Thursday, January 1, 2009

How Can Wordpress Make You Money?

By Don Bethune

If you want to start an easy and lucrative home-based internet business, you should think about blogging with Wordpress. You can download it from the internet. Itas a free publishing platform that you can find on the web, download easily, and have your own blog in no time.

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.

To put up a blog post, you will need to log on to the software you downloaded. Once youave logged in, you can put up a new post in a couple of different ways. The first is to choose the Post tab and click on aadd new link.a A new window will open to add a new post. If youad prefer, you can also use the Quickpress module from the Dashboard. The third way is to choose the new post link from the Admin bar, and start writing.

The final way is to use the Quickpress module from the Dashboard. The URL of your new post ought to include the date it was published within it. You should also control the number of recent posts that appear on that first page.

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.

A great trick many Wordpress users like is to schedule their posts. You can set Wordpress to put up a new post at whatever time you like. This is helpful if you write a bunch of posts at once. You donat have to put them all up right away. Stagger them over a day, or even a week. Add some information to your author profile, and you can also check to see if your posts have gone up. User plug-ins allow you to modify the appearance of your page.

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. - 15465

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