Advertising

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  ladycrunk · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 6:05 pm

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  adding adverts to blog

  I’ve been approached to begin advertising on my blog for a fee. I’d like to pursue this endeavor because of the potentially lucrative nature of it.

  What upgrade should I pay.

  Are there specifications for blogs based in Africa?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 6:08 pm

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  The assumption that advertising on blog is lucrative is erroneous. In fact it’s among the the biggest myths perpetrated on the internet. Those I know with self hosted WordPress.org installs that have blogs with page ranks of 5 and 6 and strong traffic flows don’t make much more than pocket change over and above their hosting and associated costs each year.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 6:09 pm

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  You cannot post advertising on your blog here at WordPress.com. There is only one advertising program called WordAds at WordPress.com and it’s for blogs on their own domains. Aside from a blog being accepted into WordAds http://www.wordads.co/ no blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work or products created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed on free hosted wordpress.com blogs. E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on free blogs from and being free hosted by WordPress.com. Paid content and/or sponsored content is not allowed.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  On free hosted WordPress.com blog we can use a contact form and/or a PayPal button for sale of only products or services created or provided by ourselves.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  There is no upgrade you can purchase from WordPress.com that changes any of that. If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising, affiliate links, paid or sponsored content you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org
  Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/