What many people want along with WordPress is the ability to earn a small amount of income from their efforts. Some are happy with even a couple of dollars a month while others are looking to earn thousands a month.

Now, you have probably already followed some of my advice to use WordPress to make money online but you haven’t yet found some of those plug-ins that will help you earn some money in the mean time.

Let’s go over a few of the plug-ins that could be useful to you.

Are PayPal – A great plug-in to monetize your website. Secure some of your posts with this plug-in and have your users, not only register, but pay a small fee to view the content of a post. This can also be used in a page instead of a post. That way you can make your post, point to the page for the content and have the user commit to a small fee to read the rest of the exciting news you have to offer. You can also set it up so that a subscription can be made to allow users access to your paid content. It uses PayPal, so you will have to have an account if you don’t already have one.

AdSense Manager – A great plug-in for those who want to use Google Adsense or other networks. Adsense Manager supports AdSense, AdBrite, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Commission Junction, CrispAds, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN and WidgetBucks. Place one of the ads in various positions on your pages and posts.

WP125 – This is a great plug-in for small 125×125 banner advertisement manager. Allow advertisers to place a small banner on your website. The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads. Lots of features make this plug-in a must have for your website if you plan on selling advertising space.

AdRotator – While not quite as easy to use as WP125, this allows you to include any banner in a random rotation. Simple to run and add new banners. You may need to modify some of your template code though. And, unlike WP125, you will have to pay attention to when the banner expires. Use this for your affiliate banner ads instead of paid banner advertisements. Use the WP125 for those.

Amazon Showcase WordPress Widget – Add a widget to your website with items from Amazon.com. It requires you to have an Associate Id. Just add your id to the configuration and pick out things to promote. A commission from the sales will be mailed to you once you reach a threshold for payment. This is a great way to promote products and make a little money at the same time.

With these suggestions, you can earn a small to large income depending on your traffic. They are easy to install and configure and will more than likely add to the usefulness of your WordPress blog.

Basically it is a website that someone else has set up and is advertising as a “Mall”. This is a great idea if you want to do it.

Let me tell you how you can do this as well.

In a previous post I discussed Content Management Systems(CMS). You can also set up your own online shopping website with OsCommerce.

Download the open source software from OsCommerce and install it on your website. If you need a website, we can provide one here for a small fee. Just contact us and we’ll give you the details.

Once you have OsCommerce installed(really easy instructions to install), You just have to figure out exactly what you want to sell.

Don’t worry about inventory. You won’t need it in most cases.

Don’t forget to set up your paypal account. You may also need to get a business license since the next link will take you to a website that has Drop shippers.

Most drop shippers will require a Tax Id. You can’t get that without going through the IRS. But that process has been made really simple through the government as well.

Alright, so now you have basically everything you need except inventory.

The website you need to go to next is called World Wide Brands. This website deals with Drop Shippers and Wholesale dealers.

What exactly is a drop shipper? I talked about this quite a bit on another post.

OsCommerce has a module you can plug in and create an affiliate system.  This will help you by getting other people to advertise your mall for you.  Sure you have to advertise it yourself but if you get enough people, all you need to do is set up an automated system where they will advertise for you.  You do the quick work.  Calculate the affiliate fees each month and send them a check if necessary.

It all sounds really complicated but it really isn’t.  You can even specialize your store towards a specific area of the market.  Then make other malls that do something similiar but specialize in another market.

This all gets back to advertising and traffic.  The more advertising you have, the more traffic you get.  The more traffic you get the more money you make.