I have been blogging here for the past 5 months , however even then i am hardly what you can call a prolific blogger . Wordpress is a terrific blogging platform , and that is nothing new. But every day i get new examples or rather proof of that . In the past 1-2 weeks i have noticed how different people have been utilizing it to its ultimate limit – be it for personal pleasure or be it for earning money , below are some examples .

Example # 1. My friend Abhishek , who claims bloging has changed his life so much that he is now more of a blogger than a businessman . ( Inside scoop – he runs a web company with offices around the globe)

Example # 2. Some people are so obsessed with wordpress that they celebrated 15th August with the artwork mentioned here.

Example # 3. Wordpress as a free software, in the past few years has been playing a huge role in seo / search engine optimization for several sites and internet marketers. To stay in the radar for a large mass of wordpress users , several people have taken the oppurtunity to develop free plugins in order to further aid the increase in popularity of your wordpress site. create a realy useful wordpress plugin and keep giving optional support and you have got more traffic than you ever could amass using adsense or any other form of commercial advertisement.

Example # 4. What started as a similar ideology ala designing artisitic wordpress themes for free , has however now become somewhat distorted . People still continue making sponsored wordpress themes , which has now been blocked for submission on wordpress.org themes collection. This has not stopped people from carrying on the business , rather gearing up to make it into an art by itself .

Example # 5. But uptill now , all the examples were about invidual efforts on earning money or fanaticism or love for Wordpress blogging. But the probably the people who are in love with wordpress the most are the illustrious blog network owners and PaidtoBlog authors . It is not a big secret that blogs are a great way to get yourself or your product or service popularized .
Initially it started with true bloggers mentioning some service they purchased or some movie they saw or some web host they liked . Other visitors to that blog would comment asking more clarifications why they liked it or why they disliked it . This created a buzz , and if that blog had a good technorati rating or someone bookmarked that blog post , that would lead to a good traffic channel . Several businessmen and website owners found this to be a great way to get marketted and they decided to lure some bloggers to pay to write about their business or give them a link. There’s a bengali saying about tigers and taste of blood , i just cant recall … but the person who got $15 USD from some person he never knew for doing what he would have done as it is , would jump at the oppurtunity and if he is more than just a writer , he would take a cheap hosting, download 30 different free themes, utilise some even greater wordpress plugin to post simaltaneously on multiple blogs and create options for webmasters looking for getting 1000 backlinks, and a post on a page with google PR.
Google has recently come out with its paid link reporting tool , which might be the death of these paid blogging site for all we know , but at least untill that gets confirmed over the time , webmasters with blog networks ( often with multiple authors spinning diverse content with extra payment ) , will make some good money , and i can tell you this much that its nothing near to a measly 15 USD .