Advertising – What is allowed and what isn't?
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Hello everyone, hope you’re well and are able to help.
I’ve been offered by an advertising company to promote their products on my WordPress Blog.
Now when it comes to advertising options I’m very new to this, and I know WP has a strict code on advertising on your own blogs. I’ve been reading through the support pages for Affiliation and Advertising, and well they don’t help much and I don’t want to risk advertising in a way that may get my blog banned.
The options the company offered include the following.
– Direct links to games to be featured as content
– Native ads that can customized to your site
– High Impact Site Skins
– 300×250, 728×90, 160×600, 120×600, 300×600
– Video Pre-roll
– Floor Video Ad
– Anchor Ad
– Mobile Formats
– Pushdowns
As I said, I’m very new to the idea of advertising on a blog so I’m not sure what each option relates to and if any of them would even be allowed on WP.
Any help possibly giving me a better idea of what is allowed when advertising and what would be frowned upon by WP, and maybe possibly which of these options may also be allowed.
Many thanks to anyone who can help :)
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ALL of that is banned at WordPress.com. All blogger-initiated advertising is banned here.
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I was looking at the upgrade options and they don’t clearly state if that will allow advertising. For instance the Business or Enterprise upgrades? Even then they seem extremely steep price wise.
I’ve been looking into self-hosting for awhile, but I don’t think I’m technically sound to keep the blog running safe and stable on my own.
It’s quite annoying that I cannot seem to find someone who can explain the difficulty of self-hosting to someone who isn’t sure wof the process.
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There is no upgrade other than the $30,000 a year VIP program that allows exemption from this term of service.
There are thousands of people happy to help you with self-hosted WordPress.org. They are found in the WordPress.org forums, generally speaking. But if you know how to click a button that says UPDATE at least once a week, you can probably handle it. The question has been answered a few hundred times at least in these forums and searching should turn up the details, but it’s not hard.
I will tell you that over 90% of the blogs specifically set up and optimized to bring in revenue via advertising fail to cover their hosting costs. Unless the deal is for a solid dollar amount rather than a percentage I wouldn’t move just for that.
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So basically, not that hard once you figure it out, but not really financially viable unless you either have a second income or if you are not being provided a set amount of funds?
This is actually the best advice I have been given. I’ve asked .org a few times and they tend to use technical jargon that I don’t exactly understand. They never outlined it to be as simple as you’re saying.
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You can also have assisted hosting from places like WP Engine – they do some of the update work for you, but it costs a bit more than if you do all the work yourself at say Blue Host
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An external blog will cost you $120 a year minimum. Factor that, plus a minimum of an hour maintenance time a week, and at least five hours to set up, plus the time to write and post the content, and do social media promotion.
If you are not experienced at the blogging industry you can’t expect to make money your first year. You might, but it doesn’t make sense to become self-employed in an industry with which you are not familiar or experienced. It’s an industry like any other.
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Oh I’m not just now starting the blog, I have been open for over 3 years now and we easily eclipse 1,000 readers daily, if not more.
It’s just a lot of guess work, and as you said, can be quite a risk if I don’t have set dollar amounts in play.
Thanks for all the help though.
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If you have a custom domain you can apply for WordAds here – it’s a revenue sharing program where WordPress.COM splits the ad revenue. That would let you get some income and stay here while you research your options.
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With 1k daily readers, you’re in a very good position to go solo with Wp.org. That’s about where I am, and I’m certainly strongly considering it.
I’m on WordAds at the moment, and my average income is about $25 a month because my ad exposures are low, since my entire demographic runs Adblocker Plus. Apparently with that level of traffic, you can generally expect a higher income. I was told that at 10k daily hits you can support yourself and even hire other people on the income from WordAds.
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Yeah same here, AdBlocker’s certainly come into play. I think on a really good month I’ve made about $40 with WordAds, but that sort of cash is usually put towards Domain fees, usage space and themes.
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Adblocker will still affect you when you’re WP.org, but you have the control and ability to create ads in text widgets that WON’T be screened out by Adblocker, which is what I’m looking at. Things like Adsense and basically all ad networks get screened out. Simple image and link ads don’t.
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