Can wordpress.com be used for commercial reasons
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I am new to WordPress so please forgive the question if it is very basic….
I am currently ‘parking’ a domain name with a well known web hosting company (won’t mention the name), but this domain name is currently not associated with any particular site.
In speaking to their customer support today, they strongly advised me to use wordpress.org instead of wordpress.com if my purpose has any commercial intent.
I can mention that the blog that I intend to create will eventually be used in conjunction with my business site, to help to drive business traffic, but the blog itself will not have prices or anything like that on it.
After reading description about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, the information provided by this company seems to be false.
As far as I can tell, the main differences between the two is that WordPress.com hosts templates that are predefined and not configurable. But there is no real issue with using WordPress.com if it has some commercial linkages to other sites. Can you please comment on this.
Finally, can you please tell me how I get this domain parked web address to point to a WordPress blog that I set up. How might I do this?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It’s very important for you to read the relevant support docs carefully. No blogger initiated advertising is allowed on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. 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/Please also read http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
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 widget areas, are still considered to be advertising and are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs.
Read also:
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/E-commerce options have been removed here at WordPress.COM. Secure payment systems are not available here at wordpress.COM. You need a wordpress.ORG install. Please read this https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/e-commerce-22?replies=17#post-2575955
Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site you have two options.
(1) PayPal – 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/
Note that the PayPal email link is not supported and PayPal customization options are not supported either https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paypal-button-41?replies=12#post-2517229 This is not likely to be changed any time soon, if at all.(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 https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page 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/It’s my opionion a self-hosted WordPress site is what you may need. WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. Unlike wordpress.com, you can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, conduct e-commerce and edit the database. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
We provide support only for wordpress.COM hosted sites. Our support docs do not apply to
(1) local installs of wordpress.ORG software on your own server or
(2) wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting, and we do not provide support for them at wordpress.COM.WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
As you need a site that is not hosted here, if you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
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blog … to help to drive business traffic
Please rake not of this phrase above, “provided they are not the primary content of the site in question.” WordPress.com supports original content blogging. There is no support for sites that are simply created to drive traffic to other commercial sites. Any sites like that are suspended.
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