Or How Wordpress Doesn’t Make Money

“WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.” Matt Mullenweg Click here to watch a video about the inventor with the cherubic face of the Wordpress blogging software.

WordCamp is the name given to a series of community sponsored blogging events centered on discussions relating to the WordPress blogging platform.

Matt Mullenweg travelled to India for the WordCamp event in 2009. Someone surprised Matt with the “money” question. “How Does WordPress Make Money if you give it away free?

Matt, slightly rattled, first tried to say that his company, Automattic, is profitable.

But everyone at the camp had their high school diploma so Matt came up with the following seven “thought provoking-answers from How Does Wordpress …..” [My comments are in [] and are based on the research into Wordpress by Mark Evans]

Matt’s answer 1 [from How Does Wordpress ….], Blog Hosting – WordPress offers blog hosting services at $500 per month to big publishers like Om Malik, All Things D and CNN’s Political Ticker among others. They use WordPress.com’s server infrastructure to host your blog, and therefore the performance will obviously be great, but unlike other web hosting services WordPress VIP Hosting doesn’t accept everyone who applies so good luck.

[So only the creme de la crumb of VIPs get to pay $500/month. Everyone else has to suffer the embarrassment of getting it for free.]

Matt’s answer 2, Google AdSense - Free blogs hosted on WordPress.com may sometimes carry Google ads but these ads may only appear if all the following three conditions are met:

1. The visitor is not using Firefox browser.
2. He has logged out of his WordPress account, if he has one.
3. The referring source is not a WordPress powered blog. So a person reaching abc.wordpress.com from xyz.wordpress.com won’t see any Google Ads.

Even with all these conditions, the revenue generated from serving Google AdSense ads on WordPress.com hosted blog may still be significant as they do around a billion page views per month.

[This is unmitigated “Adnonsense,” and false because in 2009 they only got 482 million views. You would think the owner of the site would know how many page views he gets.]

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