Thursday, January 1, 2009

How Can Wordpress Make You Money?

By Don Bethune

Wordpress is a publishing platform for open source blogs with emphasis on all web standards. It is easily available on internet. You can download Wordpress software and start blogging instantly. One attracting feature of this application is that it is available free of cost.

There are two ways to get stuff onto you site with Wordpress. The first is to write a blog post. Each post you write will replace the old one at the top and all the rest will move down. Someone coming to your site will see them in reverse chronological order. In addition to blog posts, you can put up informational pages. Here you can put some biographical notes about yourself and any contact info you donat mind publicly posting.

A user can control the number of post to be displayed in reading section. Usually the URL of all the post entail the date of publishing of post. To write a post on Wordpress, You have to log in with Wordpress software downloaded by you.

There are in general many ways of adding a new post. The first one is that after logging in Wordpress, select the Post tab and click on add new link which will open a new window for adding a new post. Second option is to make use of Quickpress module available on the Dashboard.

Be sure to give your post a good title and thinks up some related tags for it, too. You have a lot of categories available to you in Wordpress, so choose some good ones. Many readers use those tags to search blogs, or to read only the posts from your blog they want.

In addition to above mentioned features Wordpress also allows you to add information about yourself as an Author. You can also check the status of your post which entails whether the post is published or not. The most friendly feature present in post is that you can schedule when a post should be published.

You can also earn money using affiliate marketing programs through Wordpress. Yes, Wordpress has an affiliate marketing programs which pays you handsome income for any sale. You can earn money on your Wordpress with these affiliate marketing programs just by posting some well organized affiliate links on your blog.

Get readers to start coming to your blog, and if a lot of people start coming to read your posts with affiliate links, you could start earning money. Many other Wordpress users have used this technique to start a home-based internet business. Itas easy. It can be fun. And if you do it right, it will be lucrative. - 15485

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