Getting paid for blogging
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I would like to show ads on my blog so that I can begin getting paid for my time. How do I go about adding ads to my site?
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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/
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P.S. If you aim to make some pocket change from blogging then for self-hosting a WordPress.org install figure an average monthly total cost (including cost of a domain name) of about $10 to $25 generally, but that all depends on storage and bandwidth requirements.
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PS-PS – any advertiser will want to see lots of traffic before they buy ads anywhere – other ad systems will put their ads on sites even if the site is low traffic – but the amount you get is very very small per page view / visitor that with low traffic you might take over a year to get enough credit built up to get a check
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@timethief I just read this post because I was curious about something similar. If I understand correctly, WP basically doesn’t allow any advertising at all… this includes the amazon affiliate program? (which isn’t really advertising per say?)
I’m a bit confused. I had to pay for my theme so it seems strange that I wouldn’t be allowed to advertise, somehow, at all… seems counter productive, if you are saying that the Free WP templates can host their own ads somehow…?
I’m considering getting off of WP if that’s the case, because right now my blog is only costing me money, and I am putting in a lot of time… I enjoy it, its a hobby, but there are incentives to join other blogging platforms !
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If I understand correctly, WP basically doesn’t allow any advertising at all.
I repeat from above:
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.
I had to pay for my theme
http://easyhealthyvegan.wordpress.com/ is a free hosted WordPress.com blog wearing a free theme called Fruit Shake.
That begs the question: What is the URL of the blog you are referring to please?
Saying that affiliate program links are not advertising links is nonsensical, of course they are advertising links enticing potential customers to buy something, and the blogger using them on their blog is getting paid a small kickback from them when sales are made. http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
The only exception to the no affiliate marketing blogs and links polices is found in Types of Blogs not allowed policy and is depicted in italics below :
Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. Here is a thread in the support forums that talks more about which affiliate links are OK or not OK. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
Hope this straightens things out for you.
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