Recommended Resources — Caroline Middlebrook
Free Make a Niche Website with WordPress Book
It’s about time I started delivering on my promise for more links to valuable resources. I’ve absorbed a ton of information over the past few days and sadly, I haven’t been posting enough about it here to keep my loyal subscribers updated. (You are a subscriber to Retired Pay World, aren’t you? If not, one click will fix it, and make my day, thanks).
Some of these resources are free, some will cost money, don’t worry, I’ll be sure to tell you, right up front if there are any costs or memberships involved.
Since building small, simple and profitable niche sites( Sites specializing in special subjects) are one of my greatest interests, I can’t resist the opportunity to promote this great offering from Caroline Middlebrook … a lady who read the tea leaves, quit her day job last year, and started earning a living online.
I particularly like the format of this book. Instead of just writing about this subject or that one, Caroline actually built a WordPress niche site from scratch, documented and explained the steps she was taking and ‘viola’, she had a book.
This book is 100% free, so strings and it’s free to distribute to all. Recommended. Caroline’s own write-up gives you all the info you need to decide if it is worth the effort to download and read.
How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress
What This Book is About
WordPress is a free and open source piece of software that is commonly used for developing blogs. This very blog is developed on WordPress. But what many people don’t realise is that you can do so much more with WordPress too and one of the simplest ways in which it can be used is to create old-style static websites.
Why would you want to? Because one of the most common ways to make money on the Internet today is to pick a popular topic and put together a small website consisting of articles related to that topic and monetize the site with ads. The traffic comes from search engines and once the site is setup, it just runs on auto-pilot.
Using WordPress to develop such as a site is very easy and as I show you in the book there are free addons to WordPress that make the whole process (especially the monetization!) super-easy.
What I have done to write the book is created my own little niche site from scratch and documented the whole process live, step-by-step with images. The resulting site is live and can be viewed as you work your way through the book.
The ebook is 41 pages long and these are the major sections:
- Chapter 1: Getting and Installing WordPress
- Chapter 2: Basic WordPress Administration. 10
- Chapter 3: Installing a New Theme. 13
- Chapter 4: Setting up Adsense On Your Site. 16
- Chapter 5: WordPress Plugins. 20
- Chapter 6: Creating Your Site Content
- Chapter 7: Final Thoughts
- Appendix 1: Uploading Using FTP.. 33
- Appendix 2: External Resources
How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress
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