Wordpress is a blogging platform that can also be used as a Content Management System (CMS). It takes little time or effort to manage your site's online content and keep your blog up to date with Wordpress.

Wordpress functions like a word processor using a special administration panel called a dashboard to create and manage posts and pages. All aspects of your site including category management are performed using dashboard.

The really awesome thing about using Wordpress as a basis for your Adsense (#1 way to earn money online) website is how customizable it is. Wordpress users have access to thousands of different templates, called themes, and many optimize your click through rate by including Adsense blocks in optimal positions. Simply select a theme that is Adsense ready from the thousands readily available, upload it to your server, and you have created an Adsense website quickly and easily to earn money online. This leaves you with more free time to concentrate on writing quality content for your website!

Some Wordpress themes that include Adsense ad units (to earn money online) and link units are also Search Engine Optimized (SEO), which means that the pages of your site are constructed in the best way possible for search engine spiders, and also the pages are interlinked in such a way as to ensure the search engines can reach all pages of your site in the correct manner.

Each new entry you post will generate an alert "ping" from Wordpress using pingomatic. Search engine spiders will be alerted to index your site whenever they are thus alerted that you created new content. You can produce site maps and RSS feeds automatically as well which multiplies the power to earn money online.

Visitors can comment on blog posts and other comment you generate, thanks to the blogging platform that is part of Wordpress. You will find that this features makes it much easier for visitors to interact with you and to stay on your site for longer periods of time. Another often overlooked advantage to this (and to your ability to earn money online) is that your readers are creating more content on your website each time they leave a comment!

By using some of the easy to install plugins Wordpress offers, you can easily and quickly increase the available functions on your site. One super-useful plugin for affiliate marketers automatically turns words into links. The plugin affiliate marketers may love the most creates links from words completely automatically. Creating a list words you want associated with affiliate links is very simple.