Well, it's very known but good to refresh it from time to time, and this is my verson..
Start by getting skinning/herbalism or skinning/minning
These are very wanted profs, you basecly start by leveling up, and as you level you gain skills in your profs, thus allowing you to skin/mine/herb better and more useful items that are worth more than the previous once.
Stack up your mined, skinned,herbed items, and btw MAKE an bank alt. This will also shorten down you played time alot.
*Now prices are very different on servers, but these are the most common items that most people need, and prices are solid.
Stack of light leather: On my server 3g, now if you skinned 5 stacks during your leveling let's say, level 10-15? thats 3*5 = 15g
Stack of Peacebloom = 40s on my server, let's say you herbed 5 stacks of these aswell, that's 40s*5 = 200s ~ 2g, now you have made 17g just by jusing simple methods through out leveling.
Stack of copper ore: My on server they go for 3-5g a stack, depends on how many there are on the AH, now if you start as an Dwarf/Gnome you'll end up with ALOT of copper ore - stacks, now let's say these go for 3g aswell, and you mine from level 10-15 about 10 stacks, that's 3*10 = 30g.
*Now if you put the skinning and mining profit together you'll end up with a profit of 45g, thats halfway already and you are only level 15!
These are simple methods i always use on a newly formed charachter, on my new druid i had 200g before i could use mount, all gained by useing these simlpe methods.
Have fun making easy gold, btw this might be common sense to some but not every one knows how easy it is to make gold in wow now adays![]()