Word press is a great tool. It’s open source, it’s free, it’s simple to master, it behaves perfectly as a blogging platform and a content management system. You can build blogs with it of course, you can create websites and you can make a combination of the two.
You can freely and easily change the look of your WordPress install as well. To change the look and feel of WordPress, designers and programmers are constantly developing new themes and templates. Some themes will cost you but there are 100x as many that are free. Expanding the functionality of WordPress is easy as well, by way of adding plugins, or programs, that allow it perform tasks not included with the standard WordPress program.
Even when installing WordPress the long way, it is simple to do, even for rookies. These days though, doing it the long way is unnecessary. Most hosting companies, if not all, give you the ability to install WordPress with what they call “1-click”. Honestly though, it’s more like 2 or 3 lol but it’s really that simple.
The long way would be to create a database, upload the WordPress files to your server and install WordPress, and supply WordPress with the needed information to add the necessary data to the database. With the short way, the database is created for you and the info WordPress needs to add data to it, is done automatically. Additionally, the WordPress files will be copied to your website directory for you.
OK, that’s good, you’ve got WordPress installed and now you want to make money with it. One increasingly popular way is by promoting eBay auctions as an eBay affiliate. A standard way to include eBay auctions into WordPress, whether you are using it as a site or a blog or cross-breed, is by using the phpBay plugin.
When using phpbay you can very easily add eBay auctions to WordPress posts and pages. Your affiliate ID will be attached to all outgoing auction links and you will receive a commission on the transaction fees of any winning bids, plus you get larger commissions for referring new customers to eBay.
