Getting more traffic to my blog – is Google Adwords allowed?
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I am considering using Google Adwords to help get more traffic to my blog once I have it properly setup and have sufficient quality content. I am wondering whether or not Google Adwords is allowed to be used to help drive traffic to my blog. Under “Pay for traffic to your site”, this page mentions that “StumbleUpon” can be used to bring visitors to a blogs posts: http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/. It seems it would also be ok to use Google Adwords for the same purpose. Would I be correct in this assumption? (note that I am not planning to put any advertising services on my blog or run any ads on my blog as I understand this would violate the wordpress policy on advertising – http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/)
Blog url: http://simoz99.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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What you do off your WP.com site is not bound by the terms of service here. You can do what you like.
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Thanks raincoaster. I’m new to wordpress. It may have seemed like a silly question to ask.
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There are no silly questions. What’s silly is what we see sometimes. “I’ve been struggling on my own for months and now I’m so frustrated I QUIT.” That’s silly.
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I am wondering whether or not Google Adwords is allowed to be used to help drive traffic to my blog.
I don’t know why anyone would think that advertising results in more blog traffic. The doesn’t make sense to me as I know that almost every blogger I’m in touch with runs an AdBlocker on their browser.
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