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.

One feature many Wordpress features love is that you can schedule when you post will go up. That way, if you write a handful of posts all at once, you can set them to go up throughout the day, or even over the course of a week. Besides adding information to your author profile, you can also check which of your posts has been published. You can also use plug-ins to make your page look nicer.

Wordpress has an amazing feature. They call it their affiliate marketing program. You can earn money by writing good posts with links to Wordpress affiliates embedded in them. They pay you real money for the sales that come from this.

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. - 16651

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