Another aspect of creating websites that generate revenu is advertising and where to put those ads.
One one of my other blogs that I’ve had for several years I thought I’d have fun a couple of years back and just threw some adds up on there wondering if it would ever pay anyting out. Having heard (and read) so many “I got rich on the internet… it’s really easy… you can’t miss” type stories I figured I’d throw some on.
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I thought I’d write a quick article on Search Engine Optimization which is commonly refered to as SEO.
Search Engine Optimization is a means of improving the volume of traffic or quality of traffic to your website and/or blog. Quality of traffic simply means that if you’re blog is about contruction then you wouldn’t want someone who’s looking for cars to end up on your site as there is a strong chance they have no interest in construction. You want people who have interest in construction to find your website.
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So why did I choose Wordpress?
Well, Wordpress is one of the most used blogging tools out there and since it’s been around for a while it’s also quite polished.
Many bloggers use Wordpress and there are tons of plugins that you can get to provide various functionality.
A few plugins I’ve decided to use:
Contact Form 7 – http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/contact-form-7/
This plugin provides a contact form that allows people to send a message through the website to an email address.
WP-SpamFree – http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree
This plugin provides some spam filtering for the blog comments.
You can also find many Wordpress plugins and Themes over at http://wordpress.org/extend/
Wordpress also has some great features that may come in handy when writting. In the editor there is a handy spell checker. The spell check is one that I will use quite often, it’s quite handy in finding nasty typos.
Another very handy feature is that Wordpress will automatically save draft copies while writing blog articles so if you happen to shutdown the browser a bit pre-maturely all may not be lost.
It’s also quite easy to change the website’s theme or layout at the click of a button… once you’ve uploaded the theme’s files of course.
So all in all I believe Wordpress is a very solid tool to work with. I’ll post about handy plugins, widgets and anything else that I find helps me in this process.
Here we are!
July 28th, 2009.
Today is the launch of my new blog and my new adventures in learning to make money online.
I’ve been doing a bit of researching and reading many blogs and websites to get a general feel for what people are saying about Internet marketing and different ways to generate income online.
So far I’ve already spent many hours reading, thinking… and searching for Wordpress themes.
At this writing, I’m many hours invested in my journey and the first fruits are this website that I will be adding to on a regular basis.
I’m really excited that the journey begins!
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