adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog
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The “cheap and sensible” option is to get self-hosting at a reasonable price, install the free WordPress software, and go independent. Then you don’t have to worry about the ToS either; the only restrictions are those of the law and the host you deal with.
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many bloggers mention somewhere their blogs, that if the reader sees ads, its the property of wordpress.com and or google. Although thats not entirely satisifying, i prefer to do this as well.
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Just wanted to say, I really like the community here. It wouldn’t be as fun floating out there on my own. I hope the admin here follow through on the no-ads upgrade option. If I’m going to spend $7/month for a host just to avoid ads, I’d rather give that $7/month to WordPress.
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I don’t complain about WordPress. Blogger is not as good. Bloger does not have as many features, and doesn’t attract the hits like WordPress does. I don’t care if they put ads on my blog. I’m just here to have fun.
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I also have Adsense advertisement, not directly on my blog but when I make a google search research by images. I don’t like that. It’s a commercial exploitation.
One day, I am going to put an announcement over these advertisements: I did not ask for these advertisements, do not click! -
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Thanks !
I understand.
Nothing is free but it’s too much expensive for me!
I would soon create my own site to exploit myself by myself (sorry for my english, I’m french).
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It does. If your blog is hosted here, Adsense will sooner or later appear on it. PERIOD.
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How and why AdSense appears is outlined in my post here:
http://tpvswp.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/is-there-really-no-adsense-on-wordpress-com/
There’s nothing you can do about it, that’s how wordpress.com works, like it or not. You are using a free blogging platform, and that’s the price you pay. My traffic on all my blogs has increased dramatically since I switched to WordPress, and although I don’t like the ads, some good has come from it. I can live with that. I only wish WordPress would be more open about it. -
yes I sent this in to feedback
Are you going to allow me to add adsense or am I wasting my time and breathe?
I am reading the threads and was surprised to learn I cannot choose to ad adsense to my blog. Shouldn’t that be my choice? I feel I must now consider moving my blog to another site for this reason – like Blogger. When I first signed up I was told the blogging hosts were pretty much all the same but people liked WordPress for it’s ease of building a page. I am angry that I’ll have to spend the time figuring out how to best move my blog.
The threads about this in wordpress were all high and mighty like “no ads on my pristine blogging page” etc – First of all that SHOULD BE a choice. Second of all – its the same pointless argument that those annoying pseudo artists (usually with trust funds) who believe “art is for artsake” and artists shouldn’t devalue their art by putting a dollar amount on it. That’s what renaissance painters did – worked for commission. (I think Van Gough would agree with me that it is a smart idea – he would have loved those millions his paintings now go for) that argument held no validity to me back in college and ditto for the cyber version of it now. And by the way I do make a living in an artistic field and I do happily place a dollar amount on my talent. It allows me to stay out of a cubicle.
It seems there is a way to hack in to do it but I am not html savvy enough to figure that out quickly. Anyone know how I can do that? let me know and I’ll email you offline.
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You said:
When I first signed up I was told the blogging hosts were pretty much all the same but people liked WordPress for it's ease of building a page. I am angry that I'll have to spend the time figuring out how to best move my blog.
Maybe you should have done the research first. A simple Google search would have answered that for you in no time before signing up. And believe me, on wordpress.com there is no way to hack into this. -
“If your blog is hosted here, Adsense will sooner or later appear on it. PERIOD.
writes Raincoaster. But, but, but.
OK, I sort of lease webspace to maintain a blog. Cost me nuttin’, all wordpress asks (without ever asking!), is to be able to put some ads in my posts. These ads make it possible for wordpress to please people in having their blogways at zero costs.
No blogger can object to that, right? But there are for sure a few buts.First of all; in the article on the TypePad versus WordPress blog, an example is shown of an Scientology ad.
Now I assume that adsense works by word generator. Which means that the moment I post an avid anti-Scientology article on my blog, the adsense machine enthusiastically provides an ad: ‘Join Scientology!’ The same with blog-crusades against promo’s for an anorexia nervosa lifestyle: I and my visitors are rewarded with ads for…slimming pills.
This is immoral, it’s a breach of my engaged principles. I have the freedom, the right as a writer to fight social and environmental destructives like fatal beauty obsession, the killing of seals for fashion demands, and so on. And every time I do this on my blog, what I stand for is betrayed. By displaying such ads I actually am made a brother in arms.
Speaking about arms: what if I write an anti-war article?…Again; wordpress is a free service. If I don’t like provider’s policies – or provider’s sneaky tricks – I pack my bags and blow my bloghouse to smithereens.
But what about this:
I buy a Honda Civic, park it somewhere, and a guy runs at it and spray-paints ‘THE NEW DATSUN IS OUT! Visit your local dealer for more information!’ on the hood of my car. Believe me, I would, and could sue mister Datsun.
…So what if I payed for an upgrade, WordPress? What, also, if the paying-off of ads is bogus, as TypePad suggested?
I would like to ask a lawyer if I, in case of hired blogspace, can be forced to promote an article or an institution against my will. On top of that: I receive not a penny in promo compensation.Lastly: I think it’s quite unfair that these ads are hidden to the eye of the creator and the moderator of a private, non-commercially intended blog.
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It is very interesting that WP makes Google ad on blogs. I wondered how fast I got page rank 3 in just maybe 2 or 3 month at Google’s last page rank update.
At least the WP guys know a lot about SEO thing to make a blog so fast popular.
But the truth is, they earn much much more than a private host cost.
Because they know how to get the best paid keys of Google ads on our blogs and that the reason why they offer us a blog for free.
It would be a good idea of WP if they would share the money at least with us.
Otherwise it makes no fun to waste my time and update my blog for them to earn.
So I get to make my own private blog.
Sorry for my bad English, hope make me understanding.Thanks
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I wonder if the wordpress board thinks of us as a couple of vampires, saptec. ‘Ve vant your blutmoney!’
It’s certainly not my intention to sue the hell out of wordpress – I’d loose, of course – but I wanted to make clear that the interaction between bloggers and blogspace providers is a 50/50 affair. Without providers no bloggers, no bloggers no providers. It should therefore be sensible to be a bit more lient and open towards the blogpopulation in regard to visual and moral contamination of their blogs. For some the visual presentation is half the fun, if not plainly their main goal. I already hate that Askimet logo for ruining my lay-out and delicate blogcolour compositions!
In truth: I’d rather see a small bar on top of my page than a row of fat links treading the feet of my post texts. How long before you are obliged to insert a linkeable brandname after every 250th word you post?
Far-fetched? Advertising is warfare, and knows only one destiny: escalation. -
I’ve heard estimates that if wordpress were to offer a paid upgrade to turn off the ads they run on your blog, it would likely be around $120 per year. Not all blogs have enough hits to bring in that amount per month, but that is what is thought to be the average.
WordPress has to pay for the servers, storage and the bandwidth that the bloggers use. It takes money. Blogger has access to the Google wallet. WordPress does not.
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I have my self-hosted blog hosted at A Small Orange and I’m using their “Tiny” shared server package. That averages out to about $1.70 per month (pay $25 for 12 months in advance, get 14). It’s 75mb of space with a 3GB per month bandwidth limit which is good for about 10,000 hits per month by my calculations. Add in the cost of my domains (I registered for three years which averages out to 2.08 per month) and I’m up to $3.78 per month. I spend that in one trip to Starbuck’s when I include a tip. Or if you want to look at it another way, it’s about $0.12 per day. I lose more than that in the cushions of the couch.
Go self-hosted. You want ads, you can have them. You don’t want ads, you don’t have to have them. You want to edit the CSS, go right ahead you have full access to it. You want to download a hundred themes off of the internet and change them daily, go right ahead. Your only restriction is not violating the TOS at the hosting service, or getting a large spike in traffic because someone did a digg on one of your posts and all of a sudden you had 8,000 hits in one day.
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@ vandeurz, I’m not sure what your point is: is it that Adsense is immoral? No: capitalism itself is AMORAL. It is not a morality-based system. To expect otherwise of it is to set one’s self up for disappointment.
Be aware of what having a WP.com blog means. Do NOT have the expectation that you’ll be able to run ads soon on a WP.com blog, because I asked and staff said not soon for sure. And know that, yes, if your blog is hosted here, Adsense will sooner or later appear on it. PERIOD.
Given those definites, make your informed choice about which platform you prefer. There are tradeoffs on all of them.
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No, raincoaster I was just musing. The problem is that I can’t see the ads on my blog, I’ve tried.
Of course I understand the investments necessary to get the train on the rails and keep it running. Ban commercials from tv and you can throw it out of the window: no programs.But what comes near amorality (I thought it was immorality’) is the way bloggers are tricked into carrying ads. I’ve read the comments, they’re expressing disbelieve, people who didn’t have an inkling – like me – feel sort of used. Therefore in my 2:57 AM comment I mentioned that I hope for some discretion in advertising inclusion. The examples TypePad vs WordPress gives, are horrifying. Yes, these methods may generate more income for wordpress, but is it really worth it? Are blogs considered tabloid fodder, so let’s encase them in Las Vegas neon flashables? OK, a bit exaggerated perhaps.
But another platform? Why should I? My attempts at a website were disastrous, I want to spend a mininmum of time in uploading and maintaining and HTML and CSS puzzles. WordPress.com is good and shows well, the 3MB upload freebie is great and any other serverprovider offering ad-clean blogs I wouldn’t trust any longer, because what I get to see may be a blog with ads that all wear Harry Potter cloaks. For all I know these advertisers use an animated popup that obscures my texts for a full minute (and links the visiter through to their product site once they try to click the message to buy Blogger’s Prozac to hell)
Anyway, the subject this poster unleashed upon us is of undeniable interest. Far more so than me asking in full naivety why my avatar link here doesn’t work anymore…
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