How to Make Money Online With WordPress site and Other Online Blogging Sites

 

WordPress is probably the number one free blogging platform in today's society. So tens of thousands of bloggers across the world use WordPress to power their sites (like me). But how can WordPress, a FREEblogging platform, earn you some significant income? Here is a step-by-step guide showing how to earn money with WordPress.

Select a Niche

The absolute MOST IMPORTANT part of a website/blog is your market. Choose a specific and one of a kind niche you feel comfortable writing about. For example, if you're excellent at web design, write about a specific part of web design for example coding.

Once you've selected your niche, brainstorm some articles you can write. This will aid in the long term; trust me, you don't wish to start a blog and half a year down the road you have a sever brain fart and can not write any more posts. Make sure your market is unique but wide enough so it is possible to compose at least 2,000 articles on it!

WordPress is a free blogging platform, but you'll require a site first, and the website has to be hosted one of two ways: Free Hosting or Paid Hosting.

Free Hosting

If you're trying to find a free hosting service to host WordPress, the best solution for you would likely be WordPress.com hosting. I suggest this option since it is 100% free and from WordPress itself! The WordPress platform automatically comes with the completely free hosting service out of WordPress.com (as its name implies ) and you won't need to be concerned about all the complications of internet hosting (name servers, updates, mysql databases, etc.. )! Plus, setup is a breeze and you get to choose your own domain (has to be a subdomain of WordPress.com though). Trust me, free WordPress hosting does not becoming any better than WordPress.com!

An alternative would be finding free web hosting services along with installing WordPress manually. This isn't recommended because it requires a great deal of hassle finding a 100% free web hosting service that has a fantastic up-time and service for WordPress. I'd definitely recommend WordPress.com hosting over free web hosting.

The last and worst (in my point of view) choice for free WordPress hosting is self-hosting your website. This is definitely the most complicated process as you need to port forward in accordance with your router, set up a self-hosting service such as WAMP, and receive a free domain from No-Ip. Org (subdomain naturally ). The worst part about it is that your website will have zero bandwidth due to the fact that you yourself are hosting your own website. I'm not even going to go in-depth with this; you can Google the way to self-host WordPress since I won't waste my time describing my least recommended method of free web hosting.

Paid Hosting

Paid hosting enables you to have total control over your WordPress site (you may write whatever you need; with WordPress.com hosting you have to abide by their terms of service). Bloggers frequently use this to their advantage, as creating beautiful-looking templates and site design is a breeze with hosting. First, you'll need to discover a fantastic hosting service. I recommend HostGator because (in my humble view ) they are cheap yet offer you the very best support and compatibility for WordPress. With HostGator, simply sign up (you also get a free domain with any plan) and in your control panel you can click set up WordPress! Once you've installed WordPress, then you'll be all set!

Get a Theme, Configure WordPress Widgets, and Get Started Writing Stuff!

As soon as you've setup WordPress, I recommend choosing a theme. WordPress has a large variety of themes, and you can choose on which one matches your blog the best. The next step after installing WordPress is installing widgets. Widgets are special components of your WordPress site that each have a specific function.

In my opinion, SEO, Backup, Cache, and anti-Spam would be the widgets you absolutely need. After installing the widgets (it is possible to choose which ones you want and which ones you don't), get ready to write! Hopefully you are already able to spit out a few blog posts from your own brainstorming!

Receive Traffic

As a webmaster, I can't emphasize the importance of traffic. You might have the BEST article on the planet, but if your site's only loyal guest is your mother, the world will not be able to see your amazing writing. That's why traffic is essential to your blog's survival.

To begin, I immediately suggest that you submit your site only to the leading search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing). As a little precaution, I recommend you not to concentrate on submitting your website to a lot of search engines, because the majority of the time search engines need to locate your website automatically.

Generating some start traffic is rather simple, given that you've got friends and family. Utilize FaceBook, Twitter, and all of other methods to let everyone know about your website. Assuming that you know more than 50 people in the world, this should be quite easy and you should begin to have some steady traffic.

Now it's time to go people. One of the most effective ways to get traffic is to submit your site to the directories like DMoz (Google). However, as you're just starting out, I don't recommend this because DMoz literally takes less than 1% of all submissions, and your website will probably be that the 99 percent that gets refused. Submit your site to lesser known but trusted directories which guarantee indexing.

Once you've submitted your website to 10 directories, let us move on to a more ways to earn traffic. Traffic-exchange sites are great as longs as they are MANUAL. NEVER combine an auto-surf exchange site, as the visitors doesn't have any value since that which is automated.

Yet another free and effective method to get traffic is through free classified advertisements. Just Google"free classifieds" and you'll get a load of sites which enable you to post ads at no cost. This is effective since it isn't time consuming, and thousands of bookmarking sites will probably be displaying your ads for absolutely no cost!

Thus Far, you should have a blog which:

Has a exceptional niche

has at least 10+ articles/posts

is hosted by a trusted hosting agency

has the WordPress blogging platform (duh!)

Has adequate traffic (500+ visitors a day)

can be found on search engines like Google

Now it is time to reap your rewards for your painstakingly hard work! It is time to make some cash $$!

The most effective and simplest way to earn a steady income is through marketing. There are a number of paths you may take. The most well-known marketing service is likely Google AdSense. But they pay ONLY by check, and which may be inconvenient if you would like to be compensated by other means like PayPal. That's the reason why there are loads of AdSense alternatives!

Clicksor

Clicksor is most likely the principal competition to AdSense. You can be compensated in many different unique ways, making Clicksor much more suitable than AdSense. Clicksor offers pretty much every kind of advertising you will ever want for your blog; it is an all-in-one solution for monetizing your blog.

1 big issue with Clicksor along with other all-in-one advertising solutions is the advertising is HORRIBLE for sites. In fact, some blogs lose traffic due to ads filling up over 60 percent of your site and annoying the hell out of their traffic. You may either take the possibility of losing some visitors and making your site ugly, OR you can use a different monetizing method: In-Text marketing.

InfoLinks

InfoLinks is hands-down THE BEST in-text advertising. In-text marketing is effective because of its limited disturbance in your site; it selects random important phrases in your site and highlights themallowing visitors to click on themin turn generating income for the webmaster (in this case YOU). How do affiliate marketing services afford to offer this type of advertising? Advertisers pay sites like InfoLinks to promote their products/services. InfoLinks hands that responsibility to webmasters like you and me, and we get paid in return for assisting InfoLinks earn money. I hope I have not confused you. At the simplest terms, you get paid for showing links on your own blog!

Now, how can we incorporate such a fantastic service into our blog? InfoLinks has created a WordPress widget which you could just install into your website.

Follow the simple 1-minute integration manual and you ought to have banner ads incorporated into your blog very quickly!

InfoLinks has a comparatively large payout per click (PPC); on average, every click is $0.10. Let's say you've got 500 visitors per day, and 10% (50 individuals ) each click one in-text advertisement per day. That gives you $5.00 a day, which translates into over $1,500 annually doing nothing! And that is simply a mere 10 percent of your daily visitors! You could be earning some significant income with InfoLinks.

Regarding payment procedures, InfoLinks pays by either PayPal or Check. Pretty convenient for me.

There are hundreds of approaches to monetize your blog, and InfoLinks is merely one of these. Another 100% complimentary method is internetaffiliate advertising . In a nutshell, affiliate marketing works like this: major companies like Microsoft pay you as soon as you help them create a sale. Every time you refer a friend to Microsoft's site and they make a purchase (i.e. Windows 7), you get a certain proportion of the total sales (usually this is around 10-15%) from Microsoft. Taking into consideration the amount of traffic you currently have, this can be a big money maker. Try this method out, as it's 100% free also!

Many money-making solutions now offer WordPress widgets too, and you can monetize your site into whatever extent you please. Just keep in mind that you don't want over 20 percent of your blog to be advertisements =P

Have Fun Earning Some Free Money with your WordPress Blog!

Once you've achieved all or the majority of the above, you've succeeded in creating a monetized WordPress website earning you around $2000-3000 a year. Bear in mind that more composing = more traffic = more visitors = more ad-clicking machines = more $$$$$$$!

A crucial note is a monetized blog shouldn't be your main source of revenue. However, making $2000+ a year is extremely good considering the fact that your visitors do all the work!