How to Find Free Wordpress Themes

1. Smashing Magazine offers up a steady stream of stunning, free Wordpress themes. (see Resources below for some links). The site has an RSS feed, so you can keep an eye on the site for new Wordpress themes.

2. Free Wordpress Themes is another site offering free themes. They don't have as many as Smashing Magazine, but they may have just the one for you.

3. The Theme Lab offers free Wordpress themes and reviews them too. This site also offers general information about Wordpress and Wordpress plugins.

4. If one of your hopes for your blog is to make money using Google AdSense ads, wpSkins provides AdSense-ready templates for free.

How to Do Google AdSense to Make Money

1. Go to the Google AdSense website (see Resources) and sign in with your Google account information. If you have not yet created an AdSense account, click the “Sign up” button, then click “Yes, proceed to Google Account sign in.” If you do not have a Google account, click “No, create a new Google Account” and then follow the instructions on the next screen.

2. Go back to the AdSense website. Click “My ads” from the main menu bar and then click “Content Ads”

3. Click the “+New” button to start a new ad. Give the ad a name, choose the size and type that you require and then type in a name for the “Custom Channel” you will use for the ad. This custom channel name is how you identify the ad in the reports tab, so pick a descriptive name like “Home page image skyscraper” or “Blue sidebar ad.”

4. Click “Save and get code,” then copy the code in the “ad code” box.

5. Open the HTML file for the Web page onto which you want to place the ad. Paste the code into the page at the desired location. Save the file. Ads will appear on the page within 24 hours.

6. Repeat this process for all other Web pages on which you want to serve ads. You can use the same ad unit on as many different pages as you like and you can even use the same unit more than once on one page. However, you cannot place more than three ad units on a single page.

How to Monetize a Website Without Using Google AdSense

1. Review your website with the eyes of a visitor. Place links strategically throughout your website pages that are easy to navigate and deliver a message that says 'Buy Now!'

2. Implement required changes in the navigational structure to increase accessibility for your visitors. Ask others to look through your website. Barring any huge changes, you're ready to begin to monetize your website with affiliate programs.

3. Research online options for affiliate programs Linkshare, Commission Junction and ShareASale are the big three in affiliate management programs. Also, if you have a favorite store, visit its site to see if it offers an affiliate program. Locate a standalone company that focuses on merchant and affiliate programs exclusively.

4. Collaborate with merchants that mesh with your current or planned content. For example, if you write a website about taking photos, then you'll want to join an affiliate program selling digital cameras and supplies.

5. Input your unique code that the merchants supply to you. This link allows you earn money from your affiliate program. The unique code is assigned only to you in either a banner or a text link format. You can often choose your design to enhance your website. Whether you joined a pay per sale or pay-per-lead program, the code is the same.

6. Test your links in both Firefox and Internet Explorer after you've inputted the code and uploaded it to your live website. Testing your links ensures the links work and that none of your visitors will have an issue clicking them.

How to Put Excerpts in Blogger

1. Open Microsoft Notepad or another text editor. Type the following HTML code:

Save the file.

2. Open a Web browser. Go to the Blogger Web site at www.blogger.com. Type your e-mail and password. Click the gray 'Sign in' button to go to the 'Dashboard' page.

3. Click 'Design' on the 'Dashboard' page. Click 'Edit HTML' under the 'Design' tab to go to the 'Edit Template' page.

4. Select the 'Expand Widget Templates' check box. Scroll down within the template code until you see the following coding:

5. Highlight the coding in the Notepad file. Click 'Edit' and click 'Copy.'

6. Position your mouse cursor in the line directly underneath the '

' coding. Right-click and click 'Paste' from the drop-down menu. The coding appears in the template.

7. Click the orange 'Save Template' button. Click the 'Posting' tab.

8. Type a blog post. Insert the following HTML code into the post where you want the excerpt to end:

9. Click the orange 'Publish Post' button. Click the 'View Blog' link to see the post excerpt.

How to Make Website Income

Advertising

Advertising is the simplest way to begin earning income from your website. To begin displaying advertisements, you simply need to join a network such as AdSense or Chitika, create an ad unit and paste the source code into your website. The advertising network uses various parameters, such as the content of the page being viewed, to select an advertisement likely to interest the reader. If the reader clicks the advertisement, you earn money.

Affiliate Links

Income from online advertising is interest-based meaning you earn money when a reader shows interest in a company by clicking its advertisement. Affiliate marketing is performance-based, and a reader must click a link or advertisement and complete a purchase before you earn money. However, the commission for an affiliate sale can be quite high depending on the product being sold. The key to success in affiliate marketing is finding a product that strongly appeals to your readers. Commission Junction, LinkShare and ShareASale are three networks through which you can promote products as an affiliate.

Subscription Fees

Some website owners may feel the integrity of their content would be tainted if they displayed advertisements or endorsed products. If this is the case, you may be able to earn income from your website by charging a subscription fee for full access to your content. Study the market extensively before you begin charging for access to your website as many people are unwilling to pay for Web content. You must be able to offer something not available elsewhere for free.

Product Sales

When you promote another company's products, you generally receive only a small percentage of the profit. While the amount of money you can earn from advertising or affiliate marketing may be substantial, it may be difficult for you to earn a full-time income without a product of your own. Creating and selling your own product may not be as difficult as you think. For example, if your website is informational, collect your best posts and sell them as an e-book. If your website focuses on entertainment content, create clothing and other merchandise with your logo. For example, CafePress is a service that allows you to design and sell your own merchandise. When you use a service of this type, you do not have to handle order fulfillment yourself.

How to Promote Affiliate Products Without A Website

1. Join Forums and discussion groupsDo a quick Google search and find a few forums that are related to the product you will be promoting. Find at least 2 or 3 that have a high page rank and register with them. Once you register set up your signature line which is where you will put your name and affiliate links. After you do that it is time to get active. Start posting questions, comments and answers to other member's questions. Don't promote your products in the body of your posts. Simply write a valuable informative response and people will read your signature line and more than likely visit your site.The more active you are the better. Try to visit the forums a few times a week. Once people see that you are a valuable contributor they will start to trust you. Once you build trust you will begin to attract visitors to your affiliate links. The more visitors you get the more likely you are to get sales.

2. Writing ArticlesThis is probably the best way to generate a ton of targeted traffic to your affiliate products. If you write good informative articles you will get a decent amount of traffic to your site. Submit each article you write to several different directories. I personally submit my articles to 7 different directories.Ezinearticles.com

Ideamarketers.com

Articledashboard.com

Affsphere.com

Ehow.com (revenue sharing site)

Flixya.com (revenue sharing site)

Howhub.com (revenue sharing site)Your articles don't have to be long. 300-400 words will do just fine. Make sure you have a compelling title. If the title isn't interesting then people won't read the article which means you won't get any traffic or sales.Make sure your article has a good keyword density. This is how people will find your article when they use search engines such as Google or when they search on the article directory site.Once you finish writing your article you will have a box that is called the resource box. This is where you will put your affiliate links and any other information about the product you are promoting.The great thing about articles is that they stay in the archives of these directories forever so you can still be getting sales from your articles years after you have written them. Doesn't get any better than that.

3. Linkreferral.comLinkreferral is a free traffic exchange site. You have to participate on a regular basis in order to get a decent amount of traffic. Here is how it works. You have to visit 30 sites in the network a day, comment on 5 of them, favorite 1 of them and make a post in the forums. Once you have done that you will receive 30-60 unique visitors to your site a day. Not bad for about 30-40 minutes worth of work.

4. Create a squidoo pageIt is true that you do not need your own personal website in order to promote affiliate products. The problem is that not all article directories will let you send their visitors to an affiliate website. Ezinearticles.com is one of them. Ezinearticles.com gets A LOT of traffic so it would be a great idea to submit articles to their site. To make sure your articles get published and to get around the fact that you can't send visitors directly to an affiliate website you can simply set up a squidoo page.Squidoo is a very high ranking site. Put together a good squidoo page by posting articles (the same ones you post in the article directories) and other information about the product you are promoting. From there you can send them to your affiliate site.

How to Get Paid to Advertise on Cell Phones

1. Go to the Google AdSense website. If you have a Google account, sign in with your Google email address and password on the Google AdSense website. If you don't have a Google account, create a Google email account at the Gmail website and come back to Google Adsense.

2. Input the required information in the fields. Click 'Next.' View your information. Select the best answer for 'Which best describes you?' and 'Would you like to use your existing Google Account for AdSense?' Type in the 'Word Verification letters' and click 'Continue.' Complete your registration and wait for your Google AdSense account to be approved via email. Once it has been approved, you can go to the next step.

3. Click 'AdSense Setup' and then click 'Adsense for Mobile.' Choose the format of your choice for your mobile phone and, then, select 'Server Side Script.' Install the code to your mobile phone and you're done.