Are you wondering how to make money online without selling anything? Well, to a certain extent, almost everything you do to make money online involve selling something. Technically speaking, if you are working as a freelancer, you are still selling something. You are selling your service in exchange for a payment.

However, in this article, we will just consider freelancing as not selling anything. So, here are 3 ways to make money online without selling anything.

1) Being a Free Lancer

You can become a free lancer and make money online if you have certain skills. For example, writers, programmers and graphic designers are in high demand. If you have any of these skills, you can offer your service as a freelancer. You can find freelance assignments at freelance websites like eLance and RentaCoder.

2) Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)

Cost Per Acquisition is a way of making money when your visitor perform certain desired action. For example, you can drive visitors to a page which require to fill in the zip code. Everything a visitor do this, you will earn anyway from $1 to $5.

Of course, there are CPA offers that pay you more money. However, those offer will usually require visitors to fill in more personal details like their residential address.

3) Google AdSense or Similar Programs

You can earn money from Google Adsense or other similar programs without selling anything. Basically, what you do is to build a website with some content. Then you will install a code on your website. This code will display an advertisement relevant to the content that you have created.

For example, if you have a website about dog training, Google AdSense will display advertisement relevant to dog training. When people click on AdSense advertisement on your website, you can earn anywhere from a few cents to a few dollars per click.

Advertising costs on the internet vary greatly based on many factors. If you want to advertise your site and you haven’t optimized your metadata and taken the steps required to maximize your free marketing options then you will have to pay much more to achieve the same results you would have with the additional free advertising. There are many different ways to advertise online, but there are a few different ways that the advertising is monetized. Understanding these methods will help you understand the price ranges a little better.

Cost per click advertising (also known as “CPC”) is a form of advertising where you pay the published based on the number of viewers who click on your advertisement. With this type of advertising you are more likely to be paying money for someone who will get to see your product or service. With this type of advertising you can traditionally set limits on the amount you wish to spend daily and for the life of the campaign. In many instances you can decide how much you are willing to pay per click.

Another similar method is CPM or “Cost Per Impression”, that is how many times your ad was published on a viewers screen. These are usually done in large numbers such as thousands or millions and again you can set a daily rate and a campaign rate.

A third option is Cost per Action or “CPA” which is sometimes referred to as CPL or “Cost Per Lead” this type of arrangement sets a certain value on an affiliate making a sale through their advertising. This type of advertising is great for setting a sales goal and then paying for it only if it is achieved. For example, if you are selling your widget for $100 and you plan to profit $50, you could offer your affiliates $20 per sale (that results from their ads) and still turn a profit of $30. If your widget doesn’t sale, you aren’t out anything.

So what we have learned here is that you can set your own budget, from $10 to $10 Million dollars and based on the method you use you can tailor your advertising to suit any budget.