Thursday, January 1, 2009

Post On Wordpress: New Way To Earn Money!

By Don Bethune

Did you know you could make money blogging? Wondering how to get started? Wordpress is a free blogging platform you can download from the internet. You can find it on the web now, and in no time you will be filling your own website with quality content.

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 new post you added should appear with a URL that will include the date it was posted. Keep in mind that you can control the number of recent posts that show up. The rest will be in an archive link.

Be sure to give your post a good title and thinks up some related tags for it, too. You have a lot of categories available to you in Wordpress, so choose some good ones. Many readers use those tags to search blogs, or to read only the posts from your blog they want.

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.

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.

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. - 15359

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