Google Adsense
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I applied for Google Adsense and got my account approved. While I was referring to earlier posts, It is letting me know that the WP.com account is not set up for google Ads.I tried copying the Ad code into text widget however, it doesn’t work. I’ve aplied for this google Adsense before knowing about this. However, I just wanted to know if an alternative does exist to utilize this service? Is it possible i buy credits from Wp.com? Please let me know.
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Have a read of this article in the FAQ for all you need to know about adsense on wp.com:
Nod to TT for the link. :)
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Wow this looks like a deal breaker. I wasnt thinking of putting adsense on my blog … but not being able to add adsense ever on my blog is a concern.
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hmm… i dont understand …. does that mean all the blogs/websites (other than wordpress.com) which use google adsense are hack-prone?
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In a word, yes. Quite a lot more hackprone than WordPress. But it’s a tradeoff, right? If no ads is a dealbreaker for you and you don’t want to get into the $250 per month VIP program here, then you will have to choose a different blogging option, whether using software from WordPress.org or some other option.
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I think even if someone has the $250 a month, that there’s still no guarantee to get into VIP Hosting. I don’t know. Okay, I’m paranoid. lol
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Agreed. If I had that kind of money to throw around and I wanted to start a blog, I’d download from WordPress.org and find my own hosting, which is exactly what I’m doing for my new Get-Me-The-Heck-Out-Of-Poverty, for-profit blog. The VIP program is kinda sorta weird. $250 a month? No question, they’re going to be great at providing support; I know these guys and they do care about that, but for 3k a year you can find lots of hosts who are obliging. One suspects, one does, that they use it as a “how serious ARE you?” barrier, which is also fair.
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For what it’s worth, I’m really rather surprised that Google Adsense still allows approval of bloggers who have WordPress.com accounts; by now they know quite well that WP.com does not allow Adsense.
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I’m sure I could get that money if I could solicit sponsors on my blog. Blogs on my blogroll with less traffic than me make major money. And I have a higher page rank than any of them and I read sponsors pay big to sites that have a highpage rank. Eh.
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Hmmm …agreed its a tradeoff ….. my blog is a month old so it isnt a big deal for me. However, I just hope they find a secure way of adding google adsense or other sponsors to the blog in future, that would make everything much more cooler.
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The issue with the VIP program is that if you were in the program, you would be (or should be) at the level of traffic that you would be running your site on it’s own server. For that money, you’ve got someone else doign all of the backups and whatnot plus thte fallback of the other datacenters if something goes wrong.
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Are there plans to introduce Javascript / Adsense compatibility at any point? If Blogger can do it, the idea that WordPress can’t is a little difficult to swallow. In fact, I just checked out what Blogger offers for the first time and there are certainly a few features I would like to see make their way over.
What exactly are the problems with other blog services? I would love to put some Javascript on my site.
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No plans whatsoever, for the security reasons mentioned above. We all share the blogging platform here, so a fatal mistake by one person doesn’t just blow up his blog: it blows up everyone’s. It’s not worth the risk.
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But in the possible future there could be some sort of ad or sponsor thing allowed that isn’t javascript.
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Probably not at WordPress.com, because then the WordPress guys have to monitor all the sites that are being advertised, too, for illegality. It would be a huge pain in the ass for them. I think (although nobody has come out and said it) that they use WordPress.com as a showpiece and to get a well-deserved reputation for building slick, robust, clean, attractive, and easy-to-use blogs. WordPress.com is itself an ad for Automattic.
Within that context, it doesn’t make sense to take on too many headaches. Or to offer free hosting to sites that are for-profit; that’s what paid hosting is for.
Remember, too, that right now there’s Google Adsense on our blogs, we just can’t see it. WordPress.com itself has a monopoly on advertising on WordPress.com blogs: why would they give that up? Not good business sense.
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If Blogger can do it
Blogger can’t do it safely. That’s the issue. Their blogs are open to hijacking and abuse.
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Realistically, how much money do people make from Adsense, Amazon affiliates, etc.? It seems to me that you’d have to be in Technorati’s top one to three thousand blogs to get enough traffic and clicks to make it worthwhile. Frankly, I’m sick of visiting non-WP.com blogs and being bombarded with banners and ads, not to mention Java (which never quite works properly on Macs), Amber Alert and weather tickers, shiny things jumping around, and all this other crud–and don’t get me started on PayPerPost. I’m also tired of people waxing indignant at being unable to scrape a few bucks out of a FREE SERVICE.
It’s as if a lot of people are now just creating blogs to have a vehicle for these ads (nb: I’m leaving scrapers and splogs out of the equation) and throwing in content as an afterthought. I love knowing that I can go to a WP.com blog and at least be spared all that abuse.
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