Comments on: So How is Wordpress Going to Make Money, Matt?

By: Dr. Mike Wendell

Dr. Mike Wendell — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:06:46 +0000

wordpress.com also has their VIP program for top level bloggers. They removed the pricing and are now quoting it as flexible but it used to be like $500 setup and $250 a month.

By: Robert A. Kearse

Robert A. Kearse — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:48:55 +0000

Affiliate sales of blog related products.

This can be done through free reports or viral ebooks.

If all Wordpree did was mail to its opt- in list members weekly with info that SOLVED A PROBLEM or FULFILLED A NEED, then it could include a commercial message a third of the time to produce substantial revenue.

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By: chrisco

chrisco — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:48:28 +0000

Many, many people would bail if they required advertising (or payment not to have advertising). There are too many alternatives. Definitely some people would stay, but many would switch and some would post written and video tutorials on how to switch and suggest who is the best alternative, why, etc. It would be bad, bad, bad for Wordpress. Of course, I am talking my book, as they say, as I use wordpress and I want it to remain free and ad-free. I switched from TypePad because it was not free and there were so many good alternatives.

By: P

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:48:42 +0000

Wordpress lives on Google Adsense… and makes a lot of money from it.
Here’s how:

http://pascal.vanhecke.info/2007/11/21/making-money-with-adsense-without-annoying-the-community-wordpresscom/

In fact, quite a few sites are applying the same technique nowadays with the “Who Sees Ads” Wordpress plugin.

It turns out that if you limit ads to people coming from search engines, Adsense income increases although impressions decrease, due to Google’s “Smart pricing” technique.

By: Daniel Schildt

Daniel Schildt — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:52:25 +0000

I too have been thinking about how Wordpress.com will work in future. But as it looks, it is evolving to blog service provider that can be used as platform for much more than just blogs. When you remember that with little extra you can add your own domain and customize look of site to your own, it really starts to remind me of how much this reminds different kind of hosting company.

Instead of requiring everyone to think about how backend systems works, they are focusing on the users and this way allowing lower entry to the world of web publishing. After people have learned how to use basic tools, they can transform their content to totally different look of their own (mayby with help of Automattic’s customizing services or someone else). Anyways, in long run this looks like viable business model. While it takes some time for people to realize possibilities of using it instead of having to buy seperate account for website.