What's the most likely way to earn a decent living online?

I have not made $500 a week online. I imagine that's because I have not put enough time and effort online. Some of my friends have been making some good earnings online, and one of the ways is having a business website of their own, and doing all types of businesses, trading, consulting, promoting business, affiliation, etc. They seem to be quite happy with their website business.

i make pretty decent money updating websites and fixing poor quality sites, its doesn't take much creativity you just have to be critical of faults

It is VERY HARD to earn such an ammount in one week working online. I think you need to be a great writer and also be very smart, to write interesting articles and also to combinate the earning power of each website. Also you will need to be more independent, maybe seel your articles or ebooks as your own would give you a biger income!

It's hard for newbie to make a hundred dollars a month, much less five hundred dollars a week. The common methods of making money is affiliate marketing and article writing. These two methods have the potential of making full time income, but then it takes a long time for newbie to learn the rope, and to create awareness. Many writing sites are paying for long-time passive income, on top of some upfront payments. Some writers in Associated Content can make $1,500 to $2,000 per month from passive income. That means they do not even need to write anything, since their articles are generating income. But they have to build up a sizable number of articles in the first place. Newbies find it hard to make even $1.50 per month in their first few months of article writing.

The best way to earn at least $500 weekly online is to join affiliate programs from various niches depending on your interest. If you have websites or blogs with good amount of traffic then you can put banners into your sites/blogs. There are other ways to sell the products or services offered by the affiliate programs. You can also try email marketing if you have a database of leads. If none, you can join social networking sites and market your products there.

I guess this is very difficult task earning of $500 per week. we have many sites which publish that they $500 per week. But its difficult to analyse whether you will get the payout truly. They are sites which ask for initial deposit or some dollars. Which usally i feel is fake. But maybe we might be having sites which truly pays back but even then i dont think so that site will stay for a longer period in the market. Be careful in online business or jobs which you do.

Writing sites for most people are the best bet to earning a decent living online. You mix in low-end everyday writing with the high-end articles and you should easily be able to make a full-time income doing so. You can see some writing places in the site in my profile if you're interested(I can also link you to some writing databases full of new opprotunities every day which i'm not sure if I listed in that site or not.). Writing stuff isn't nearly as complicated so you should feasibly be able to make a full-time income with less then 40 hours a week. However, it does require a lot of research, patience, and for high-end writers good writing skills. One of the most important things though is the ability to properly interact with others and build up a proper relationship to whoever you're selling articles to. You get in good terms with 3-4 big writing companies and you can very easily make a full-time income probably working part=time hours. I also have other means in which you can make additional income. Most of which are listed in that site in my profile but if you want some more I can send you the link to my blog. :) Either way, good luck to you.