How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress

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How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress

Posted by Pablo on January 12th, 2010

This fantastic post is credited to Caroline Middlebrook.

Video Version With WordPress 2.6

The PDF version of this ebook shows how to build niche sites using WordPress versions earlier than 2.5. That version brought major changes that required a re-write, but I decided to video the whole process instead. I built a brand new site from scratch and recorded screencasts of every step. The following links will become live as I publish the individual blog posts.

WordPress version 2.7 is out now which again brings another change to the look and operation of the WordPress dashboard which now renders these videos out of date. However, if you have read the ebook and watched these videos you should understand enough about WordPress to be able to find your way around the new version.

Original PDF Version

This is my very first ebook release and it’s completely free – you may download it and distribute it at will. Click the image to download the book…

Get the Latest Version

After about three updates to the Ebook I decided to start including revision numbers in the footer. If your copy does not have a revision number then it is out of date! The current revision is:

Revision 1.8

If you have an earlier revision then simply click the graphic above to download the latest version.

What This Book & Videos are About

WordPress is a free and open source piece of software that is commonly used for developing blogs. This very blog is developed on WordPress. But what many people don’t realise is that you can do so much more with WordPress too and one of the simplest ways in which it can be used is to create old-style static websites.

Why would you want to? Because one of the most common ways to make money on the Internet today is to pick a popular topic and put together a small website consisting of articles related to that topic and monetize the site with ads. The traffic comes from search engines and once the site is setup, it just runs on auto-pilot.

Using WordPress to develop such as a site is very easy and as I show you in the book there are free addons to WordPress that make the whole process (especially the monetization!) super-easy.

What I have done to write the book is created my own little niche site from scratch and documented the whole process live, step-by-step with images. The resulting site is live and can be viewed as you work your way through the book.

The ebook is 43 pages long and these are the major sections:

Chapter 1: Getting and Installing WordPress
Chapter 2: Basic WordPress Administration. 10
Chapter 3: Installing a New Theme. 13
Chapter 4: Setting up Adsense On Your Site. 16
Chapter 5: WordPress Plugins. 20
Chapter 6: Creating Your Site Content
Chapter 7: Final Thoughts
Appendix 1: Uploading Using FTP.. 33
Appendix 2: External Resources. 36

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