Wordpress places advertising on your page. You can avoid this by taking the hosting elsewhere eg. to Go Daddy. Once you have done so, you can then earn revenue from taking on advertising (or an affiliate programme, with links through to retail products).
The cost of external hosting is minimal per year (perhaps $80). When I chose to do this (with another site I run) I asked Wordpress to organise the transfer over to Go Daddy for me - and paid them about $120 to do so.
I think that Wordpress can be a good foundation from which to promote your book, since it's easy to follow other people within particular genres/themes. Commenting upon other people's blogs is a quick and easy way to form 'relationships'.
Of course, everything takes a certain amount of time, so you need to decide where you want your focus to be.
As with anything (Twitter/Goodreads/Facebook) I think the key is to target effectively - or you are probably just wasting effort.
I use Wordpress (am not at all technically minded but it's all quite intuitive).
It costs about $25 a year to buy a new 'name' for your site (so you can avoid 'Wordpress' in the title).
Mine is www.emmanuelledemaupassant.com (please feel free to have a nose about).
Wordpress places advertising on your page. You can avoid this by taking the hosting elsewhere eg. to Go Daddy. Once you have done so, you can then earn revenue from taking on advertising (or an affiliate programme, with links through to retail products).
The cost of external hosting is minimal per year (perhaps $80).
When I chose to do this (with another site I run) I asked Wordpress to organise the transfer over to Go Daddy for me - and paid them about $120 to do so.
I think that Wordpress can be a good foundation from which to promote your book, since it's easy to follow other people within particular genres/themes. Commenting upon other people's blogs is a quick and easy way to form 'relationships'.
Of course, everything takes a certain amount of time, so you need to decide where you want your focus to be.
As with anything (Twitter/Goodreads/Facebook) I think the key is to target effectively - or you are probably just wasting effort.
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