Everyone needs extra money and if you’ve got a computer, you can make money writing articles from home.

You can sell your articles directly to Web sites, or you can create your own Web site, and sell advertising on the site. When people visit your site, you’re paid by your advertisers.

Let’s look at five easy articles types you can write:

1. The How-to: everyone wants to learn

What do you know how to do? If you’re a student, you know how to study; if you’re a parent, you know how to calm a toddler; if you love your garden, you know how to pot a plant.

Teaching articles explain the process of doing something in detail.

2. Write Review articles for books, DVDs - anything at all

Bought a book? Or a CD or DVD? Everything you buy gives you a new article topic. Review the movie you saw last week, and you’ve got an article which took you little time to write.

3. Self-help and motivational articles are fun to write

Inspirational articles motivate people. If you’ve survived a difficult experience, you’ll got material for hundreds of articles. Tell others the secrets to surviving divorce, or surviving a serious illness.

4. List of tips: snippets of useful information

You can compile list articles about anything which interests you. An easy way to write them is just to write down a list of everything you know about a particular topic. Then chop your long list into “top five tips” or “top seven tips.”

5. “Survivor” articles show others how to survive challenges

With Survivor articles you tell others how you met a challenge. The challenge can be small, or large. For example, perhaps you cured yourself of procrastination, or survived redundancy.

For your personal experience article, simply describe your challenge, and how you solved that challenge.

The above five article types are easy to write, and they’re popular too. So get started making money writing articles today.