Building a Niche Blog with WordPress
Due to the ease of setting up a WordPress blog, one growing method of generating income online has been the method of building niche blogs using WordPress.
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SEO for WordPress
When Matt Cutts, who is the head of Google's search engine team (and probably the most powerful/important guy in the world when it comes to search engine optimization), spoke at WordCamp 2007, he gave plenty of good SEO tips specifically targeted towards WordPress users. Here are some of the key points/recommendations that he made during his presentation: -
Build Forums in WordPress
If you'd like to add forums to your WordPress blog, you have a number of options available to you. Here are the three I have experience with and recommend as viable options -
Using WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS)
Though WordPress is by far the leader when it comes to blogging software, it has made significant strides in the last two years towards becoming a quality Content Management System as well. This means that those who love WordPress can now easily bridge the gap between blogging and a website designed for news by setting up their blog as a CMS. -
Advertising, Affiliate Marketing and WordPress
Most of us start out blogging for fun, but it's inevitable that eventually it will be time to take a shot atm making money online. After all, we WordPress users have web hosting costs to cover, as well as other costs such as advertising. Even if you aren’t wanting to pocket any money, why not at least try to offset these costs? -
WordPress Plugins Section
Probably my favorite feature and one of the things that originally attracted me to WordPress was the WordPress plugins that you can get, most of which are completely free. Other than a few exceptions, most WordPress plugins can simply be uploaded to your website and activated to begin working properly. -
Setting Up a Multi-Author Blog
Whether you are building a blog that supports multiple authors, or you simply want to have guest posts on your blog, there is a good chance most bloggers will at some point need to learn about the Users tab in the WordPress dashboard. I'm going to go ahead and break this section into two parts. The first section will be how to use the Users tab and the second section will be how to hack your theme to be more multi-author friendly. -
Installing WordPress
In order to truly get the most benefit from your WordPress install, you will want to use the self-hosted version of WordPress, which can be downloaded for free at WordPress.org. -
Success with WordPress
Are you looking to find success with WordPress? Over the past year, WordPress has become the top blogging platform in the world, and many major internet companies (such as CNN, Yahoo, Sony, The New York Times, People Magazine, and eBay) have taken notice. A quick browse around many of these companies websites show WordPress installations being used to manage portions of their websites. At the same time, many bloggers are using a number of techniques to make significant income with their WordPress blogs. Are you getting the most out of your WordPress installation?