Ads
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I still have never seen ads. When the option to have ads on our blogs starts, will it still be on everyone’s blogs even if they don’t want it? Because I’ve been thinking I want it on my new blog but not on my Nosy blog since that blog is now weird but true news, So I can’t imagine what those ads will be like. Like what kind of ads will show on a post about when another man cuts off his penis? What kind of ads are showing on those penis posts that I can’t see??
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That of course is another reason why it would be ‘awkward’ to provide details on clickthroughs. The last thing they want is a flood of complaints about inappropriate ads.
If your blog is flagged as ‘mature’ then in theory there shouldn’t be any ads at all, since Google’s ToS states that Adsense sites are banned from carrying ‘mature content’. I have no idea whether the secret algorithm actually takes this into account, but if you do see ads on a ‘mature’ blog you should report it to Google.
If your blog is not flagged as mature, you will have to wait for the Adsense upgrade and then pay for the ads to be removed. (Unofficially, you can block them with the custom CSS upgrade, but I wouldn’t advise it.) People who don’t buy the upgrade will still be subject to having ads on their blogs, and I’d guess they’ll increase the frequency to make up for the people who have opted out.
I’m disappointed by the attempt to obfuscate between ‘ad blocks’ and ‘ads’. I think most people would consider links and blurbs for five or six sites to constitute five or six ads, regardless of the number of code blocks needed to display them. If somebody could point me to a screenshot of that number of ads not looking sploggy, it would help to put my mind at rest that the ‘bug’ has indeed been fixed.
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“The last thing they want is a flood of complaints about inappropriate ads.”
Being on our features page, which is the most popular page on WordPress.com, covered in our TOS which you’re required to read before signing up, and of course mentioned in the forums many times I think most people have a pretty good idea of what’s going on. Most of the feedback is “if you have ads how come myself and my visitors never notice them?” There have been maybe a few dozen real complaints since launching the feature over a year ago, usually a result of a bug. Because of the amount of feedback we get an actually unpopular features will generate more complaints in a single day than that. (And we fix it.)
We fully comply with Google’s TOS, and our approach of only showing ads the bare minimum of times and never to loyal visitors of your blog has is also enabled as a popular WP.org plugin.
We take lots of steps to ensure that nothing looks sploggy, for example on a short post that we would normally show an ad on we don’t because we don’t want to shadow the content. You should only ever see one ad block on your screen at normal resolutions, if at all. The whole system is tweaked constantly and I believe it looks good on every page now, and if it doesn’t it’s a bug. Most of the reason we’re charging for the upgrade once it’s available is to keep out the riff-raff and splogs. WordPress.com has (rightfully) earned a good reputation for being very harsh on splogs.
Anyway I think swyves original question “How can I see how much money I could make?” has been answered, “We’ll let you know when we launch the Ad Control upgrade.”
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on a short post that we would normally show an ad on we don’t because we don’t want to shadow the content.
Oh, so that’s why we have a word count feature now. ;)
I don’t expect ads to look good. I just want them not to look bad. I don’t mind showing a few ads to people who can’t be bothered to install a decent adblocker, I just don’t want casual visitors thinking I’m so desperate to make a profit that I’ll slap ads above and below the post.
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Well the new system is very tasteful, I don’t think anyone would think you’re desperate for that reason.
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Why yes Wank, my other site is labeled “mature” even though it’s not. Maybe that’s why I never see them. Kewl!
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