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Website monetisation covers the practical ways to generate revenue from a WordPress website — beyond selling products through a shop. Articles in this category focus on the strategies and tools that let you earn from a site’s traffic and content: display advertising, affiliate marketing, digital product sales, membership access, and sponsored content.
The category covers both the setup and the ongoing management. That means getting display ads working correctly through networks like Google AdSense, structuring affiliate links properly and disclosing them as required, setting up digital product delivery without a full ecommerce platform, and building membership or paywall systems directly in WordPress.
You’ll also find articles here on the structural decisions that affect revenue — how to organise a site to support affiliate content, how to balance monetisation with user experience, and how to set up the legal and disclosure requirements that apply when a site earns money. The focus throughout is on implementation: the specific steps involved in each approach, not general advice about which monetisation model to choose.
Learn how to create a membership site in WordPress using a free plugin. This guide covers choosing a plugin, setting up membership levels, restricting content, and connecting a payment gateway so visitors can subscribe and pay.
How to manage affiliate links in WordPress using ThirstyAffiliates — from installation and link setup to inserting links into content, configuring nofollow, and getting your disclosure in place.
A step-by-step guide to creating a Google AdSense account, connecting it to WordPress using Site Kit, enabling Auto Ads, and getting ads live on your site.