While I was cruising around the internet searching for a cool new theme for this website, I stumbled upon www.themelab.com. After reviewing tons of their high quality free themes, I realized they also had some helpful articles about the WordPress publishing platform.

I found this really cool article titled “Put your dormant domains to use with WordPress“. It’s a very simple and straightforward tutorial about how to set up your WordPress blog to automatically syndicate posts from other blog feeds. He goes on to say:

For those of you domainers who have a lot of unused domain names earning nominal revenue at old-fashioned domain parking services or simply collecting dust and not doing anything, read on. Developed domains will almost always outperform one-click landers at parking sites. One of the easiest ways to do quickly develop a domain is to set up an automated WordPress blog.

Just a small note before continuing. This isn’t a guide on making content scraping/rewriting splogs. I’m merely going over a much more efficient way to monetize unused domains, or possibly to augment your current blog with regularly updated news from relevant feeds. Aggregating RSS feeds legally is a perfectly legitimate way to add content to your WordPress blog.

Click here to visit www.themelab.com to read the entire article.