How to Monetize a WordPress Blog
WordPress is one of the market leaders when it comes to blogging platforms. Its popularity is not only based on the fact that it is free, but also highly customizable, interactive, search engine-friendly and secure. If you are a serious blogger, you can even generate revenue from your WordPress blog. It only takes a few minutes to understand the whole process of monetizing the WordPress blog
Instructions
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The first thing that you need to learn and understand is that WordPress offers two blogging options, WordPress.com and WorldPress.org. While the first of the two options is similar to any other free-host when it comes to advertising, which is against the Terms of Service, the latter allows advertising, customization through themes and plugins. WordPress.org is what you are looking for when you make up your mind to create a blog and monetize it.
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Once you have understood and chosen the correct blogging option, it is time to start focusing on the content of your blog. You want your blogs to have a strong appeal to them so that it would attract readers. If the quality of your blog is not high enough, people might come across it once, but will not be tempted to visit it again or read through any other topic that you have blogged about. Also try to blog about topics that you are truly knowledgeable about instead of writing on topics that you do not have complete grasp on. Readers will not appreciate factual errors or a blog that deviates from reality due to the blogger’s personal bias.
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Once you have decided about the topics that you will generally be blogging about, learn about the different options available to you for monetizing your blog. AdSense from Google is by far the most popular online advertising program. However, there are other such services as well, which will pay you for promoting products through your blog.
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Just because ads can earn you money does not mean you clutter your blog with them. This can be a huge turn off for your blog visitors and also make you come off as someone who is more interested in monetizing your blog instead of sharing something with the readers. The choice of your ads should be based on the content of your blog, so that the visitors not only find the ads to be relevant to the topic, but also find themselves tempted to click it. Do not spam the ads on your blog. Instead, place them in such a way that they stay neat and easily accessible.
