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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Chapter 9. Making Money with WordPress

When you are reading blogs, you have probably come across at least one blog where the author says that he or she is making a lot of money online. In fact, many bloggers are making money with their blogs. Some people, who blog as a hobby, make enough money to pay their hosting. On the other hand, some Pro Bloggers make something like $3000 to $6000 a month online with their blog.

If you want to make money online, you've got to put in a lot of work, produce quality content, and promote your blog effectively. I'm not saying that the recipes contained in this chapter will make you a rich man or woman, but it can definitely improve your results with affiliate marketing, Adsense, or direct link sales.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • Integrating Adsense to your WordPress blog

  • Displaying ads anywhere in your posts by using WordPress shortcodes

  • Displaying Adsense ads to search engines visitors only

  • Managing who sees ads

  • Inserting ads in your RSS feeds

  • Redirecting your...