Earning money online is the new inclination. More and more people are endeavoring to earn money online. Having said that, regrettably, the majority of people fail to accomplish that since they don’t have understanding with it. They do not know where to start and the way to start.

Anyway, although, this article will not demonstrate how to start but it can give you a supervision where you can start from. You can earn money online by making use of these freelance job sites. All of them are much better than rest of the world but you should confirm all the options what a freelance job site is offering so that you can find the best fit.

1] Freelancer

Overall Rating: 8/10

This is certainly one of the best sites, which is often used by a large number of professional freelancer across the globe. Freelancer is actually a dependable site where you could possibly get hundreds of projects to work on. It has a number of favourable sides as well as some detrimental sides. Let’s check them out.

Pros:

• You can interact with the proprietor directly.
• You will get your money safely. No fraud so far.
• Free to join. Just sign up and start earning money online.
• Receive money to Credit card and PayPal, bank account and via international wire transfer.

Cons:

• It deducts 10% from your final earning from a project. This is how Freelancer.com makes money.
• To reach in the higher position of search result, you need to have a premier account, which costs $4.95 per month.
• It deducts $0.30+2.3% while transacting your money to your PayPal account or Credit Card.
• It deducts $15 for international wire transfer.
• It doesn’t have any spam filter. Hence, a lot of fake projects are enlisted here.

2] SEOClerks

Overall Rating: 7/10

The title says all. In case you provide SEO services, this can be ideal start to suit your needs. You can start providing your service for whatever you want. You can sell backlinks, compose articles, assist to design theme, help out with coding and more others associated with them.

Pros:

• Very easy to sign up.
• SEOClerks takes full responsibility to give your money from a missing advertiser.
• Fast support from dedicated forum.
• It accepts PayPal and LibertyPay.
• It has coupons what can give your money that can be used to purchase any gig (if you want).
• Make money even by tweeting and blog commenting.

Cons:

• It deducts 20% of your earning. This is how it makes money.

3] Fiverr

Overall Rating: 7/10

Regardless of you would like to sell link building service, content creation service or logo designing service, you must have to set $5 for an individual gig. The default price tag is $5. Even though, this is not excessive but you can earn more money if you have potential.

Pros:

• Easy to get started. No expert knowledge is required.

Cons:

• Not possible to earn money than $5 for a single gig.
• It deducts 20% from your account as a commission.

Read more about Fiverr at here.

4] ODesk

Overall Rating: 8/10

This is intended for various kinds of freelancers which includes web developers, mobile app developers, creative designers, article writers, virtual assistants, internet marketer and so forth. Having a minimum knowledge, you can start using this freelance website to find numerous gigs.

Pros:

• More opportunities to get started. For instance, you can work as a technical writer, graphics designer etc. – whatever you want.
• This is used by some multinational companies. Therefore, you will make more money from home.
• Payout is good and it deducts less money.
• Many professional bloggers use this service.

Cons:

• Most of the projects have less payout. [but, some of them are really high]
• Very difficult to stand out. (You must have to promote your gigs in initial days)
• Fewer opportunities to connect with employer.

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5] Micro Workers

Overall Rating: 7/10

This is fairly akin to almost every other micro job site. You will definitely get plenty of micro gigs on this website. Nonetheless, just like Freelance and SEOClerks, you ought to confirm whether the project is substantial or not. Otherwise, you will end up being a victim of a fraudulence.

Pros:

• It has easy rating button. Companies can rate you by getting their work done.
• Various methods to get paid. You will get Mastercard, Visa, American Express and Skrill as a payment method.
• It provides CSV to manage projects.
• Rate anybody using VCODE (a special code used on this site only)

Cons:

• Lots of fake projects.

6] Guru

Overall Rating: 8/10

Guru is similar to ODesk. You can have far more options to provide your freelancing service. You can work as a software developer, article writer, proofreader, online marketer/promoter etc.

Pros:

• Tons of projects by popular companies.
• Safe payment. No change to be cheated.
• Use PayPal, Mastercard and Wire Transfer as a payment method.
• More features to control your account.

Cons:

7] Envato Studio

Overall Rating: 9/10

The eventual desired destination of 90% programmer is Envato Studio. If you love to write code and develop app, WordPress theme, plugin etc. don’t evaluate anything other than Envato Studio. iIt certainly has more other options for freelancers, yet, programming is considered the most successful category of this site. You can work as a content writer, CMS developer, graphic designer and more others.

Pros:

• Most trustworthy freelance job site.
• Easy to signup and meet thunders of popular developers and freelancers.
• Design what you can, write what you want and make money. This is very much flexible.
• Easy to get featured for popular search terms by companies.

Cons:

• More competition that other sites between freelancers.
• Fewer options and much less than ODesk.

8] Zeerk

Overall Rating: 8/10

Alike Envato Studio, you can work as a graphic designer or technical content writer or anything whatever you wish. You can comparatively more money than other sites.

Pros:

• Earn upto $200 for a single gig.
• Easy to navigate through categories and find your perfect choice.

Cons:

• Lots of frauds are ranking well for popular keywords. Hence, it would be quite difficult for a newbie to come forward.
• As most of the people have less price tag, it becomes very difficult to sell high priced gig.

9] Elance

Overall Rating: 9/10

I have personally used this site as an employer as well as a freelancer. Both were just amazing. Elance is an extremely user friendly website to earn money online by selling your gigs. It has tons of options to opt for.

Pros:

• More options to work on. You can be a graphic designer, language translator, product designer, project manager or anything else to make money from this website.
• Payment is safe.

Cons:

• Much difficult to get first project.
• Not confirmed but some people have lost their money at this website even after successfully finished their work.
• Have to purchase premier membership to get better place in search result.

10] EBay Classifieds

Overall Rating: 7/10

This is a new way to find micro gigs. In most of the times, you will get better jobs from this kind of sites. Generally, advertisers use geo location to find better freelancer. At such moments, this classifieds seem better.

Pros:

• Get tons of categories to work on.
• Do work for local companies.
• No remote connection – no fraud.

Cons:

• Payment is comparatively lower.
• You need personal interaction to get final approval for a job.
• Sometime you may need to go to their office to get things done. This is how geo targeted freelancer works.

Final Word

There are more other freelance job sites to find micro gigs and make some extra money from home. This is great for students, moms etc. However, you should always check the background of any company before working with them. Otherwise, you may become a victim of any fraud company.

PS: Ratings are given based on the reliability, payouts, advantages and disadvantages. User opinions on the same have equally considered here.