I know that works as I found several ghost users discussing Google Adsense. But my question about ads is a little different - I wasn’t trying to ask if it was possible to put them on the site. I also wasn’t clear on what the “canonical” tag bit meant, if that was a way of manually doing SEO or something else, etc.Īmazon Affiliates should work, I agree. I much prefer the idea of it being automatic, but I’m curious if anyone has compared it to using a plug-in elsewhere, etc. I did read that SEO article, and it’s helpful, but I’m not clear on how well it’s going to work. I’ll definitely be doing it, but not until late summer or Fall. The only coding I’ve ever had was a single Pascal class I barely paid attention in 2003 or so. I’ve got significant overtime hours at work right now and no time to play around with something like this, especially as it will involve teaching myself a bit of coding. I just like having data in front of me and appreciate everything - There’s not much point in me trying Pro for 14 days at the moment. Thanks for the responses! Let me go through a few more things here - and I promise I’m not trying to be difficult or argumentative. And I saw someone explaining a method for doing spoilers, even if it wasn’t really built in… Man, I’m excited. I saw someone saying that parent/child tags were a thing? So if I had a tag for “novels” I could do sub-tags for fantasy, mystery, thriller, romance, etc… which was a desire but not a deal-breaker, so hopefully that’s available. Other things I have planned I think I’ve managed to find examples of on the forums. Thank you for your time! Please let me know if any of the above isn’t possible on Ghost, because I’m fairly sure it is… but I want to make sure! I’m personally planning to just do #2 and hope to get a little out of it after a year or so… but on the off chance I love it and want to do more, I wanted to check that the rest of these options were viable. Ability to sell things directly such as an eBook, Printable, or whatever else - I personally have no intention of doing this, and I’m fairly sure that Ghost can work with Shopify now, but I wanted to check that this area is covered.Is there any reason they wouldn’t approve a Ghost blog with high traffic? Because I have the impression that most blogs are still WP and I don’t know if companies like those (who can afford to be picky) might only accept WP blogs for some idiotic reason. Ads - The best ad companies are apparently MediaVine and AdThrive, and a blog must be approved for those.Amazon Affiliates - I have no reason to think this wouldn’t work with Ghost.SEO optimization - Ghost has this built in, but is it manual (I put in my keywords) or does Ghost pick them out for me? Is it at least 80% as effective as the plug-ins or whatever people use with WP?.

With that in mind, here are what I’ve been told are the best monetization methods for a typical blog: There’s a lot of comparisons out there for Ghost vs Wordpress and which is best for what, but so far I haven’t found a list that clearly states whether or not Ghost can use all the monetization tools that are available to WordPress. More would be better, and here’s where this thread comes in - there are a ton of bloggers out there who make cash (usually very little, but sometimes more) and they mostly use WordPress. I have no expectations of making a living from blogging but it would be nice to bring in enough cash to pay the $29 a month plus a few other amenities.

I don’t want to just start a blog purely for fun though.

I had wanted to start it years ago, and I used to hang out on the old slack channel and chat about it before there was a forum, but life got in the way. I want to use Ghost for a blog starting in a few months. And yes, I realize that if I were better at coding and understanding handlebars, javascript, bootstrap, and the half dozen terms I know nothing about I could probably answer these questions for myself… but while I consider myself a tech-y person it doesn’t extend into those particular realms. I apologize if this shouldn’t go into help and should instead be elsewhere, but I didn’t see a general information forum.

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