How do ads work for wordpress.com blogs?
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Please don’t be fooled by the generic title and redirect me to a FAQ. I’m asking the question in terms of how it pertains my blog and what I’m experiencing with it currently.
Right now, on my blog, when I view it without being logged in, I notice ads that really stand out in a bad place on the blog and interfere with the post (they’re not just off to the side outside of the posting area, they’re actually right between the post and the comment box, so you actually have to skip over the ads to get to comment box). From what I understand these ads show up to people without a wordpress account, and you can pay for a no ads upgrade on your page. Is this correct? It is also my understanding that despite creating the blog content myself, and paying for the CSS upgrade, and the ads appearing on my blog, I don’t get a cut of the ad revenue from my blog. How is this fair?
Which brings me to my next question, how do I get ads that I actually get money from on my page? Blogger has this for all free blogs as I understand it, so I just assumed wordpress would be the same. No?
A third question not entirely related to ads. If I want to remove the “wordpress” name from my blog URL, can I just pay for the URL, but still host my blog on wordpress.com? I know wordpress.org gives you your own URL name without wordpress, but can I have one while still using wordpress.com? And if I pay for my own URL, do I have to buy the no ads upgrade separate, or does the fact that I’m now paying for my own URL through wordpress and the CSS upgrade mean the no ad thing is included? I mean you would think, paying for both things, creating the content, the ads being on your blog and all, that you’d either get some of the revenue, or the ads wouldn’t be there.
Thanks for your help everyone.
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How is wordpress supposed to pay for all the servers, datacenters, all the support staff, developers and bandwidth that is used by everyone here? The ads and the paid upgrades are what pay for all those things. None of the above is free, wordpress has to pay for all of it. Blogger has a sugar daddy, Google, and google never even notices the load that blogger presents to their servers because it isn’t even a slight blip over their search engine loads. Sure google wants you to put adcents onto blogger blogs. They give you a few pennies while they keep dollars.
Buying your own URL does not change the restrictions. You are still hosted here and have to abide by the restrictions and the ToS. All the domain mapping and domain name does is change the URL that shows up in the browser address bar. That is all. You would still have to buy the no-ads upgrade if you did not want ads to appear on your site.
Once you get tons of traffic, you can see if you qualify for the ad control program here where you get to share the ad profits 50-50 with wordpress.
We have a feature called Ad Control that lets WordPress.com bloggers with a lot of traffic (generally 25,000 pageviews/month or more) and appropriate content turn on AdSense and Skimlinks for their blog and split the resulting revenues 50/50 with us. If you’d like to apply to try Ad Control, please use the form below to send us a message.
From what I’ve heard from a few, it amounts typically to $5 or so per month in revenue to the site owner.
Why don’t you just self-host a blog at somewhere like godaddy, bluehost, etc. You can then pretty much do anything you want (within the ToS of the web host). You can load it up with your own ads and then after a year realize that all those ads aren’t even covering your yearly hosting costs.
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You do know that “puckcircle” is a registered trademark or copyrighted? (can’t remember which) and that “puckcircle.com” is already registered as a domain name – however it is for sale if you have enough money.
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