WordPress Earning Sources Unleashed

Jun 1, 2009

WordPress Earning Sources Unleashed

Well, WordPress has seen unexpected success in last couple of years and its owner Automatic has always been tagged as a profitable company although all its products (including the major product WordPress) are available for free download? Here I will analyze different sources of income for WordPress and will expect you to list more in the comments below if I miss any of them.

WebHosting Referrals

The WordPress.org website suggests some of the hosting options for new WordPress users and once you check the hosting page of WordPress then you will be surprised to know that all the links in their page are referral links! Their are six different hosting companies listed their and all are linked via the referral links. You can assume one referral link earning them over $100 for every single new user that registers via that link.

Premium WordPress.com Accounts

Although everybody can start their blog for free on WordPress.com yet to get access to enhanced features people need to make payments. This is an important source of income for Automatic considering the fact that WordPress.com has huge number of blogs and new users are continously registering.

Google AdSense Ads In Your WordPress.com Blogs

You might be surprised to know that the free blogs hosted on WordPress.com may at times display AdSense ads that bring money to Automatic. The 3 condition that need to be met for the ads to show are:

The user must now be using Firefox!?! I really don’t know the reason but this somehow true!
The user isn’t logged into his WordPress account.
The source from which the user came to this WordPress blog wasn’t a WordPress powered blog.

With over billion page views every month for WordPress.com hosted blogs, this AdSense income might truly be huge.

Domain Registration For $15

WordPress.com offers domain registration for $15 when you plan to move from freely hosted WordPress.com to paid hosting and use WordPress.org’s free WordPress. $15 is quet a huge money to register domains considering the fact that a domain can be registered for $2 also. With so many WordPress.com users moving to paid hosting services, this could also be a major source of income for Automatic.

Premium WordPress Support

Though the free version of WordPress support is enough for solving your problems but at times your problems might not find a solution and you might need enhanced support for your WordPress blogs. This is when you can buy the premium Support Network services and get responses within six hours. Though you might have to shell out around $5000 per year for such services. Think about it if you are a high level company!

WordPress VIP Hosting

Who would not like to have their blogs hosted in the overly accurate WordPress.com servers that are responsible for running the free WordPress.com blogs 24*7! Not everybody is accepted into this service but you can always give it a shot. As of now A-List bloggers like Om Malik host their blogs using WordPress VIP Hosting. They pay $500 per month for this service.

Akismet

Akismet (Automatic Kismet) is one of the best spam protection tools that keeps your WordPress blogs free from spam. For personal blogs the Akismet service is free but in case of corporate blogs you will have to buy the Akismet Service and pay around $50 per month.

Poll Daddy

Automatic also has a paid version of Poll Daddy where you can get unlimited number of question for each survey and the Poll Daddy’s logo isn’t shown in those surveys too.

Do not try to find out the total money that Automatic earns as this isn’t a listed company in any stock exchange so they are free to keep their incomes a secret!

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