WordPress is probably the most widespread free blog platform available on the internet.
Thanks to WordPress, in just few minutes you can build up your own new blog and start adding posts into it.
If you wish to earn money out of your blog, then WordPress can prove very useful, in that it allows you to quite easily insert Google Adsense ads or other advertising links into your posts and pages.
One important aspect of WordPress is that it gets constantly enriched by a host of independent developers around the world. They incessantly develop WordPress extensions, plugins or blog templates (themes), allowing you to add new features to your blog. A plugin or blog theme can be transparently installed from the wordpress.org site.
The WordPress version from wordpress.org is totally free, but it requires you to install it on a website of yours, which you must have purchased from a web hosting provider.
By owning your own website, you achieve full control over your blog and you can modify and enrich it to the extent you desire. Most importantly, you can insert Google Adsense or the like ads into it, in order to earn money without actually having to sell anything. Of course, if you do wish to sell something, that is possible too!
WordPress is freely downloadable from the wordpress.org site. A number of web hosts are already equipped with automatic procedures, like the one called Fantastico, for you to smoothly install WordPress by the click of a button.
If you do not wish to have your own website and are not interested in getting money out of your blogging, then you can freely set up your WordPress blog on the wordpress.com site. In this case, you do not need to buy a web hosting service, but your blog must comply with the wordpress.com specific rules, which prohibit the insertion into it of Google Adsense, advertising links and any other advertising in any other form. Therefore, if you are looking for money, I would say this solution is not for you. Just do not lose your time and efforts on it. If you try and insert commercial ads or links, you will end up by being banned. That’s exactly what happened to me. So, down with wordpress.com if we want to earn money from our blogging. Long live wordpress.org.
WordPress blogging + Google Adsense = Online Money Earning
