You can scour the internet until you reach the end for paid surveys. If you're just starting out in the survey game, you may not know which are worth your time, which actually pay you, which ones you have to pay for, and so on.

Knowing you need to supplement your income somehow, but you don't want to get a part-time job.  You read on blog sites how easy it is to make money on the internet. 

This idea is fascinating because, for the most part, you can do it in the comfort of your home, wearing your pajamas and sitting on the couch!  Why not give a try?

Now to get started. How do you go about finding these precious gems that will fatten your piggy bank and give you the freedom to do what you want? You can do a Google search for paid survey sites and get back over two million results. 

That's a lot of sites to check out and would probably take years to go through. And, out of those two million, I would venture a guess that only a hundred or so will actually be legitimate. 

The searching can become tedious, and after a while you'll probably lose interest because you haven't made any money.

You'll probably write on a blog that paid online surveys don't really exist and they're all a bunch of scams. Instead of typing paid survey sites into a search engine, try searching for a paid online survey directory. 

These sites take all of the leg work out of trying to find these sites yourself by listing every one that has been tried and true. 

These sites usually get started by someone just like yourself, wanting to make a few extra bucks, who went through hundreds of sites, failing at most and succeeding at others. 

They wanted to set these directories up to help others succeed and not have to go through what they did. A few of these directory sites are; MySurvey123, Greenbook and Survey Police.

Each one has a comprehensive list of paid survey sites, focus group sites and mystery shopper sites.

If you would rather start off with just signing up for a few sites to begin with to see how it goes, some of the most popular sites are; Survey Spot, GlobalTestMarket, Survey Head and Opinion Square. There are so many to choose from besides these, but these are some of the better sites to make money from. 

Surveypolice.com has a panel rating section on their website that lets users rank their favorite sites to use and which sites to stay away from to help others avoid a site or join it.  

Also, almost all legitimate survey sites are usually affiliated with a business accreditation, like the Better Business Bureau, that gives a stamp of approval for their business practices.  

So, if you see BBB, CASRO or TRUSTe, you know that website is accredited and legitimate.