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Today’s post shines light on one of the most common WordPress questions noobs and pros ask all the time. What is the real cost of building a WordPress site? Well, to solve this conundrum, I will begin with a short tale because stories are…well…great. Ready? Good. If you will indulge me, please read the next para in that British accent we all love. This one time, I scored myself a reseller hosting account with a popular host in Middlesbrough, UK. After racking my brains for a couple of days, I decided to go into business offering dirt-cheap WordPress hosting. I mean, what else could you do with a free reseller hosting account? WordPress is Free I put together a WordPress site and initiated marketing. Long story short, things were looking good by many standards because – on the very first day – I received six prospects from my neck of the woods. That’s sort of a big deal considering I shared the link on my Facebook profile only once. The only problem? They were wary to … [Read more...] about The Real Cost of Building a Website with WordPress

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Wanna make some money? Of course you do. Who doesn’t? And do you know what the best part is? You can make a killing using WordPress as we’ve already seen in the recent past. Today we will build you an affiliate site, so you can go ahead make some moolah, and buy beach houses, Ferraris and the works. All this for you, just so you can learn something new and live large because you deserve it. The world is yours. – Scarface More precisely, we will build a product review site using the platform we so love and cherish. That’s because there are different types of affiliate sites as we will see in a moment. We will arm you; give you every tool and resource you need to transmute your dream into reality. You will make money with your affiliate site, provided you’re prepared to put in the effort required. Of course, you can’t get something for nothing. So wow us in the comment section at the end. That out of the way, grab your seatbelt, it’s pedal to the metal all the way. Type of … [Read more...] about How to Build an Affiliate Website using WordPress

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As a WordPress user, you’ve likely heard talk of Pinterest and the almost other-worldly power it possesses to drive FREE traffic to your website. And if you haven’t heard yet, please check out this epic post discussing how you can boost traffic to your WordPress site with Pinterest . There’s a reason why bloggers and WordPress enthusiasts in the know talk about Pinterest as if it’s a mythical being. Part of the magic lies in it being a visual search engine and social media platform. Meaning savvy users can harness the power of both SEO and social sharing opportunities in one place. Still not a Pinterest convert? Well, you’re about to be! Now we’ve piqued your Pinterest attention… Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing social sites (having around 322 million active users every month) and one of the most significant sources of free website referrals. Plus, people generally flock there in droves to pin valuable information or products they want to spend money on later. Whether … [Read more...] about How To Optimize WordPress Blog Content for Pinterest

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You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and democratizing publishing, and we don’t want to alienate any of our users no matter how much some of us may disagree with some of them personally. Today, I’m breaking our no-politics rule, because there’s something going on in U.S. politics right now that we need to make sure you know about and understand, because it affects us all. Using WordPress to blog, to publish, to communicate things online that once upon a time would have been relegated to an unread private journal (or simply remained unspoken, uncreated, unshared) makes you a part of one of the biggest changes in modern history: the democratization of publishing and the independent web. Every time you click Publish, you are a part of that … [Read more...] about Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

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