So I run several viral wordpress image sites and recently I thought I would add a little text link with my DigitalOcean affiliate link of it. And OMG! I can't believe all the sign ups I got in less than 1 month. I don't get tons of traffic, but I get enough for the hours of work I do a week on the sites. I'm averaging around 5,000 unique visitors a day. I'll cover how I'm doing that in the later blog post. But for now, here is the text I was using on my site:

Get $10 FREE for hosting when you sign up with this link for DigitalOcean!

If you are wondering, the reason the earned dollars are $0, it's because these are all new sign ups. I won't get the $25 until each member spends $25 in billing. Since DigitalOcean is only $5 for the basic droplets, I might not see the money until 5 months from now. But still, pretty awesome! If they all payout, I'll have free servers for the next couple of years!

This is why on my last post, How to make your wordpress site profitable?, I said it's best to know what your demographic is. For most of my sites, I know that most of my users are internet programers, bloggers, designers, 3D modelers, and so on.

Please leave your questions, feedback, or success stories below!

I know the title of this blog post sounds ridiculous but it's true. Last year, well 10 months, I started a couple viral blogs with tumblr accounts. I found this an easy way to develop and maintain these sites with less work but more profits than the traditional blog out there.

I'm sorry if this post doesn't make the most sense. I'm drinking a bottle of wine and watching a horror film while trying to blog.

Anyways, I love how tumblr brings me so much traffic on these sites. It all comes down to, what do people like and want to re-blog? or re-post? The more followers you get the better (common sense). So my tumblr accounts were getting decent traffic and my followers increased everyday. Once you hit 1000 followers, 2000 followers is close by. Some of my account are well over 10K followers with a traffic boost to my websites of 100%. So if my websites got 1000 visitors a day without tumblr, they would get 2000 visitors with tumblr.

In the beginning, my sites took more time, but now I do about a hour a week and my sites produce $75-100 a week. I bet you were looking to get rich, but hey, it happens, but not for me, yet. I'm trying to be a better blogger and I will share all my successes with you on this blog.

A key script to use is Next Scripts, it will automatically post to your Facebook, tumblr, twitter, sumbleupon, and more website to help get you the exposure with less work.

Also, you should have Yoast SEO wordpress plugin to make sure all your titles and meta tags are good.

And when you are running affiliate advertisers, I would suggest to use WP Wizard Cloak.

As for the making money part. I like to use affiliates like CrakRevenue or Adsense (if the site is clean enough) to make most of my money. On top of that, I reach out to sites like fiverr to sell extra banner spots on my site.

Please, don't let me know my writing sucks, I already know, just let me know what I can improve and help you with.

The first steps in making money with wordpress

Everyone hear tons of stories and experiences about people making millions online jusy by blogging. Yes, it's true, some people have good enough material on their sites that it attracts tons of visitors. But before you can even think about making money on your site, first think about your site as a whole and ask your self these questions.

• What is the goal of my website?
• Why will people come back to my website?
• What is the target age and sex of my website?
• What will set my site apart from others sites?

I'm sure I could come up with hundreds more, but that is a good start of questions that will need answered. I'm no blogging expert but I've had my share of success on the web and I want to share with you some of the secrets and tips I've gained over the years.

Just like in the South Park episode of the underpants gnomes, most people have no idea how to get from step 1, create website; step 2; step 3, profit. It's not that simple.

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This blog post isn't going to change your world, but I think if we hear it enough, we will start to understand the key points for making a successful website.

• Step 1 - Create a unique and interesting website that people will want to come back for more.
• Step 2 - Find affiliate sites, adsense, or other websites that would want to advertise to your demographics.
• Step 3 - Continue to make a website worthy of the web and the PROFITS will be sure to come.

Don't worry, not all my posts will be like this. And yes, I will share many ways to make money by not doing much work and letting some of these great plugins and scripts I've found over the years.