Thursday, 17 July 2014

How To Monetize Your WordPress Blog

WordPress is one of the systems most popular content management (CMS), due to its ease of use and flexibility. One of the many uses for WordPress is electronic commerce, where the software is set up to sell products and services. In this article we look at several ways to earn income using your blog, sometimes known as "monetization."


Sell advertising: An easy way to earn income on your site is to sell advertising. This could be in the form of banners, text links and articles. As an example, I have written several articles in my travel blog on income tax. I contacted the company that produces software for income tax and pay for a text link on my site. Another company wanted an article about hostels. A third company wanted to advertise casinos.

 

Use Adsense: An easy way to get revenue out of your website by using Google Adsense. With Adsense you can determine the type and style of the ads to fit your blog. This is a type of advertising known as pay-per-click, which means that when a user clicks on an ad, you just make money. If you have lots of people coming to your site, clicks can add up quickly.




Another way to use the content on your site (and again with Adsense) is to create a Youtube channel and publish such content on your blog. One of the options available to you as a user is Youtube monetizes their channel with Adsense ads on their videos. Like Adsense on your blog, overlap Adsense ads on their videos. Using the videos on your blog that creates an opportunity to generate income, because if people click on the ads on the videos to earn income from that besides Adsense ads on your blog.

Create and sell your own products: A great way to make money with your site is to create and sell digital products. These can be in the form of videos, audio recordings, books, and a combination of the three to create a membership site.

One way that can work is where you build a sales process, which starts with a squeeze page. The purpose of the landing page is twofold, to win the email of your prospect and to give that person something in return, which could be a report, video, audio, a combination of them, a coupon, free trial or something else of value to the prospect.

After the prospect enrolls receive a confirmation email asking if they want to join your list. Once confirmed, receive another email with instructions on how to use your offer. This process is known as double opt-in and is recommended to reduce spam complaints.

After that, the prospect goes to your sales pages of the site you are presented with the main menu. You can configure the process, so if shopping perspective they offer, which is then pointed to another list, but this is only for paying customers. Now you have two lists and you use different forms of marketing for everyone.

Creating a membership site can be a complex process. In previous articles I have written about the process of building an online business and the program I used was OptimizePress, which was used for squeeze pages, sales pages, download pages and blog entries. Not the best for blog posts, however. Using other issue is a better option. One way to keep both OptimizePress and blog is to create two separate installations of WordPress. For example, you must install OptimizePress in the root directory and the blog in a subdirectory of the same domain and then link the two facilities linked within OptimizePress.



Conclusion

As you can see, there are many different ways to monetize your blog. For more information, check out the various links in this article. Of these, the associated software offers a number of courses in Internet marketing to get you up to speed.

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