It is important to find legitimate work at home jobs online. So to do this you must avoid sponsored advertisements that say you can make money from home with typing jobs.
Most of the time they want you to place ads for them on a classified ad site. You only get paid if someone sign-ups to do the same thing you are doing which is placing ads all over the internet.
There are real type at home careers and they have to do with writing articles on directories. The part that is usually left out is the fact that this is not a job but more like a freelance gig.
You will need to have a place to send traffic in order to make money. So if you like blogger or free sites like triond or xomba you can write small articles on a directory and place a link back to your profile on a free writing site.
Another option is to promote affiliate products on your own self hosted wordpress blog or on a free blog. Sign up with linkshare or commission junction. Find a product you want to promote and then write an article about it.
On the blog you will want to place banners around the content and then write on subjects that people are searching for online. Just remember that most typist jobs do not exist, it is just a clever way to get people to do freelance writing gigs or to place ads for blogs.
You can start your own typing job by becoming an affiliate marketer for other peoples products. The best kind is providing book reviews or movie reviews.
How it works is that you will type up your opinion about the ebook you just read on kindle or a dvd you just watched from amazon.
You can set up your own blog or you can use sites like gather or helium to write a review. Depending on how much traffic you attract you will get paid per view or paid per impression.
Real jobs will not ask for upfront money to get started and they will not require you to join a membership site. Just remember when it comes to the internet companies who really need to hire employees will require a job application and then provide a job interview from a select few of candidates.
If a site is always hiring and requires you pay for a list of open freelance positions you will be wasting your time and money because most of those listings can be found for free on ifreelance or gofreelance.com