1.) To begin the cycle, Click the Home tab on your Gaia Tool Bar

And Click the Daily Chance, repeat this on all of the tabs.
Some of the prizes include,
*>Gold 5-50
*>Flowers
*>Assorted cheap clothing
*>Bugs
*> Aquarium Items (Cuttlephones etc. )
Most of this can be sold back to anyone of the the shops on gaia for a small profit. I recommend saving all bugs and flowers because they can be changed into ink which you can sell into the marketplace for a fine some.
2.)
The second part of this is comment your friends, Because you get a decent amount of gold each time.
1st Comment: 40-50g
2nd Comment: 21-25g
3rd Comment- 21-25g
and so on and so forth
The number of gold will steadily decrease so you can't just sit there and talk to your friends all day, you gotta make some gold right?
3.) Post, post, post, post.
Whether it be in the guild ( =) )
Or in some other thread posting has been the main source for making gold since Gaia first popped up in 2003. But to many people abused posting and turned it from friendly 2g per post to where you can some times only get 1g. Not cool, right?
4.) Post in those Journals,
Make a journal and write 2 entries a day then comment them each once. Now I know some of you will be too cool to make a Journal. Well then just make your journal about how you hate journals. It doesn't have to say anything it can just be the letter A if you want.
5.) Rate and Comment Avatars.
Go into the Community tab on the Gaia bar and click on arenas go into it comment and rate peoples avatars pretty fun way to earn money. And you can learn good ways to match items once you have tons of gold.
6.) Go into towns and shake stuff.
By scrolling over the WORLD tab you will see a button that says Towns. Click that, It will take you to a virtual town where there are bugs, flowers and gold hidden amongst every nook and cranny.
((Thanks to Mr Scarf))