Do I have a hosted site now??
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I have created a wordpress blog to promote my green business. I understand that I could not place links to my business website unless I got a hosted site with a wordpress partner. I purchased the domain and hosting from go daddy. Am I in the clear now? Can I put links to my green business on my blog? If not, what do I still have to do?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Blogs which exist primarily to drive traffic to off-wp.com sites are against the ToS and will be suspended.
The blog linked to your name is at WP.com. As for the other site, what you do on Godaddy is up to you and independent of the ToS here.
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I am so confused. I’m not trying to drive traffic to my other site. I’m a mommy blogger and yes, I sell Shaklee products. My domain name is greennoblemamas.com and that is currently linked to my wordpress site. I blog about going green and working from home. I’d like to list my site in My Other Wiebsites and if I use a great product to help my child sleep better or a vitamin C I think is great – I can’t link to these?? I see blogs all the time doing this. I’m trying to follow the rules but I don’t get it. Would I still be “wrong” to name the company I use? My goal is to have traffic on my wordpress blog. If someone wants to know what I use, I want them to be able to click to find out.
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Here are the relevant section of the TOS and the support documentation to take note of.
See TOS section 2, 5th bullet – wordpress.com blogs cannot be used to drive traffic to third party sites and that is what advertising does.
http://wordpress.com/tos/Blogger initiated adverstising is not allowed on wordpress.COM blogs.
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
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If you are in any doubt, then please contact support for clarification. http://support.wordpress.com/contact
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Let’s keep things simple. Give us the URL of the blog you intend to blog on. Then we can tell you if the WordPress Terms of Service apply to it or not.
They DO apply to http://greennoblemamas.wordpress.com/
They do NOT apply to anything hosted at Godaddy.
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Isn’t this wordpress site doing exactly what greennoble talking about? http://dagmarbleasdale.com/
What is Dagmar Bleasdale doing that allows her to advertise and get paid to advertise other companies on her site??
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This explains the differences between wordpress.COM hosted blogs and self-hosted blogs using the software from wordpress.ORG: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ .
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