Make Money With Drupal CMS
Dries Buyeart the founder of Drupal, an open-source content management system, recently posted this graphic to his blog. The graphic explains the demand for Drupal developers compared to Joomla and Wordpress.
We decided to expand on this graphic to give people an idea of just how they can make money using the Drupal CMS. Dries' blog post entitled Drupal can help you pay your rent didn't contain any links to where developers might find work using Drupal. There are several websites around the web that offer job listings specifically for Drupal Developers. These websites apply to both freelancers and companies that wish to bid on Drupal projects.
Where to find Drupal jobs
- Drupal Job Listings on Drupal.org
- Drupal Jobs on Twitter
- Drupal Jobs on Indeed.com
- DrupalJobs.com
- Drupal Jobs on Monster.com
- Drupal Jobs at GetAFreelancer.com
Drupal Modules
There are a number of Drupal modules that can help you monetize your own Drupal installation. We've listed a few below with their main features to give you an idea of just how easy it is to set up an affiliate marketing or earn ad revenue from a popular Drupal website. Making money with Drupal can be as easy as knowing what modules to use.
Drupal Ad Module
The Drupal Ad Module supports the random display and tracking of graphical (banner) and text ads. Ads can easily be displayed in themes, blocks, or embedded in site content. The module records comprehensive statistics about when and how often ads are viewed and clicked, including a plug-in module for generating graphical time-based reports.
Drupal Affiliate Module
The Drupal Affiliate Module allows site owners to issue affiliate links to their partners. When anonymous users follow these links, the clicks are counted by affiliate, day, and optional keyword. When referred users sign up for an account, the account is associated with that affiliate.
The Drupal CMS
The way the Content Management System is built allows for easy design and upkeep of a website, thus giving you more time to market and actually make money with the website instead of dealing with the headaches of website design.
Drupal is an open-source platform that allows users to add/edit/delete content on the fly. The big advantages to Drupal for Internet Marketers are the contributed modules and the ability to allow clients to manage and create content. Drupal has many contributed modules that can be plugged in to the framework to increase functionality. For a complete list and overview of the best SEO and Internet Marketing modules available visit the Modules section at SEO Drupal. The ability to have clients add their own content is a dream come true for any Internet Marketer. Building Blogs and other user contributed content vehicles for our clients allows us to set up websites to have clients help out with their progress.
Another key to Drupals success and it's appeal to Internet Marketers is the ease with which community driven sites can be built. Building a Facebook type web application is simple with Drupal. With a mix and match of the right contributed modules you can set up interactive community websites. Since user contributed content is the ticket to having a dominant website these days, this seems like a no brainer. Why build a complex PHP based system when all of the framework is already built for you? Drupal allows developers to spend their time playing with the exciting aspects of their project rather than coding the same things again and again.
While we have nothing against Joomla and Wordpress here at Stikky Media we have been big supporters of Drupal for a few years now. Almost all of the sites in our portfolio were built with the Drupal CMS. The flexibility and ability to create intricate and simple sites gives Drupal an advantage. While the learning curve is larger than it might be for Wordpress and Joomla, this graphic makes it clear that the demand for Drupal is higher and thus the potential to make money is higher for Drupal developers.
At Stikky Media we work closely with the Victoria Web Design studio northStudio Inc. as well as the QCollege. northStudio Inc. develops almost all of their websites using Drupal while Q College offers the only Drupal training program known to the world. Q College is currently working with Drupal founder Dries and his consulting company Acquia to create online Drupal training programs.
As a Digital Marketer for Stikky Media, Simon spends his time optimizing web pages and using various Social Networking to promote content. Simon gains top Google rankings for our clients while using his strong Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook and Google+ accounts to spread the word. When he's not obsessing over fake karma points, Simon plays ice hockey and squash, he is also a skier and mountain biker and enjoys playing his guitar.
