There are many people who want to make money on internet but they do not know how to make money through writing articles.  This is long investment and time consuming to make money online.

If you are skilled in writing articles and have some creative ideas to bring them to practicle then internet is right place for you to make money online. First of all you need to decide what is your area of expertise like if you are working somewhere as engineer and have vast knowledge of your field then you can use that experience in writing for different websites and compaines that can pay you for your excellent work and sharing your knowledge to readers for writing articles.

You will not get rich using this technique. But then, you said you only wanted to make a few hundred, right? Most people will pay $4 - $5 per article, depending on length, quality, etc. If you are experienced, you can probably write a 400 - 500 word article in about half an hour. Therefore, you can pretty easily write four articles per day. If we use the lower figure of $4 each, you will earn about $480 in a month using this technique.

All in all, if you are looking to make quick money writing articles, forums are you best bet. This method has the added advantage of allowing you to set your own terms. If a client needs 10 articles, you can write five on day one and require some or all of the payment on delivery. However, in most cases, people want to review the articles before completing the payment.

If you do not want to spend time in the forums, you can use one of the many companies on the Internet that pay you for your articles. However, you will not make much more from these companies because they receive a portion of your earnings on every sale you make. And, because these companies have so many authors writing for them, you would not make much money right away.