Adding ads

linuxowns · Member · May 8, 2008 at 6:22 pm
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Will wordpress.com allow users to put up (text)ads any time soon?

I would even be willing to pay a annual fee for wordpress.com allowing to add ads.

Or does such a thing already exists (not the vip accounts!).
trent · Member · May 8, 2008 at 6:24 pm
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Until it is announced in the official wordpress.com blog, I don’t think any of us will ever know for sure ;)

Trent
jamesewelch · Member · May 8, 2008 at 8:13 pm
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I think you can do this, if you are a VIP blog and you get VIP status by paying more, etc.
raincoaster · Member · May 8, 2008 at 10:37 pm
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You can. That costs several hundred dollars to set up and I think $250 per month.

I really wouldn’t hold my breath on the ad upgrade being available any time soon.

If you have a WP blog on an independent host, however, you can put any ads you want on there. I met a guy who makes $300,000 a year from his blog. But he is absolutely the stereotypical greedy asshole type, so beware of your company in that environment.
aigoofansubs · Member · May 8, 2008 at 11:38 pm
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today i was thinking about the ads on blogs and how ppl can make money out of it
this is not possible on wp?? well as i see from your replies it’s not unless we pay to have it:S
so bad
well, my first blog is on wp so i don’t know about other blogs, but is it possible to add ads without paying on other blogs (blogger, blogspot..)???
jamesewelch · Member · May 8, 2008 at 11:44 pm
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You can do it on blogger/blogspot. In fact, blogger/blogspot is owned by Google, so adding AdSense there should be pretty easy.
raincoaster · Member · May 8, 2008 at 11:45 pm
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Blogger and blogspot are the same thing, and yes, you can have ads on them. It’s possible on an independently-hosted WordPress blog as well.

As a blogger who makes a living from advertising, however, I will tell you that unless you’re getting over 500 pageviews a day it is probably not really worth it. And this is just my aesthetic opinion but Google Adsense immediately tells the world you’re penny ante and cheap.
aigoofansubs · Member · May 9, 2008 at 12:24 am
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how must does the independently hosted wp blog cost?? is it the one at 30$/year??

my blog started like 4 days ago and am having around 100visitor/day
so if i can make it more popular to get more visitors , it would be interesting to have ads that can make me make money
raincoaster · Member · May 9, 2008 at 1:30 am
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It depends who you get to host it.
aigoofansubs · Member · May 9, 2008 at 1:54 am
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is’t wordpress who host our blog if we pay a certain sum of money/year?

i thought we can pay like 30$/year and they give us a domain name without wp in it and host it for us
or are those 2 different things?
vivianpaige · Member · May 9, 2008 at 3:08 am
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if you have wordpress.com as your host, even with your own domain, you cannot have ads. You have to have a separate host and then download and install the wordpress software in order to have ads.
nosysnoop · Member · May 9, 2008 at 5:56 am
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Google ads are useless unless you get thousands of visitors a day. Most make more money by seeking out individual sponsors.
raincoaster · Member · May 9, 2008 at 6:41 am
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Getting a domain name or ANY other upgrade doesn’t allow you to run ads. The only upgrade that allows you to run ads is the VIP upgrade which costs thousands of dollars a year.

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