Thursday, January 1, 2009

Make Money On A New Wordpress Blog

By Don Bethune

Did you know you could make money blogging? Wondering how to get started? Wordpress is a free blogging platform you can download from the internet. You can find it on the web now, and in no time you will be filling your own website with quality content.

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.

Log onto the Wordpress software you downloaded and youall find you have a couple of ways to put up a new post. First, on the Admin bar, you can choose the new post link. You can also choose aadd new linka from the Post tab. A new window will pop up and you can type your post in there.

The new post you added should appear with a URL that will include the date it was posted. Keep in mind that you can control the number of recent posts that show up. The rest will be in an archive link.

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.

But how do you earn money? Through the affiliate marketing programs Wordpress has. All you need to do is write good blog posts with links to the affiliates, and youave started down the road to earning cash from sales through those affiliates.

Start building traffic, and when enough people read your posts with affiliate links, you start making money. Youad be surprised how many people make a steady income in this way. If youave been considering starting a home-based internet business, this may well be the idea youave been looking for. - 15485

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