There are so many scams on the internet, so what are some legitimate ways to make money as a stay at home mom? Keep in mind that it's good to not have to lay out money in advance if possible. We also don't want to spend a lot of time developing technical skills. Here are some effective ways to bring in a part-time income that may even develop into full-time as you build up clients.

1) People that run websites need to have vistors to their sites and often will outsource the work. For instance they may need someone to write to other web owners to see if they will link to their site. This is a perfect job to do as well as advertising for them on forums and classified ads to assist them in getting more traffic. Without traffic a website cannot prosper.

A way to help a webmaster is to study their site and write a few one paragraph summaries. These then can be placed in appropriate categories on classified ad sites or craigslist or yahoo answers to bring them traffic. You can even write to webmasters and ask them if they need a helper and tell them you are interested in helping them get more visitors to their site.

Craigslist and yahoo are popular sites and having a link back to your website is helpful both for traffic as well as getting indexed in the search engines. Sometimes a new site will not even appear in yahoo, msn or google till it has links pointing to it. This is a great opportunity for part-time work.

2) Another way to earn part-time income from home is to write articles . There are a few ways to earn money with this. One is to sell them to sites looking for content. You can type in sell articles online in google and see what comes up. Another method is to write for webmasters who have a site on treadmills or pet care to give them articles to make their sites more substantial. You can make articles often 300 words or more so don't feel you are writing a college essay.

3) A third method of acquiring part-time online income is to join what are called affiliate programs. Ebay and Amazon are two companies that pay you to resell their items by commission. You can write articles that link to those sites with your special code and earn extra money. It doesn't matter if you don't know web design as you can use blogger which is very user friendly.

These three methods will all work to help you generate a part-time income to stay at home and not get an outside job. It doesn't happen and overnight you need to follow a disciplined schedule to not fall into watching tv or web surfing.