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WordPress.com is finally giving its bloggers the opportunity to earn a little revenue from their well-crafted words, and taking a jab at Google simultaneously.

Online advertising has been Google's (news, site) main source of revenue so far, bringing in US$ 28 billion in its fiscal year 2010. Given the increasing trend in smartphone and mobile phone use, Google wants to leverage the popularity of mobile phones, and will be ramping up efforts for profitable -- and interesting -- mobile advertising models.

From the Pick Your Battles Department, Google has recently revealed its revenue-sharing practices for its two core AdSense advertising products: AdSense for Content and AdSense for Search.

Last summer, Microsoft tossed Microsoft PubCenter to the wolves (beta testers) to see how it would do. Recently, some extremely positive feedback has surfaced.

The mega company’s advertising program, which was originally thought to be gearing up to be some serious competition for Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher network, is currently being tested through ad network YieldBuild. Interestingly, the network reports that the program will work better alongside its competition rather than in place of it.

So you’re in the web provision game, and you’re too much of a big shot to use WordPress, right?
If you’re doing multi-user, community-based, advanced website features then I can understand that. For a pretty-boy website and a heavily branded product, you don’t want WordPress. If you’re building the next Facebook, or setting up a web solution for The New York Times, this is not the tool you need.

But if you are doing a bit of blogging and want to put in a few ads here and there, or run a newsletter, a RSS feed, a poll and an occasional blogcast, then WordPress is perfect.
It’s low-maintenance, set-up is quick, updating and customizing is a snap, and non-techies will find the back-end content management intuitive and hassle-free.

But the best thing about WordPress, as everyone knows, is the sheer weight and quality of plugins to extend this cuddly Micro CMS. Here’s a few of the best.