Have you purchased a web domain for your WordPress blog/site?
In general, WordPress provides default domain to be used with your blog. For example, mohamadkarbi.wordpress.com. When you add a domain, you have additional address to be used with your blog; for example, mohamadkarbi.com.
You can purchase a domain directly from WordPress or from any other registrar and connect it in the settings area.
Disclaimer:
This post is most likely to benefit bloggers whose sites are running on a WordPress.org platform.
There is a very big difference in blogging on WordPress.org and WordPress.com. I have explained the difference here. Also, I have explained the benefits of setting up a self hosted WordPress site. You will also find a guide to setting up a self-hosted WordPress site, step by step.
You can find all these right here.
Good. Let’s now get to the topic of today:
Earning money from your blog isn’t a difficult issue. As I have been asked many times about this, I’m summarizing some points in this regard.
First of all, Mohamad is one of my first blog friends. He has supported me during my entire blog journey. A few days ago, I migrated to a Self-hosted blog and then I backed out shortly. I felt honored when Mohamad asked me to do a guest post on my experience. Thanks Mohamad.
There are a lot of topics over the net about how to drive or increase traffic to your website – free and paid methods. On WordPress, engaging with others might be the one with best results. Social networking is very important too such as sharing and engaging with people there through groups (Facebook), communities (Google+), boards (Pinterest), … etc.
This post might be more for those who are into CSS and with a WordPress premium plan. As I mentioned earlier, I like to keep my design the same on all platforms and themes I use. That’s, the blue banner with rounded logo, menu & search box at top, boxed posts, and rounded widgets at right side.
In case you’re interested, here is the CSS customizing for Twenty Twelve Template that is used on this WordPress site. I suppose that you’re familiar with CSS & Inspecting Elements on browsers. Please note that additional customization might be needed. For example, optimized ads (WordAds), Tablet & Mobile view, …