A lot of folks start blogging because they want to make money. There are all sorts of streams of revenue that can come from blogging, and many new bloggers don’t even know about all of them. Ads, affiliate programs, paid posts, guest posts, reviews, book deals, and even folks hiring you for other gigs based on the expertise you display on your blog posts. These are just the beginning.
There are many tools that can help you make money with your blog, and some of these tools are WordPress plugins. They don’t help you make money directly, at least none that we know about, but they help to facilitate you to make some profits.
There are several WordPress plugins designed for helping you to make some scratch. The following are just four WordPress plugins for making money that you can try out with your own site.
Google AdSense ads are one of the most common ways for bloggers to make money. While easy to use, beginning bloggers can easily get a little hung up trying to get these ad units onto their site, and this is just one way in which AdSense Made Easy can help.
This plugin lets you add AdSense units to any widgetized area of the theme. All you need is a Google AdSense account and this plug in. It lets you not only place the ads, but it also offers you all of the same functionality you get directly from the Google AdSense site. AdSense made easy makes making money simpler.
If you are new to blogging, you probably have read a lot about search engine optimization, but you might be wondering what the big deal is with SEO. SEO helps your pages climb to the top of search results, which means more visitors, and with more visitors, it is just a matter of time before you find more people are clicking on your ads and doing other things that make you money.
The All In One SEO pack makes SEO easy. Without this plugin, SEO can be difficult and time consuming. With this plugin, you simply need to enter information and fill in the fields provided for you to start optimizing your blog.
3.) Google Analytics for WordPress
Stats can tell you a lot of things about you blog. It can show you what days of the week are the busiest, and which ones you should consider using as your day off. They can also show you what kind of content makes users flock to your site, and it can show which posts made people stay far away, or click off after a mere moment.
This plugin helps you with this. From your blog you can see all of the great information that Google Analytics has to offer… and more. By seeing the big picture, and accepting that your readers don’t like it when you post pictures of your Aunt Mildred’s birthday party. This in turn can help you direct your content to things that draw in more visitors and in turn, more money.
4.) eShop
Shopping online is a big business, and e-retail keeps growing and growing. You can have a piece of that pie with this plugin.
eShop lets you add a store to your WordPress blog. With this plugin, your visitors can fill a shopping cart with whatever you want to sell, and you can accept payments in a number of ways. Of course, you would need to have something to sell to make money with eShop, and this could include eBooks related to your niche and any services you can offer to potential clients via the web.
These are just a few plugins to get you started. For more information about basic setup to get you started off right, check out this WordPress website checklist.
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eShop sounds a great plugin to use for a WordPress blog. Does it work like a regular eCommerce wordpress site or something else?
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Great post, I have never heard about AdSense Made Easy plugin before.
Thank you
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David,
Nice post! I love google analytics on my WordPress blog but I prefer to copy and paste the code so I have one less plugin to slow my site down and complicate the code. I even created two videos on how to do it.
As for shopping carts, I prefer 1shoppingcart. Once again no plugin required and it’s only $34 per month.
All-in-ONe-SEO is a solid plugin too for SEO but I use the Thesis Theme so that plugin really isn’t necessary.
Thanks for sharing!
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Thank’s for sharing information… it’s so helpfull for me
I have already a blog that relative new, I hope it can help me..
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I didn’t know what to expect with the title, but this is great. What’s even better is I’m using two of the four.
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Hi David,
Google Ad sense is the best tool for revenue generation for wordpress blogs.
Keep blogging…..
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Hi David,
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First off, this post is extremely thorough! I have been using a few of the wordpress plugins mentioned above As for me For your blog entries optimization, free plugin like All in One SEO Pack is really cool as the plugin lays down the basic SEO foundation for a WordPress website, however, I must say that every blogger is different and nothing works best for everyone.
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I have been reading quite a few blogs posts recently who have said that the All In One SEO Pack plugin takes a lot of resources on your server to run and slows down your blog. I’m not sure if it is true or not as I abandoned SEO plugins a couple of years ago.
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Google analytics is by far the most essential plugins for all wordpress users.
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This is great! My blog is relatively new and I haven’t monitized it yet. I will be using all of the above to start! Thanks so much!
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I have been using all of these plugin except #4 eShop. I guess it depends what kind of blog and niche that you are in.
I use the plugin #1 on those Adsense centric niche sites and it’s very handy.
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Hi David,
Adsense works for me too. It is a great plug-in. Those who have second thoughts about it I recommend you to try this. Lol!
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I totally agree with you Robert. All things do take work of some sort. However for someone to very computer savy or online business savy “Adsense Made Easy” may not be as easy as its name proclaims.
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Hi David, I use the AdSense Optimizer plugin and it seems to be working well for me right now. I also hear that Pretty Link is another good plugin for adding affiliate links. Have you tried that one yet?
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All in one SEO is a godsend to my websites, i find it so so easy to do on page SEO using this, resulting in my backiinking efforts being at least halved
I have always wondered when it is right time to start earning money with a blog, especially if a blog is not started up to make money in the first place. I really find the eShop plugin useful, although this is the one I never heard of, but it is definitely worth checking out. Thanks a lot for this great share!
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I have always wondered when it is right time to start earning money with a blog, especially if a blog is not started up to make money. I really find the eShop plugin useful, although this is the one I never heard of, but it is definitely worth checking out. Thanks a lot for this great share!
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Nice post, I was used all of this plug-ins it is really works. I really agree that adsense makes money in your blogs.
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I’m going to have to check out the eShop Plugin, seems really decent.
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Great list! Adsense Made Easy is an amazing tool, you can optimize your own ads so it won’t look like a spammy one. This is the first time I’ve heard about All in one SEO, I will give it a try.
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These are all great resources, thanks. All in One SEO is a great plugin.
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I personally prefer SEO Ultimate instead of All in one SEO. Seo Ultimate has a ton more options than AIO Seo and Id recommend for everyone to check it out.
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I have used all of the above except for eShop. The SEO pack works great and is really easy to use especially to beginners. The AdSense Made Easy is still a little difficult to understand and get started unless you are familiar with AdSense. For my wife however, with no online advertising background, it was rather hard for her to get it rolling.
I recently started blogging, as you said, to make money. Thanks for sharing your streams of revenue. I’ve really been wanting to put together some adsense.
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great article, I personally use adsense made easy, thanks for sharing.
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It’d be great if there actually was a plugin that somehow did just make you money by having it installed on your site. Unfortunately life isn’t that easy and you still have to work with these plugins to make anything
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Adsense Made Easy is awesome if you make money from Google. I remember back in 2005 and 2006 having to hard code Google ads into my WordPress templates. A plugin like Adsense Made Easy makes it ten times easier (and faster) to get your ads just right. Massive headache avoidance :)
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