We talk about making money online and we often see sites that intoxicate us with sales pitches that sound like the ultimate online money-making dream. It's this very dream that comes with a limited offer, and if you don't "act now" you'll just see it slipping away. Away it goes. You were lucky this time!

We have get-rich quick schemes, covered even in articles at the Wikipedia, and some probably work. Otherwise how would you explain the birth of a few new "get rich" sites each day? And, attention: there are legal get rich schemes that will burn your pockets even worst than the illegal ones.

When it comes to the Web, the "get rich" idea is not out of the question. What you need to understand is that nothing happens over night and that there is no such thing as "free." On some sites you get "free white papers" but you need to give them your name and email address to get a download link. On other sites you get "free software" but to fully benefit of its features you have to upgrade to the paid version. Free is a relative term.

And the relativity of the term applies even to web domains and hosting.

Many bloggers start an online business using apparently free resources like Google's Blogger. Even I have there a few blogs that bring in some coffee cash. Other bloggers are more successful, because they focus more on branding and networking. Blogspot is serving its purpose well, and it is amazing because it is free, isn't it?

Well, as long as you don't need to actually pay for your sub-domain (because you do own just a blogspot sub-domain with Blogger) you go on happy that you don't need to pay for hosting, that you make the best out of a free resource. Without knowing, you actually work for Blogger. You feed its big domain with content, you boost traffic, and you are the very force behind this company's branding.

The little money you make using this apparently free web spot is nothing in comparison to the win you actually make for Blogger.com. You are the unofficially employed Blogger writer. You publish some ads by Google on your site (which is actually not yours and Blogger.com could delete it at any time as per its TOS) and you are happy with the revenue.

You sell some links (carefully, because you really don't want Google to manually de-index your site), and you publish some sponsored reviews. But did you know that you could do much better with a small monthly investment?

There are enough web hosts that offer affordable web hosting plans,

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