According to Yahoo Answers, there are many great ways on how to earn money online. You do not necessarily have to put up your own site at first, but it does help to have one. Meanwhile, if you are looking for more ideas on how to start your online business, then here are the ways you can do so:

Join an affiliate marketing program. If you already have your own blog site, then you can join an affiliate program. Affiliate programs are money making schemes where you are given promotional ads and banners in which you must promote on your site. By promoting these ads you get to inform your audiences about the company you are affiliated with, and once they click and subscribe to those ads, you get a commission. Now that's a good start for you as an work at home based business opportunity.

Aside from being part of an affiliate marketing program, you can also get paid to write. There are two ways in getting paid to write: the first is by being a professional blogger where companies would hire you to write about their services and feature their business on your site, similar to affiliate marketing. You can also become a web content generator, where site owners themselves would hire you to write articles for them. Writing is an easy online business especially when you love to do the main task (which is writing, of course). You can also post quotes and incites at forums and blog comments just like what some people do at Yahoo Answers.

If you don't want to write but at the same time you have some technical expertise when it comes to web design, then you can offer web design services to website owners in the Internet. This is another easy online business since you don't have to go to your client's office just to do the job, and all your resources are found in the Internet. Why not try to do this as well?

Meanwhile, if you are not a fan of affiliate marketing and writing, then Yahoo Answers provides you with another work at home based business opportunity: translation services. A lot of foreigners nowadays are looking for virtual translators to help them learn a new language, especially English. You can then brush up on your English skills and begin teaching a few students for 10-30 minutes a day via an online voice chat messenger such as Skype, and from there you can earn more money. That's definitely an easy online business without spending for a big overhead. All you need is a good computer with a reliable Internet connection, and you're ready to go.