Gambling related blog

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  scottyboy8 · Member · Apr 17, 2019 at 1:27 pm

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  Hi,

  I am a long time WordPress.org user but have decided to try a new blow using WordPress.com as it’s so easy to write posts using the app.

  However I will be blogging about sports betting and I know that the entire internet hates this industry. I will not be looking to monetize the site in any way. I will not put any affiliate links on the site – I will actually be writing about spotting affiliate links and how to avoid them (a shoddy practice in the sports betting industry but I won’t get into that).

  However I do plan on creating an email list which I may monetize through ebooks or something once it’s large enough.

  Please let me know if I will be able to do this on WordPress.com or should I switch it over to WordPress.org?

  Thanks,
  Scott

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  scottyboy8 · Member · Apr 17, 2019 at 3:42 pm

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  Can anyone give me some insight on this please?

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  scottyboy8 · Member · Apr 18, 2019 at 6:44 am

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  Can a staff please answer this as I need to know before I purchase a plan…

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Apr 18, 2019 at 2:24 pm

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  Hi Scott –

  Thanks for getting in touch. What you’ve described is okay based on our user guidelines.

  Gambling.
  Discussing gambling on your site isn’t a problem. What about operating an online gambling service (including poker)? No dice. Please also be aware that if your site is primarily designed to link to other gambling sites, we consider this spam, and a breach of the user guidelines.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Apr 18, 2019 at 2:28 pm

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  Folks can subscribe to your site through their email or WordPress.com accounts. And using tags on your posts will help grow the site audience through our Reader.

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  scottyboy8 · Member · Apr 18, 2019 at 2:32 pm

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  Thanks for getting back to me Liz. The plan I want to get is Premium.

  So I will be able to have an email capture in the sidebar and in the footer? Will I be able to have an ebook for sale in the sidebar?

  Thanks,
  Scott

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Apr 18, 2019 at 4:27 pm

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  Hi Scott –

  Yep. So, folks can discover your blog organically through the Reader based on the tags they follow there. They can then follow your blog through their WordPress.com account. For folks who do not use WordPress.com, but find your site of interest, they’d be able to follow it through their personal email. To do that, you just have to add the Follow Blog widget.

  There are some other tips to grow your audience available on these pages:

  Increase Your Site’s Traffic

  
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/grow-your-community/

  Yes, you can set the ebook up in your sidebar. An image or text widget could link to a simple payment product form.

  Another helpful tutorial is at learn.wordpress.com and it would be worth your time to look through it. The basic blog/website things are covered to give you a good foundation to start off from.

  Write back if you need anything else.