20 Things Wordpress Doesn’t Do Out of the Box
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Page 19: Wordpress has no monetization abilities built-in
To make money from blogging you have to “monetize” your pages a bit and convert your visitors from just readers, to some kind of action - whether it be a click on an ad or purchasing something. While monetizing your blog will be a future series for me to write, for the purposes of this post I’m going to give you some Wordpress Monetization Plugins to explore. In contrast to the last page, these monetization plugins focus on the ability to use Affiliate Programs to monetize your Wordpress blog.
When I think about monetizing a blog, I usually go back to the first affiliate program I signed up for: Amazon. Many think that you can’t make money anymore from Amazon - and nothing could be further from the truth. I make money every month from Amazon. I suggest you read my posts How to Monetize Your Blog Part 1 - Adsense, Amazon Success on Any blog, and Amazon Machine Tags Wordpress Plugin. If you want a cool search and drag and drop interface to use from your WP dashboard “Write” page to pull amazon items into post, use the WP-Amazon Reloaded plugin for Wordpress 2.5+, and WP-Amazon for Wordpress 2.3x and before.
Let’s say that you want to put a rotating “stripe ad” at the top of your blog like the one you see at the top of this page. Just read Stripe Ad: Great New Way to Monetize Your Blog.
Maybe you want to insert eBay auctions into your blog posts, which can be a VERY lucrative and easy way to make some extra cash. I recommend you read my full post How to Earn Money Using Affiliate Ebay Wordpress Plugin BayRSS. I even show you examples of how easy it is to do.
If you want to insert your own affiliate ad codes into your posts and pages, rotate them and control who sees them (and when) - the Who Sees Ads plugin is a great choice for this as well.
You could even manage your own ad-serving system and sell links, reviews, banner ads, or just about anything in your site using OiOPublisher - The Best Blog Monetization Ad System I’ve Seen Yet.
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- Page 1: Wordpress Has No Breadcrumbs
- Page 2 - Wordpress has no Contact Form
- Page 3 - Most Wordpress Themes have no Archive Index
- Page 4 - Wordpress Has No Built In Stats
- Page 5 - Wordpress Has No Sitemap
- Page 6 - Wordpress Has no Database Tools
- Page 7 - Wordpress Has No Voting or Polls Tools
- Page 8 - Wordpress has no "Related Posts" Mechanism
- Page 9 - You Can't Reply to Comments Without Visiting Post Page
- Page 10 - Wordpress Comments are "nofollowed" by default
- Page 11 - Wordpress Has No Way to Append or Add Content to Your RSS Feed
- Page 12 - Wordpress Has No Way to Enforce URL Preference
- Page 13 - Wordpress Has No Mechanism for Adding Code to Posts
- Page 14 - Wordpress Has No Way to Control Meta Tags or Titles for SEO
- Page 15 - Wordpress Doesn't Log or Notify 404 Not Found Errors
- Page 16 - Wordpress Doesn't Log What People Search For
- Page 17 - Wordpress Has No Built-In Translation Capabilities
- Page 18 - Wordpress Has no Built In Advertising Mechanism
- Page 19 - Wordpress Has No Monetization Abilities Built-In
- Page 20 - Wordpress Has No Cache
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May 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
You really hit the nail on the head with this post…or 20 nails…
The funny thing is that everything you talked about here - are all things that i use on every blog. The comment form, the 2 sitemaps, the search log, some kind of stats, super cache, etc.
I’ve often wondered why a lot of these things don’t get built in.
Looks like the feed notations on commentluv didn’t work. delete the other one please.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Great resource you have compiled here. I think most people are aware of about half of these problems and the plugins to fix them, but this lays it all out.
Thanks!
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