Any News on Showing Ads on Blogs?
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I keep seeing that WordPress.com users will soon be able to show ads on their blogs. Any idea when this might be coming? I love WordPress, but don’t really have a need to do my own hosting and domain just to show ads, but let’s face it…making a little side money each month for blogging would be a nice bonus.
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I don’t know where you’re seeing that; I certainly haven’t seen any information along those lines from anything I’d consider to be a well-informed source.
Most blogs with adsense, btw, make less than $100 per year.
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It’s on the WordPress Free Features page. I’d consider WordPress itself to be a reliable source about their own features. Considering I’m making nothing, that’s $100 I didn’t have for only a few minutes of setup. Here’s the quote “To support the service we may occasionally show Google text ads on your blog, however we do this very rarely. You can remove ads from your blog for a low yearly fee. In the future you’ll be able to show your own ads and make money from your blog.”
You can find it in the Advertising section on the bottom of this page: http://en.wordpress.com/features/ -
Thanks. Yes, they’ve had something like that for the last couple of years, which gives you some idea of the timeline. So I wouldn’t expect that any time soon; I emailed staff specifically about this around two months ago and got a firm “no, and there’s nothing in the pipeline about that as far as I’m aware. And if there was, I’d know about it.”
So, consider it vapourware until proven otherwise.
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I have a google blog which really gets around 100+ page impressions everyday….They love the content which i have and i am already prepared with more stuff to upload ..just because you know how good is wordpress in formatting even i was lured ………but after i format most of my posts in wordpress i learn that there cannnot be ads on the blogs and this is a serious set back for me.I am wondering what to do…!! now I am thinking to start a website rather than a blog now…but my real plan was that after I start getting 1000 page views i would have started a website..
Suggestions please ….The contnt on the blog is technical….
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Do you people know if there is out there any other kind of advertising system we could use on our wordpress.com pages?
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Do you people know if there is out there any other kind of advertising system we could use on our wordpress.com pages?
You mean along the lines of “do nothing – get massive amounts of money”? Sorry, no. Massive amounts of money require massive amounts of work. There are no shortcuts.
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You can use all kinds of them; they will all get your blog suspended at the current time.
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is their anything wrong with making money off affiliates? – not that I am making any money, but if i link to an item as something to be purchased, some of the items, I am using an affiliate ID.
Hope that is ok…because if I recommend something and someone buys it, I want my commission!…haha
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is their anything wrong with making money off affiliates? – not that I am making any money, but if i link to an item as something to be purchased, some of the items, I am using an affiliate ID.
Wrong? Philosophically, probably not. Ethically, probably yes, unless there’s a prominent disclaimer about what happens after the click. Against the ToS? Read it for yourself.
Just curious – you say you’re not making money but want your commission. Which is it? And if you’re not making a penny, if there’s nothing in it for you, why would you use an affiliate link?
Or did you mean you haven’t made any money YET from affiliate links?
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whats in it for me? I mean its business. I work for a company here, we play streaming audio and HD radio. If a user selects to buy the song from iTunes(we choose to link and support apple instead of say zune), then we get some commission for promoting Apple. Apple is happy because we are sending our listeners to them, and we are happy because Apple is providing us incentives to continue to do that.
I am not biased with what I promote on my site and I’m completely honest, my users know if they select on an image, it will take them to the store where they can purchase that item. But if i’m drawn to certain stores, and I send my users to them and indirectly promote those stores, then there is nothing wrong with the stores/business then saying “thank you” and wanting to provide me with further incentives by sending me something (actually I would much prefer the favor returned in discounts, but this works the same.)
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You really can’t make any money from Google ads unless you get several thousand unique hits a day. If you can find sponsors and if you have the traffic and demographics they want, you generally make more from sponsors than from Google ads.
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“Wrong? Philosophically, probably not. Ethically, probably yes, unless there’s a prominent disclaimer about what happens after the click. Against the ToS? Read it for yourself.”
So are you saying that WordPress cannot be used to make money with affiliate links?
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@ moniescloset , right now, advertising and affiliate programs are not allowed here. It is as simple as that. Perhaps at some point in the future, there will be some sort of program for blogger initiated advertising, but we do not have it right now, and if thing go as I suspect, it will be a paid upgrade which means that you will have to subtract the cost of the upgrade from anything that you make off of advertising. And based on the cost of the “no-ad” upgrade, the cost of the ad program will probably be something similar: $30US per year. The program is also likely to be limited to a few choices, and not wide open since wordpress is very security conscious and will want control over the script used for the advertising.
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The above of course is simply conjecture on my part. I have no real idea what the ad program (if it comes to pass) will look like or what it will cost.
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@tsp
Affiliate links are not 100% of limits. Quoting from http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon
is allowed, albeit there is a clear distinction here between a blog product reviews with (discrete) links and a blatant promotion with your blog looking like a store. -
I’m pretty sure we don’t have the control here or access to have our blogs look or behave like a store. We certainly can’t edit PHP and setup checkout services or paypal, so I’m not really sure what the problem is?
I can’t imagine there is anything wrong with linking to items you’ve purchased or would purchase, organizing that information for the user, and directing them to the store were they can then buy the item for that store if they choose to. (clothing in my case).
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@bammer-no, what we are saying is that WordPress.COM cannot be used to make money with affiliate links.
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