Darren Rowse is busy scamming his readers with the launch of his new forum on Problogger.com. I say scam as he is trying to convince his readers that his forum is worth paying him $2 a month to join – soon to be increased after a first month trial.You can read about the pitfalls of following Rowse here Problogger.com Forum Review.

Forums in general are a huge waste of time if you are trying to learn how to make money online. They are full of marketing pimps selling useless products and bloggers who think blogging and Internet Marketing is the same thing. They aren’t but have been led to believe this by none other than Darren Rowse, John Chow, Shoemoney and the rest of the blogging A List. They make money selling crap to noobs. They sell the dream of becoming well known and making money like they do – selling yet more crap to more noobs. A vicious circle. This isn’t what real internet marketing is about but there are marketers out there who will help those looking for direction and they do it without selling noobs useless products and ebooks.

If you are new to the make money online business then spend some time reading Ben’s posts on Make Money with SEO, Court and Mark’s Keyword Academy, Chewie’s Make Money Online blog, or the archives at Vic’s Blogger Unleashed.

Do it yourself posts on Post Your Own Articles

I am always on the look out for more ways to advertise my online businesses and one of the best ways of getting the word out is by writing articles and having them featured on other sites. You can do this by Guest blogging for other sites or by writing for article directories and hoping other marketers pick up your content and republish it with your credit information intact.

The most popular article directories would be ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com.

You can also create your own posts on mega sites like Hubpages or Squidoo or InfoBarrel

Post Your Own Articles is a hybrid of the article directory sites and the mega post your own content sites. All content is reviewed for quality and authors are vetted to avoid spammers. The site is free but requires you to sign up and meet the author requirements. If interested you can get more details on Griz’s make money online blog.