Making Money With WordPress - Business Blogging at Home and Away

WordPress lets you build complete websites in less than an hour. They don't have to look like blogs, even though WordPress is described as a blogging platform. By now, WordPress is a general purpose content management system which happens to look like a blog right out of the box, but which can look like any other kind of site with ridiculously little work.

WordPress Moneymaking White Hat Strategy for Black Hat Wannabes

Because WordPress sites are so easy to set up and maintain, consider this perfectly legitimate strategy that feels black hat but isn't: use a free blog (such as the ones found at WordPress.com or Blogger.com) to promote or supplement your main site, which can just as easily be a separate WordPress installation. Search engines like incoming links. Nothing wrong with providing one or two yourself, as long as your secondary blog site provides real content.

WordPress Moneymaking Through Search While the free blogs are much less customizable and can suffer any number of indignities, such as being removed for being overly commercial in the eyes of the host, they can be set up lightning-fast.

One Way Ticket to Success Be sure your free blog points to your primary site and not vice versa. This will look less to the search engines like you're trying to game them. But make sure the free site delivers valuable, preferably unique information to the reader. That way they'll be much more likely to visit the money site.

Take advantage of free WordPress blogs to help draw traffic to your main site, and feel free to do it with more than one free blog. Then host WordPress yourself for the main site, so it can take full advantage of WordPress customization and plugin options. Because search engines are a popularity contest, your multiple site strategy will make you look as popular as the head cheerleader at a Homecoming dance.