Working GPT (get-paid-to) and other incentive-based rewards sites is a great way to generate a steady online income, no doubt. However, there are many other completely free and legitimate ways to generate multiple online streams.

For example, ever heard of get-paid-to write articles?

About a year or so ago while I was researching “get paid to write articles” sites, I ran across eHow.com. This site features articles on basically “How to” do everything and anything you can possible think of. So, to experiment with their revenue sharing program, I signed up and started writing and posting a few articles to their site. Now, you don’t earn a flat-fee or anything for writing an article.

Your articles earn you money by the eHow’s revenue-sharing program. Basically it works just like Google Adsense Ads. If you’re not familiar with that, then here’s how it works: People view and read your articles. People click on the advertisements and links that eHow displays on the pages of your articles. When that happens, eHow shares an undisclosed percentage of that revenue with you.

eHow has a super-easy user interface to write and publish articles. What’s better is that I earned money a lot quicker from my articles than I have from other “get paid to write articles” sites.

The minimum payout to receive a payment each month is only $10.00. And, they send you payments directly to your PayPal account. Plus, when I first started and for 2 months in-a-row, the good folks at eHow.com invited me to participate in their Bonus Programs. It was fast and easy and they paid me an extra $150.00 on top on my regular revenue-sharing earnings.

Their revenue sharing program is way better then getting paid a flat-fee or rate for writing an article! Why? Because your articles continue to make you money over and over, month after month, year after year!

It’s been months and months since I’ve written and posted a new article – but all my articles continue to make me money. It’s like doing the work once and getting paid for it over and over again. Skeptical? Have a look at some of my earnings reports since I started writing articles on eHow

And NO, you don’t have to be some English and grammar expert either! You just have to write half-way literate so the vast majority of common folks like you and me can understand!

And EVERYONE knows how to do stuff! Yep, even you! You can write about super simple stuff or really complicated things. Anyone can do this – I’ll prove it!

One of my most profitable articles that I’ve written was simply telling people how to find online coupons. Seriously! The article took me like 20 minutes to write and then like another 10 minutes to create a graphic and upload it.

So, for about 30 minutes of work… This one article has made me $1,164.26 so far! And, I wrote it well over a year ago! Here’s how much this one little article has earned me each month since I wrote it (March 2009 earnings are just for this month so far) : 

Why has this little article made me so much? Because it’s about something relevant to today and it’s about something people are searching for.

So, think about stuff you already know about and know how to do. Then write one of these easy How To articles and tell people how to do it. The more popular your articles are – the more money you will make!