Make Money with your Blog using WordPress.org »

For some new bloggers and blogger’s to be, the issue about WordPress.com and WordPress.org can be quite confusing. Many people have started a blog using WordPress only to find they cannot monetize their blogs with ads because they are using WordPress.com and not WordPress.org. I’ve gotten some e-mails from a few bloggers who used MCB’s tutorial and went to WordPress.com for help and received the wrong information. Luckily I knew what the problem was because I did the same thing when I first started. So I’ll explain the two versions as best I can.

Wordpress is an open source blogging software that is used by most blogs and a lot of websites on the   internet. Open source means the software is “open” or free to anyone who wants to use it to run a blog or website. It’s a blogging software that is easy to use because it takes care of the HTML coding for you. However, if you’re into coding, that’s even better because you can use coding as little or as much as you like. There are two versions of WordPress (three, if you count the MultiUser version but that’s used by the larger websites who host blogs under them). The software works pretty much the same in both versions, but there are some differences in how you use your blog.

WordPress.com  is “hosted by Wordpress” and it is completely free. You do not need to find hosting.  If you sign up with WordPress.com you will be in a WordPress Blog Community under the umbrella of Wordpress.com. This is mainly used by serious “web loggers” and you can make your blog private to only your friends and family if you wish. Read more »