I run a number of websites, a large number of which are WordPress sites. I like to monetise most of my sites so I can atleast cover hosting costs etc. So I started out the usual route with Google Ads; its very easy to setup and once the site starts getting more traffic you pick up a few clicks. Then I investigated the route of affiliate advertising; again very easy to setup either via affiliate networks or a lot of sites manage their own affiliates now. So these options are great and you’ll make a few quid off them for …

Have you heard of Fiverr or Gigbucks? They are micro job or “Gig” ad sites which provide a cool new marketplace for people to sell their services for a small price. Now these services can range from logo design to grass cutting to silly things like singing happy birthday!

Buyers of course can pick up some good deals as Fiverr is limited to ads at $5. This means sellers can only advertise at this rate so getting your grass cut for that price would be a pretty goo deal (especially if you have a large lawn). Other sites offer sellers …

Simple Press Forum

A lot of WordPress website owners either need or want a forum. After all they can add another social interaction tool, its another place to put your content and place ads. So we are agreed that a forum is cool and adds extra dimensions to your WP site but there are a few options out there but one for me stands out head and shoulders above the rest: SimplePress Forum (SPF).

SPF was born in 2006 after creator Andy Staines found existing forum plugins to be sub-standard and set about creating a simple yet effective forum plugin for his website.

Opencart v1.4.0 has been released and is available to download here.

First off lets review the store front. This continues to improve and has definitely done so with this new release, it is probably now the prettiest cart out of the box! For those without the skills or time to change the template it offers a good look to simply start selling…it hardly needs any setting up and is simply thebest option for any online selling noobs out there. It does however give a wealth of functionality and flexibility for the more expert user but i digress. Being …

ClassiPress Premium WordPress Theme

I decided to start a classified ads website for my local area a few months ago. I searched Google for a couple of days and couldnt find software that was quite right.

I found Noah’s Classifieds and although I was not totally sold buy their website and demo of the software, I did find the recent feature of a bridge to WordPress very interesting and useful. So having found nothing better I decided to purchase the latest E-Commerce SEO version at $199.95 and the WordPress Noah Premium Widgets at $49.95 (I believe the actual bridge is free).

So having just …

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