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My First WordPress Blog Didn’t Impress Me But…

Posted June 24, 2007 , By webmann

When I installed WordPress, some time ago now, I wasn’t impressed but really I wasn’t ready for the learning curve, so I continued with my static pages for another year or so. Time has passed and in that time I was never happy with my websites.

I changed them a number of times and was happy for a month but then the newness wore off and I didn’t care for it again.  Well over time I started thinking hard about changing but the work I had put into these sites was staggering so I kept putting it off. Then came the day of change and I haven’t looked back except to ask myself why I waited so long.

I tried blogger.com and have a few blogs there but I didn’t really care for that and didn’t feel I was in full control. Plus I found it hard to get any pagerank and very little income. Probably my fault but still I wasn’t comfortable, so I gave WordPress another shot as it had improved a great deal. I also was using my own domains this time and made that huge step to just start my pages over.

I have been learning more about WordPress blogs as I install it on each of my sites. I am now to the point of earning money online through these blogs. I have to say that learning about WordPress Plugins has made the difference.

I have plugins that allow me to use my affiliate program id and then makes it easy to earn money through my blogs.

I  must mention that I struggled with the change over for months but once I made the decision to do it I did it and I felt so much better, almost instantly. I also had it in my mind that my website stats would take a nose dive for a few days because all my pages were gone and new pages were added as posts with permanent names.

I only noticed things go wacky for maybe a week and of course my income didn’t grow much that week but hey, it was for the best because now it is only a short time later and I am already ahead of the game.

WordPress blogs do have a learning curve if you want to work with the plugins but I am not programmer and scripting scares the pants off me but I started with the first few plugins I search for that would help me earn more money on the internet and they weren’t as hard to work with as my mind had led me to think.

A new friend online has a great saying: “Just do it”

My motto: Knowledge is powerless without action. Without action you’ll be going nowhere.

Give a WordPress blog a try today and start learning how to monetize your websites.

I install my WordPress blog through my cPanel on my domain. From within the cPanel I went to the Fantastico button and the installation took all of two minutes. Just like that I was ready to start posting helpful articles and product reviews that would help people make money or do something better than before. Plus I was immediately able to start adding my affiliate links to point my visitors to products and services that will benefit them and myself.

Blogging and affiliate marketing just go hand in hand. Get started today.  By the way if you don’t have a website yet, you can do affiliate marketing without a website. You can also use blogger.com to have a free blog and do your affiliate program marketing there.

I do have free blogs myself but I use them to point to my own blogs on my own domains. Domains are cheap, less than $10.00 and hosting a domain is as cheap as $5.00 a month. You can have a Wordpress blog setup in less than an hour from the time you purchase your domain and get it hosted.

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