An experiment for building a blog from scratch

This blog is on a brand new domain having installed WordPress a day ago. And while the main purpose of it is to document the progress of the book titled WordPress 101, it can also serve as a demonstration how to build a blogging site from scratch.

After reading so many clever blog posts about making money with blogging, I’ll use ads and other ways to monetize this blog. Of course, I’ll post the results (or failures), so you can learn about those, too.

For the moment I have some Adsense ads and my affiliate referral link to Text-Ad-Links. On my other blogs TLA ads worked quite well. I didn’t have much luck with the Google Adsense, maybe this blog will change that. I’ll keep you updated.

Later on I’ll add some existing affiliate links as well, I just have to find their right placement

Although I have designed many blog themes, for this particular blog I decided not to waste time with the design (my OCPD would keep me back from writing!) and went with a ready-made theme that was advertised as ready for monetization. I removed all the references to the original site for the simple reason that in the downloaded package there was a huge number of hardcoded ads and referral links. I think for novice users it is quite hard to find and remove them, so all those ads would make money for the theme designer. I consider this an evil practice - so my response is equally evil: removed every reference to them.

This article has 3 comments so far!

hdw says —
(On May 8th, 2007 at 10:14 pm)
Good luck, I look forward to what you have to say.
The Author says —
(On May 8th, 2007 at 11:47 pm)
Thank you for the good wishes. I hope it will be worth following the posts in this blog.
hdw says —
(On May 9th, 2007 at 4:32 pm)
Of course.