If you want to start an easy and lucrative home-based internet business, you should think about blogging with WordPress. You can download it from the internet. Itas a free publishing platform that you can find on the web, download easily, and have your own blog in no time.
There are two ways to get stuff onto you site with WordPress. The first is to write a blog post. Each post you write will replace the old one at the top and all the rest will move down. Someone coming to your site will see them in reverse chronological order. In addition to blog posts, you can put up informational pages. Here you can put some biographical notes about yourself and any contact info you donat mind publicly posting.
Log onto the WordPress software you downloaded and youall find you have a couple of ways to put up a new post. First, on the Admin bar, you can choose the new post link. You can also choose aadd new linka from the Post tab. A new window will pop up and you can type your post in there.
There are in general many ways of adding a new post. The first one is that after logging in WordPress, select the Post tab and click on add new link which will open a new window for adding a new post. Second option is to make use of Quickpress module available on the Dashboard.
Each post should be given a catchy title. You should also spend some time coming up with appropriate tags. WordPress offers a multitude of categories. Put some effort into this because readers use these to search through posts and organize their reading.
A great trick many WordPress users like is to schedule their posts. You can set WordPress to put up a new post at whatever time you like. This is helpful if you write a bunch of posts at once. You donat have to put them all up right away. Stagger them over a day, or even a week. Add some information to your author profile, and you can also check to see if your posts have gone up. User plug-ins allow you to modify the appearance of your page.
But how do you earn money? Through the affiliate marketing programs WordPress has. All you need to do is write good blog posts with links to the affiliates, and youave started down the road to earning cash from sales through those affiliates.
Start building traffic, and when enough people read your posts with affiliate links, you start making money. Youad be surprised how many people make a steady income in this way. If youave been considering starting a home-based internet business, this may well be the idea youave been looking for.