Can I run ads on my blog?

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  chiredesign · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 7:49 pm

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  I would like to start running ads on my blog from paid “sponsors” as well as run sponsored posts and product reviews. Is this allowed if my site is hosted by a third party such as GoDaddy?

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  timethief · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 7:50 pm

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  No

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  timethief · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 7:51 pm

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  Is this allowed if my site is hosted by a third party such as GoDaddy?

  yes

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  timethief · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 7:51 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/

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  chiredesign · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 7:58 pm

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  timethief – thank you for the quick response! Please excuse my total ignorance on this stuff but if I do hire a web host and transfer by domain will I lose all of my content? Basically, will I have to rebuild my blog and start all over again?

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  timethief · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 8:05 pm

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  No content is lost. You hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up a WordPress.org install. Then you export your content out of the WordPress.com site and import it into the WordPress.org site.

  Export Your Website’s Content

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  chiredesign · Member · Sep 5, 2013 at 12:54 am

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  Fantastic. Thank you again for all your help!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 6, 2013 at 10:05 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)