Before you head off into the sunset to being your WordPress money-making adventure it is very, very important to remember that you need website traffic to make to make blogging full time possible. While all of the ways to make money from your blog mentioned above are viable you need a decent amount of traffic to actually generate a significant income. Blogging is not a get rich quick scheme, if it was everyone would be blogging full time! It's a delicate balance of quality content, good traffic and engaged readers that makes a blog profitable.
Quality Content
The easiest way to help yourself in the long run is to make sure you are product high quality and original content for your blog. For the love of WordPress please do not content scrape from other sites. Take the time, write your articles in your own words and do it the right way. You certainly may quote sources if it's relevant to your post topic, share a definition from dictionary. com or include a code snippet from the WordPress codex if you credit your source. It's important to include a name and a link to the original source of the information.
Good SEO
Along with good content you need to follow good SEO practices to ensure search engines are happy to list your website in their results. Search engines are one of the top sources of new traffic. Have a look at some of our popular WordPress SEO articles to get stated.
Reader Engagement
Affiliate links and advertisements won't generate any income if your readers aren't engaged, returning to your site and clicking on your links. There are many ways to boost your visitors' activity but here are a handful of posts to help get you on the right track:
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Next time we'll cover how to make money with WordPress service products. We'll also be sharing how we got started and the path we took to grow our product portfolio so you won't want to miss it!
