Analysis of the WordPress program for free behind how to profit

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We all know that WordPress is a community-managed open source program that everyone can participate in and that the program itself is provided free of charge. Then the commercial operation of WordPress behind the Automattic company is how to profit it? Below Automattic some of the current profitability of the way, I believe that their profit model can give some of our domestic open source program of the company some inspiration and reference:

1. Blog Hosting (blog host service)

Wordpree for these large companies, such as Om Malik, all things D, offer a blog hosting service of 500 dollars a month, they use the wordpress.com infrastructure to host WordPress blogs, So the performance will certainly be much better than other virtual host, this belongs to wordpress.com VIP account, not everyone can apply to.

2. Google AdSense

WordPress.com Free Blog may sometimes have Google Adsense ads, I believe you and I have not seen, because the emergence of advertising needs to meet the following conditions:

Blog access users are not using the Firefox browser.

If an Access user registers a wordpress.com account, he is not logged in.

Access to users is not a blog built from a wordpress.com, so users from abc.wordpress.com to xyz.wordpress.com will not see ads.

Although the need for a number of conditions to show, but wordpress.com on the advertising fee is very significant, because wordpress.com traffic now every month 1 billion.

3. AKismet

If you installed Automattic Kismet (Akismet), the best WordPress anti-spam message plugin, you certainly did not see Viagra (Viagra) spam messages on your blog because they were filtered by Akismet.

Now Akismet is free for personal blogs, but if you run a corporate blog or a blog group, you need to buy Akismet business License, which can take about 50 dollars.

In fact, there are some provisions for the use of Akismet services, for some professional blog, if each month from the blog to earn 500 of dollars in advertising fees, he should pay 5 of dollars to the cost of Akismet. In fact, we have always dreamed of having the opportunity to pay this fee.

4. Premium Accounts (wordpress.com advanced account)

Everyone can have a free blog in wordpress.com, but if you need space to store all the media files, or you need to use the binding domain Name service, then WordPress.com will charge you.

In addition, WordPress may allow free users to add Adsense ads, but wordpress.com demand Commission.

5. Web Host referrals (recommended by virtual host)

The Hosting page on WordPress.org recommends a bunch of third-party virtual hosting services that allow you to host WordPress blogs, and now all links are recommended (refferal) links, and it's obvious that Automattic will get a commission on every virtual host sale.

In fact, this host recommendation may bring automattic to want to be a considerable income, because WordPress official in Google Adwords ads, when you search in google.com "WordPress Hosting" ( This is a very competitive keyword when the first sponsor ad is it. Its advertising words are: "Top 5 wordpress Web Hosts–chosen by the developers of the WordPress blogging software".

6. WordPress Support (WordPress technical Support)

If you need WordPress (or WordPress MU) support, and the free WordPress forum can not solve your problem, this time you can consider Automattic official support network, WordPress The development team will help you solve the problem within six hours, and of course the service is geared toward corporate users who are willing to pay 2500 to 5000 dollars a year.

In fact, I also feel that the provision of professional technical support is a professional blog to profit one of the main methods, if I was to provide WORDPRESSS theme and plug-in production, and WordPress whole station solution.

7. Poll Daddy

After acquiring Poll Daddy, AUTOMATIIC has also developed a source of revenue, Poll Daddy offers a paid version that allows you to have an unlimited number of questions in each survey and no Poll Daddy brand in your survey.

This is the 7 of WordPress, open source is not free, open source allows you to have more users, so that senior users and corporate users pay enough to be profitable, and can make a big fortune.

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