Are amazon affiliate links allowed on free. subdomain ( .wordpress.com) websites
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WordPress states that you can use your free wordpress.com website with affiliate links. Are amazon links allowed on wordpress. I would like to know whether i can use them before i publish my first post.
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i need to hear from wordpress.com support members or anyone who knows whether it’s good or bad to use amazon links on a free wordpress site
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re: affiliate links see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
We allow affiliate links on WordPress.com, including from Amazon.com, but you will not be able to use the Amazon widget on a WordPress.com site. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/amazon-widget-9?replies=3#post-1882814
Posting of some affiliate links is possible, provided the blog is an actual blog and not just a storefront. Please read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/ closely.
1. WordPress.com allows bloggers to insert text affiliate links within post and page content to most third-party affiliate programs, provided they are not the primary content of the site in question.
2. Image affiliate links in posts and pages and any banners, affiliate links in sidebar or footer widgets, are still considered to be advertising and are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs.
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If you want an affiliate marketing blog then you are in the wrong place. You need hire a web host http://wordpress.ORG/hosting and set up a WordPress.ORG software install.
Povided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide you have two options.
(1) Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/(2) If you set up an Ecommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
Some bloggers create a contact form and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/Otherwise, no blogger initiated advertising is allowed on WordPress.com blogs. The only blogs that can be equipped for ecommerce are those with the $299. per year business upgrade. http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/
The only advertising program at WordPress.com is called WordAds and it’s for blogs on their own domains.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://en.wordpress.com/apply-for-wordads/Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com is not allowed.
http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/ Here’s what gets a blog suspended:
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
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Blogs that consist primarily of pre-written publicity material for the purpose of promoting sites and driving traffic to other promotional and giveaway sites, as opposed to publication of original reviews, are not allowed.
See here please:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/sponsored-posts/
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Thanks a lot for the information, at least i have learned something new.
Another question, when i upgrade my free wordpress blog to a custom domain. will my old blog be redirected to the new site.
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Another question, when i upgrade my free wordpress blog to a custom domain. will my old blog be redirected to the new site.
The content stays exactly where it is. Only the URL changes and anyone clicking the underlying .wordpress.com link anywhere on the internet will be seamlessly redirected to the domain URL.
If you want to purchase domain mapping upgrade then read and act on what follows.
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase upgrades for the blog.
See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/
After you do the primary blog set up it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.
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