Top 6 Ideas That Will Help You To Make Money With WordPress in 2024

You’ve finally been able to create the WordPress website that you’ve always wanted! Congratulations! This is now where the fun begins. In order to make money with WordPress, you will need a plan of action.

We are here to give you 6 ideas to help you formulate a plan to bring in big money – sooner, rather than later! Keep reading to learn how to quickly see the results that you want! 

The Domain Name Game 

One of the first tasks you need to take care of when it comes to creating a successful WordPress website is going to be finding your domain name. Because the internet is a vast area, growing every day, there is a chance that your dream website name has already been taken or costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Here is the deal: you don’t have to use your exact business name in order to find the perfect web address for your site. You can find some of the cheapest domain by simply tweaking a few letters or words while still getting your point across. 

Your domain name ideally will be your company name or something that relates to what you do without difficult or uncommon word spellings and little or no punctuation. Make it easy for people to remember while still conveying the idea of your brand.

In order to find the domain name that fits your business best, you may have to drop or add an article like the word ‘the.’ You could potentially include the city in which you’re located or even add an adjective.

For example, if your company is called Antique Bottle Finders and antiquebottlefinders(dot)com is taken, you could go do something like the examples below: 

  • theantiquebottlefinders(dot)com
  • thebestantiquebottlefinders(dot)com
  • antiquebottlefindersphoenix(dot)com
  • Or you could have some luck with removing the letter ‘s,’ making it antiquebottlefinder(dot)com

This is one of those tasks that will take a little time, effort, and creativity to find the right combination to help people easily find you!

Keep in mind that ‘.com’ is the most widely used top-level domain (TLD) but ‘.co’, ‘.org’, ‘.edu’, and others may also be used, while ‘.co’ is often cheaper.

Helpful SEO Content

Whether you are selling items or offering services, you will need some blog content – but not just any blog content – helpful and SEO-friendly content! This content will be the kind of articles people who are interested in your niche are searching for and offer helpful insight, reviews, or lists about your business or industry.

If you’ve never written SEO-style content before, it’s not exactly difficult. You’ll need to get an idea of what types of keywords people are searching for by doing some keyword research. Gathering your keywords will give you an idea of what topics people are interested in reading and help you create content along those lines.

This performs two tasks at once: by using keywords properly, you help your website rank better in search engine results but by offering helpful content, you create a readership (and possibly brand loyalty) to your website. This can become an excellent marketing tool and allow for new leads to find your site without much effort from either party.

…But Also Monetized SEO Content

Creating blog content can also open another avenue for passive income. When you become an affiliate of a product, you can include products in your blog content with a link to buy. Should someone click that link and choose to purchase, you will receive a percentage of the sale, basically a commission.

This is called affiliate marketing. While it might not be the best practice to make every blog a ‘sponsored’ or affiliate post, opting to incorporate some affiliate sites will help you pull in some extra money. 

To do this, you’ll have to partner with a company and most likely use a WordPress plugin to help create a professional-looking page. There are actually tons of Amazon affiliate WordPress plugins to choose from if that is one of the sites you choose to work with. Yes, you could just include a hyperlink to the product, but showing the item you’re talking about can lead to better sales. 

Another great way to boost your visibility, traffic, and domain authority for your WordPress website is by carefully asking for backlinks. If you happen to know someone who writes for a well-known website, consider asking them to include a link to your page.

If not, you can reach out to the webmaster of a website to see if they would be willing to include you in one of their upcoming posts. You won’t necessarily have an entire article about you, your website, or your product, but the link itself is what’s important.

Having strong backlinks from high-authority sources also allows your ranking to increase because of improved domain authority. With this said, sometimes (often) you may have to pay for high-authority backlinks. If you happen to get a great deal or it is done for free, repay the site by reciprocating or even giving them a shout-out in your blog. 

Build Your Email List (and Actually See Conversions)

As you begin to see your traffic increase, you’ll want a way to keep customers coming back, viewing your site, and making purchases. A great way to do this is by building an email subscriber list.

To do this, you generally must offer the visitor something in exchange for their information: some websites offer a promo code, others may offer exclusive content or early access to sales. This part is up to you.

If this sounds like we’re talking about using a landing page, we are.

The idea is to obtain their email address and contact information to prompt them to return by using email marketing. Your list will begin to grow and you might get overwhelmed with keeping up. This is an awesome problem to have!

The way you can keep up with this is by using email marketing automation tools that are designed to help you reach and convert potential leads while enticing repeat customers to return to your site. 

Don’t Forget Social Media

In 2018, it was estimated that 2.65 billion people were using social media and that number is only slated to grow. With that said, creating social media pages around your website is crucial to growing your engagement, leads, and conversions.

In order to be successful with social media (and in turn, help your website) you will have to create informative, fun, shareable content. Creation is just part of the process, though. You must consistently post to these pages.

If you don’t have time to do so every day, consider creating several posts at a time and opting to automate it. Posting consistently (not necessarily frequently) is how you will remain visible on people’s news feeds or timelines. You don’t have to share content every single day, instead, get in a routine or on a schedule and keep to it.

You will find that consistency – not frequency – during peak times of your customers’ social media use will help cause your traffic to skyrocket. 

A Place to Land

Earlier we mentioned using a landing page to capture information about potential leads. You can also use a landing page as a way to get people into the checkout flow of your website.

You might do this by offering a free trial for your services or content. If you happen to sell products, you might also use a landing page to get customers to “act now” on an exciting new product or a deeply discounted item.

The idea of a well-designed landing page is simple: get the visitor’s information and/or prompt them into completing your call to action. Unlike your homepage, a landing page won’t have many links, will explain your product or service effectively, and will have a strong call to action to help visitors convert to customers.

One of the best features of landing pages is the fact that you can create a new one based on each of your marketing campaigns and various offers. In fact, doing this is encouraged as you can target people at various stages in your sales funnel.

The End Game 

Creating a WordPress site isn’t difficult (even for beginners) but to be successful, it does take a fair amount of work and planning. By putting these ideas into use, you should be able to create traffic and grow your business into a money-making machine. 

Very often, creating any type of website is a game of trial and error. You must keep trying various combinations of strategies until you find one that works for you. Once you find this perfect mix of ideas, you can implement them and alter them as needed.

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