often than not, if you are a student working during the year, you will be overpaying income tax.
    Why? Simply because few students reach the personal tax-free income allowance each year but are put on an emergency basic tax-code by their employers meaning tax is being paid when it shouldn’t be.
    Use our student tax-back service to help you reclaim any tax you should not have paid. Just enter your details in the calculator here to work out what you may be owed. Otherwise for more information read our guide on claiming tax back here.
15. Get cashback when shoppingI earned this much in 2 years
    This is not only a way to make money but also to save money as a student. If you look at it in a different way then you are making money with every purchase you would have made anyway, whether it be 10% or 0.5% cashback.
    There are a number of cashback sites out there which pay you the commission they otherwise would have earned.
    We recommend signing up with Top Cashback, Quidco.com & Swagbucks which are free and offer the best selection of retailers and exclusives.
16. A part-time jobA part-time job is the obvious first choice, opted for by most students looking to supplement their student loan. It provides a pretty steady flow of income and can enable you to gain valuable work experience.
    However, depending on where you live, jobs are not always easy to find. Check local classifieds, our student job search, student job websites and your university careers service for vacancies.
    It’s also worth signing up with the Graduate Recruitment Bureau, a free service which will match you with both part-time jobs or graduate opportunities.
    Read our guide to finding a part-time job whilst studying for more tips.
17. Gigs on FiverrFiverr is now the world’s largest marketplace for people to make money selling small services (known as ‘gigs’).
    What you offer could be absolutely anything, from writing and translating,social media posting, playing pranksand teaching to creating music, voiceovers and short video clips for people all around the world!
    The default price is $5 (hence Fiverr..), but you can attach extra services to gigs for more money. Whilst it might not seem like much, it can quickly add up and there are plenty of examples of people making a really good living from the site. The key is to get a system in place which minimises the time spent on each gig.
    But there is another way to profit even more from Fiverr for potentially far less work. How? By simply reselling gigs elsewhere. For example, find a decent logo designer then reply to jobs on Elance or even local classifieds. A $5 spend can easily become $50+, and it’s repeatable!
    If you’re not interested in selling at all there’s SO much good stuff you can get done for yourself. Have a browse and get inspired!
18. Review music for moneyIf you love music, make it your business by reviewing unsigned bands and artists online for cash with Slicethepie.
    It can take a while to build up your reputation but some users of the site have said that they earn £40 a month. This may not sound like much, but if it’s something you enjoy then it shouldn’t be hard work and is another thing for your CV. Money you earn will be in $US but anyone can sign up and review.
    To get started, head over to Slicethepie now or read our quick guide for more info.
19. Sell second-hand course booksOne great way to make money is to buy other students’ text books at the end of the year, and then sell them just after freshers’ week – when the new intake of students know that they need them!
    You can either advertise on campus or list them online very easily onAmazon.co.uk Books Trade-In (just bear in mind they take a commission on books sold).
    For more tips on selling items online click here.
20. CompetitionsEntering competitions of course comes with no guarantees, but there is a growing community of so-called ‘compers’ in the UK consistently making up to £50,000 a year through all sorts of competitions.
    Types of competitions available to enter range from simple registration forms and Facebook page liking to answering questions correctly over the phone to being a TV game show contestant. Imagine you made it ontoDeal or No Deal instead of just watching it!
    Start by entering our very own monthly student competition (Like our Facebook page to see when our next one is)!
    Then head to our active competitions page to enter other free competitions that we have found. Just note that some of these sites may send you spam so use an alias email address and opt-out of as many of the offers as possible.
    For loads more tips on achieving success and making money from competitions, read our guide to entering competitions.
21. Buy and sell domain namesA domain name is just a website address (eg. ‘savethestudent.org’ or ‘mysite.co.uk’) and there are lots of extensions (.com, .net, .co.uk etc).
    They cost as little as £1.99 to register with 123-reg.co.uk or GoDaddy.comyet premium domain names can fetch £1,000s if not millions when sold on. In 2007 VacationRentals.com went for a cool $35m!
    Now you’re probably not going to come across anything like that, but you can still turn a quick profit with a bit of searching. The trick is to find available domain names which have some commercial value, snap them up and then list them for sale on a site like Sedo.com.
22. Mystery shoppingToday becoming a mystery shopper is easier than you think and you can get rewarded handsomely.
    We’ve recently come across a really fun smartphone app called Roamler that pays you in cash for completing various tasks in your local area. So definitely check that out first!
    More traditionally, there are plenty of agencies that pay you to visit all sorts of shops to feedback on how they are performing. For more info on where to apply see our guide to becoming a mystery shopper.
23. Be an extraDo you fancy yourself as a budding young actor or just that person that walks past in the background shot of an episode of Eastenders? It could be you if you apply to be an extra.
    The pay isn’t bad either – £60-80 a day on average, and you hardly have to do anything!
    You can apply at Be On Screen for a number of opportunities or 2020 casting is another agency (just know they take a cut from your earnings).
24. Sell all your old CDs, games and moviesIf you are looking to make a very quick buck, then selling your old bits and bobs that are cluttering up your room is a good idea.
    The best thing about it is that you can rip all the songs and films onto your laptop or external hard drive before selling them. This means that you are only really selling the plastic and artwork!
    You can earn anything from 10p to £20 per item, and the earnings can really add up if you have a large collection. Whilst you’re at it, see if your parents have any ‘clutter’ they’d be happy to see the back of.
    You can also sell almost anything for free on Amazon Trade-In orPreloved and sites like MusicMagpie will pay you instantly for sending in unwanted items.
    For more tips and places to sell check out our guide on selling DVDs, CDs and games.
25. Sell on your education!Become a tutor to local GCSE or A-level students (find out more about tutoring here). There are now a few online tutor sites too, so you can go also global without too much hassle.
    You may feel as if you aren’t qualified to be a tutor, but seeing as you are at university you will most likely have the qualifications to tutor for GCSE or even A-Level. Some parents may feel that their child will react better to a younger tutor, and it can be great experience, so why not give it a go?
    You can advertise on SchoolsTrader or sign up with UK Tutors. You can expect to earn around £10 an hour. However, make sure you don’t have to do too much tutoring around your exams!
26. Sell your photosIf you think you’ve got a good shot and a little creativity, try uploading your photographs for free to stock websites. A good starting point isFotolia or istockphoto.
    Make more money selling photo subjects that people are demanding, and there’s a great resource to find this out here. It might be a good idea to test them out in print first yourself (get free photo prints here).
27. Rent out your car parking spaceSome student accommodation comes with a drive or garage. If you aren’t using your parking space and you live in a busy area then you might be in luck. There are plenty of people that may work in the city centre and are fed up of paying through the roof for daily parking.
    Advertise your space on Gumtree,Parklet or Just Park.
    Or, check out our full guide to renting out your parking space.
28. Work as a charity collectorOk so this job takes a certain kind of person, as you’ll have to take a lot of rejection and be persistent.
    But if you are bubbly, personable and reckon you could sell ice to an Eskimo then this could actually be a great student money making idea. You get paid commission on new sign ups (typically around £20).
    Have a look at Wesser as well as charity websites like Oxfam.
29. BabysittingIt’s a classic money-maker, and for good reason. You get paid (well) to watch TV and not very much else!
    Be warned that you will need a CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) check to look after small children, even though some parents may not ask for one. If you are wondering what to charge, look at local Gumtree ads, but you can expect to be paid over £8ph even if you aren’t trained in child care.
    Aside from advertising yourself, you might want to try creating a profile onFindababysitter.com. It really is easy money (unless you get stuck with the child from hell!).
30. Dog walking & sittingIf babies ain’t your thing, then maybe canines are… looking after other people’s dogs is big business. Just think that as a student you’re likely to have free time during the day when others are out at work and worried about their pets at home.
    You could bag around £7 per dog for an hour walk, and it’s also a great way to keep fit. Join Tailster who will match you up with dog owners. Alternatively advertise your services locally with fliers or on classified websites such as Gumtree.
31. Become a freelance interviewerDo you have ambitions to take on a career in HR? Do you love asking questions? Believe it or not, there are companies that will ask you to carry out interviews for them and pay you for your time. It couldn’t be simpler.
    You could make £185 a week plus have your travelling costs covered. The downside is that you will have to commit to at least 20 hours a week, so make sure that you have the time! Apply at NatCen.
32. Rent out your house for filmingDirectors for TV and film are always on the hunt for houses to film in. For instance, a scene forCoronation Street was recently filmed in the student house one of the Save the Studenteditors used to live in!
    Not only can you make good money but it’s crazy seeing your own place on TV. Start out by looking at this site.
33. Rent out your bodyAccording to our recent survey, 7% of students use their body in some way to make a buck.
    If you are comfortable taking off your kit then why not try life modelling. Sit there in the buff while budding artists capture your every curve (or pokey bits) in frightening detail! Try RAM, a website especially designed for these kind of jobs.
    You could also get involved in clinical drug trials. If this scares you a little then you can find more information here about what’s involved.
    Warning: Do not do anything you are not comfortable with, no matter how desperate you are for money! There has been an unhealthy rise in student prostitution in recent years – do not fall victim to it!
34. Freelance workPerhaps you enjoy writing, managing Facebook pages or doing a little bit of graphic design in your spare time. There are so many freelance jobs out there that require simple skills or just time that someone else might not have.
    And the best thing about freelancing is that you can work for clients in the UK and around the world with just an internet connection from home, to your own hours whilst developing valuable skills.
    A great place to start is with the leading freelance site Upwork.com. Or try using our student job search to find freelance jobs closer to home.
35. BuskingIf you can sing or dance then this is your time to shine baby! Did you know that Justin Bieber started off busking? That’s right, with a little work you can be as annoying as him.
    There are really no tips for this except choose a good spot with high footfall, make sure you are good and play your heart out. Some buskers in the past have been known to make upwards of £20 hour.
36. Sell clothes on eBayEveryone’s best friend when it comes to getting rid of junk is eBay. Online auctions are a sure-fire way to turn that sleeveless jacket (which came in and out of fashion in a week) into hard cash.
    Some eBay sellers look at trends and try to predict what will be big ahead of the market. If you are good and don’t mind taking a risk then you can buy early in bulk and sell on when the craze hits.
    For lots more tips on selling on eBay read this guide.
37. Sell your stories and videosIf you have an interesting story then you could try selling it to the papers. It could be anything from sleeping with a professional footballer to getting caught in a clothes horse!
    One of the Save the Student team was unfortunate enough to have a pigeon fly through and smash their window at university and sold the story to The Sun for a tidy £50.
    You could also film your mates at all times and send it into You’ve Been Framed to net yourself £250 and a few seconds of fame.
38. YouTube videosAccording to recent stats we now watch more videos on YouTube than searches on Google. And with the recently introducedYouTube Partner Program you can now profit from making and uploading videos. You will receive a percentage of the advertising revenue collected per 1,000 views.
    Depending on how successful you are (virality, subscriber base and topic) you can make a lot of money, and there are plenty of stories every week of more and more YouTubers making it their career.
    For more tips read our guide to making money from YouTube.
39. Network marketingAlso known as Multi-Level Marketing (MLM), this is a business model that allows you to generate ongoing income in two ways: by making a commission selling products and by recruiting other members who go on to sell. The later allows you to make money from the sales made by those you have recruited.
    Importantly, this is not a pyramid scheme (they are illegal) because there is an end goal which involves a customer buying a product or service of value.
    It’s also not a ‘get rich quick’ scheme. You will have to work I’m afraid! However with the growth of social media, network marketing is becoming easier and lots of people are now making a decent living from it.
    This is a serious way of making good money on your own terms and it’s well worth reading up on it. I recommend getting “The Business of the 21st Century” by Robert Kiyosaki.
40. Source property for wealthy investorsWe all know how much money there is in property, but on the surface (with house prices as high as they are) you might be thinking this market is off-limits.
    Truth is, lots of people make a great deal of cash simply sourcing suitable properties for wealthy investors who simply have no time.
    The trick is to find properties below market value (BMV) by avoiding estate agents and instead flyering your area with your contact details offering to buy houses. Then approach investors with a no-brainer offer to pass on the details of cut-price property in exchange for a % of the sale value.
    Most cities will have monthly networking events for landlords and property investors. Track these down, sign up, put on your best suit and go along with lots of business cards. Or you could start on LinkedIn or even Twitter to build some initial contacts.
    As you might imagine, this isn’t necessarily a quick way to make money but once you’ve got a few investors in your phone book it can prove to be very lucrative in the long run. If you’re interested, I recommend readingthis book.