Ads on blog by my choice

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  georgetownlacrosseblog · Member · Jan 27, 2011 at 5:07 pm

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  I am interested in selling ads on my blog. I have no idea where to go on my dashboard to make this happen. Is it even allowed?

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Jan 27, 2011 at 5:45 pm

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  WOAH! You are in the wrong place. Doing that here will get your blog deleted.

  In a nutshell free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM cannot be used to drive traffic to third-party sites by means of advertising and/or affiliate programs (see next section for more clarity). E-commerce cannot be conducted on wordpress.COM blogs. No retailing or reselling the work created by anyone other than yourself is allowed.

  Affiliate marketing blogs
  The only exceptions with regard to affiliate links are found here:

  Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top
  profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category.http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

  Advertising
  I am sorry, but advertising is not allowed on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. The only exceptions are for high traffic blogs that qualify for and are accepted into the Ad Control program, and very high traffic blogs that qualify and are accepted into the paid VIP hosting program.
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://vip.wordpress.com/

  If you require advertising and/or affiliate links on your blog, you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org In that case, please see the information at the link below to learn about the differences between free hosted WordPress.com blogs and WordPress.org software installs for self hosting. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/