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.

All Wordpress sites have two kinds of content. The first are informational pages, where you can post biographical information about yourself. You can also post contact numbers, email addresses or post office boxes you would like to be contacted at. The other kind of content is a blog post. Write a new one and the rest will move down. The first thing a person reads when they come to a blog is the newest one, and all the rest will appear in reverse chronological order.

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.

The above two option are mostly used to add a new post but apart from these you can also use new post link present in the admin bar to write a new post. After this step you can add title of your Post and tags associated with it. There are a large number of categories available on Wordpress. You can choose the category suitable for post. The category not only brief the task of searching a post but also organize these post in a well developed manner.

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. - 16069

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