As early as 2002, blogs started changing the online marketing world and then more recently the affiliate marketing world especially with the introduction of WordPress.
While many everyday people started out with the many various blogging systems such as blogger.com (free), eventually most of them that were serious about making money online moved over to WordPress.
WordPress is now leading the way for many affiliate marketers as it offers so much more since the very first creation of the powerful Website Content Management (CMS) that emerged from the need for better and more flexible blogging systems.
If you read any popular blogging tips websites or forums online, WordPress is often positioned as a tool to have when creating not just an affiliate website but any online business or website.
So as an increasing number of marketers and even many web designers are finding that you can also use it to grow a profitable business empire very quickly and with out to much web authoring knowledge.
Why Has WordPress Become So Popular…
The most powerful function of WordPress itself lies in its ability to manage large amounts of text quickly as well as audio and video content. After a dozen pages it becomes difficult to manage a static HTML site and you really need to know what you are doing. Although you can use template-driven software as well like SBI or DreamWeaver, nothing beats the ease of the WP Platform.
Using premium blogging tools you can easily transform your out of date static (HTML) website to a article directory, a WordPress based membership site system, a complete e-commerce site, as well auction sites or even a portfolio site and so much more. As a matter of fact you can create virtually any type of online site you like.
So What Are The Benefits of Using WordPress For Affiliate Marketing
Another fantastic benefit of using this blog platform is the ease in which you can do Search Engine Optimization which and as you know is a very important element of getting your blog noticed online. Straight out of the box, this web 2.0 platform is very effective at optimizing and creating SEO friendly page content (blog posts).
However you can take it to the next level without having to be an SEO Expert and utilize the many simple WordPress plugins that are available online and most for free to further increase your SEO rankings and get better Yahoo, MSN (Bing) or Google rankings.
After you have used WordPress whether on the free server or on your own hosting account you are going to realize very quickly its flexibility for creating and managing content rich sites. You can easily switch between the many WP themes which are free or for a more professional look a paid template from companies like StudioPress, and improve its functions by using the many different plug-ins available and even some custom programming if that is what is needed for your blog.
And best of all it’s free and very easy to install on your hosting account especially if you use Hostgator hosting.
Getting The Best Advice When Using WordPress Blogs
If you aren’t using a WP blog as an affiliate marketer you should be. The learning curve has been minimized considerably in the past 3 years an currently it’s so easy to use even a six-year old kid can figure it out. To power your online business, go ahead and use a WP blog!
To discover more about WordPress, I strongly recommend that you check out StudioPress and learn how you can setup a blog very fast… and start blogging your way to making money online.
If you want to become one of the elite bloggers then you should check this out you’ll get tons of step-by-step video tutorials on how to use WordPress, web 2.0 technology, search engine optimization, generating an income from programs such as Google AdSense and affiliate marketing, and much much more.
It is worth noting that WordPress can be used for much more than a blog. I use it for 90% of my affiliate websites. I have created a plugin that allows me to import a datafeed directly into wordpress, creating a post for each product in the datafeed.
This means that I can great a new website in minutes when I find that niche, and concentrate on marketing rather than coding a website
Matt Houldsworth
http://www.digitalquill.co.uk/datafeedplugin
Hi Matt
Thanks for the comments and yes you are right WordPress is a very good platform for affiliate websites. And with the ongoing creation of new plug-ins such as yours the platform just seems to get better and more effective for marketers.
What a impressive post! I did a kind of blogging for dummies over on one of the CPA Marketing forums and I thought it was too easy for them, but the number of emails I got asking questions just like what you addressed was unbelievable. As young people today we have grown up with computers, but it’s easy to forget that even individuals just a a couple of years older have not! Really good post!
Yes Burton WordPress has become so easy to use now and it really does not matter what your age group is or your skill level.
WordPress has also just one a huge award for the best Open Source CMS for 2009 which is really one of the first big things to happen for them.
Its a bit like the old saying on how “The Best Things In Life Are Usually Free” just like WordPress.
I’ve been reading recently that it’s hard to switch from WP to a different host. Because WP has been so convenient, do you think they purposefully make it hard to stray away from using them and their tools?
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Hi Sam
This is not a hard exercise at all to move WordPress to a different host. If you are using a good hosting provider then they will do it for you but if your not, then you should have a look at something like this How To Back Up Your WordPress Blog.
If you are talking about moving from WordPress to lets say Blogger, then I am not sure how it is done as I have never tried and I am not sure why you would want to…
It’s a good article about the benefits of using WordPress for affiliate marketing. As a beginner in blogging, these details is very much helpful for me.
Hi James
There are so many features available to you when using WordPress that it is hard not to attract traffic. Being able to hook Facebook and Twitter directly into your site feed using Feedburner and even having the ability to show your comments in these social networks can draw a huge amount of traffic to your site very quickly.