Yesterday afternoon I decided to upgrade my site and join WordPress Ads! I have been blogging for years without being monetized and finally I’m opening the door to start getting paid for my passion.
Of course, this is only the first step towards starting to get paid for my blog. I will be looking into other avenues as time passes as well. Prior WordPress was always putting ads on my blog posts that I wasn’t getting paid for. So now, I’ll be getting a bit of income myself for all the work I do blogging.
From there I also want to explore more what having an upgraded site means and what it’ll offer me in the future. I’m excited to spend time and see if I can redesign my blog a bit and add things to it over the course of this next year.
Who knows? Maybe I can start to make a real source of extra income from doing what I’ve always loved to do.
One of the main reasons I did this is because I’m working with an injury that needs to be healed. If I can manage to make extra enough maybe it’ll be possible for me to take time off of work and be able to rest my wrists so they can make a full recovery.
The other reason was it’s about time. I love writing about books and being a part of the WordPress community. It was about time I started to make a bit of income from it.
If anyone has any advice for me about monetizing a blog or any resources I should look into let me know down in the comments! Also, if you all have any information about Word Ads and how well it’s worked for you, let me know in the comments as well.
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Congratulations! Word ads never worked for me. I used WP premium for a year but didn’t get anything so I turned to self-hosted WP this year to monetize site and it is working so well for me. I do get $2-3 a month through Google Adsense.
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Aww ok thanks for letting me know. I will probably do the same and switch after a while. I do want to explore other options as well in the meantime.
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congrats
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Thanks
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do share the process of it. in any of the blog
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Will do
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Well done Tiana. Its a bold move and i’m hoping you’re proud you did it soon. I too am considering an upgrade on wordpress and wanted to know if you’ve opted for hosting the domain at wordpress or elsewhere? Do let me know and all the best.
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I’m hoping to move to self hosting in a few months or so. Right now I’d just upgraded the plan and the WordPress ads don’t get much money to be worth it.
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