Advertising on Word Press
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You don’t necessarily have to. You DO have to pay a whack of money, though.
Affiliate programs are DIFFERENT from paid advertising. You need to talk to staff about affiliate links, etc in your blog. Etsy shop links, for instance, are perfectly fine for Etsy members with substantial blogs.
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The VIP info page might have changed recently. It currently says:
Because of the nature of this program it is not open to the general public, it is intended for existing high-profile publishers, or startups that we have a good deal of confidence in. You may be a good candidate for VIP hosting if, for example, you get more than 500,000 pageviews a month on your blog.
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Or if you anticipate getting them. “Startups that we have a good deal of confidence in” means you don’t have to have ANY hits when you start.
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But really, the reason I always recommend the VIP program if people insist on having paid ads on WordPress.com is that it costs money to make money and that pricing structure gives them a pretty clear message.
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LOL. I worked hard to bring my blog from blogger to wordpress, thinking i would benefit. unfortunately, even after workin hard no ads i gues to earn a penny. But WP is the best platform a budding blogger can get.
anyways, if WP- ever
allows adsense on a paid basis, i will be prepared.
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Why when I check my page do I sometimes see Adsense adverts? Are they being put there by the WP team? I know I can`t do it . . . but I didnt know that my posts would be subjected to “Adsense Interruption Marketing” by WP….anyone confirm this…?
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I can not understand any reason not to allow advertising – why are all these bloggers writing for free? I have just spent a month blogging and find that ads are not allowed…you are going to loose a great deal of business this way.
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I can not understand any reason not to allow advertising – why are all these bloggers writing for free? I have just spent a month blogging and find that ads are not allowed…you are going to loose a great deal of business this way.
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I can not understand any reason not to allow advertising – why are all these bloggers writing for free? I have just spent a month blogging and find that ads are not allowed…you are going to loose a great deal of business this way.
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Nobody who commits to a blogging platform without regard for it’s ad-friendliness is destined for success in the field of blog advertising. And I got that tonight, from a man who makes $300,000 a year from his blog.
colombianart, you see adsense on your blog because WordPress.com puts it there. I had a complaint from a scholar today that I’d used a quote from her works on a FOR-PROFIT blog, and she hated that and demanded I take it down. Of course, it’s all the ads that WP.com put in there that made her think it was some kind of spam site. I had to write her a Calm Down email.
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I found that “Advertising
To support the service we may occasionally show Google text ads on your blog, however we do this very rarely. In the future you’ll be able to purchase an upgrade to either turn the ads off or show your own ads and make money from your blog. “
Here http://wordpress.com/features/
Thought that might help.
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I didn’t see the advertising issue before either. Here I’ve had my blog over 90 days with intentions of working with an ad program so I can make some money for my family to supplement our income and now I realize I have wasted my time here. Very frustrating and stupid on my own part for not paying attention to it. wordpress needs to get with the program. I love my blog but I’ll be going somewhere that I can advertise on my page to help support my family.
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WP offers free software if you want to host a blog with no restrictions. They have already gotten with the program, but you made the wrong choice. Not too late to change.
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to fieldsketching
I have nothing to advertise, but I love cartoons. When I include cartoons in a post, I mostly have to say where I took them from to avoid the copyright “issue”, and some of the cartoons that I took are from a cartoon drawing school. In fact, each time I open my mouth I seem to be advertising something or somebody! I get the news from the IHT, I get cartoons from a German blogger or from that cartoon school, I recommend ABE books to get Socrates or Harry Potter for a dollar. — If you simply write your blog about your daily activities there, is that advertising? — And I have seen things that are a little more touchy: there is somebody who shows off her drawing and lets you knows that she sells them as T-shirts at such and such a place. If I were WordPress, I would not allow that.
(If WordPress allowed ads, I would maybe make about 15 cents a month; would I then have to get a lawyer to fill out a tax report to file in the US?)
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To fieldsketching
I just tried to go and see your blog to see your school, but your user name is not linked!
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I certainly use my WP.com blogs to promote my classes, I staff specifically approved that. I know they’ve approved Etsy for artists and Amazon for authors. I would expect this is on a case-by-case basis; you can’t use WP.com as a catalogue site, but you can link to where people can buy something if it happens to be something for sale. It is not as restrictive as it was for original artists.
Getting paid advertisement for stuff you yourself do not create is a separate, and very different, issue.
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Thanks for your replies guys . . . . I will check out the feature mentioned by SUNNISEME – the only reason I do not like the WP ads I see on my WP blog is because it disturbs my blog format that <b>I</b> spend my time trying to keep nice . . . . . it might be nice to add ads and make a few pennies – but I am not sure that I would do it if it meant turning off readers . . . and I would want control over where they`re put (dont mind so much if they are right at the bottom, btw . . . take care all ! :-)
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