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  rachelmaris · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 3:44 am

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  Hi there, I have just made a google Adsense account and they want me to copy and paste this huge code in the HTmL source…. I don’t no what that is or where to find it, please help

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 3:51 am

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  User advertising is, except for a couple very narrow exceptions, not allowed on wordpress.COM. For the exceptions, see the last sentence under “Affiliate marketing blogs” in the bottom set of bullet points in the “types of blogs” link below.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/

  There is a new WordAd feature here at wordpress.com for sites that qualify. It does not allow you to pick or place your own ads though.

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  rachelmaris · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 3:58 am

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  But Adsense sent me an email saying its all been approved n such, I just have to put this code in the HTML source?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 4:30 am

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  It doesn’t matter what adsense told you. If you put the code in here, it will be stripped out at the very least, and at the worst, your site would be suspended. You cannot use adsense on a wordpress.com site. You can only use WordAds, if you are approved for that program.

  If you want to advertise you will have to self-host a wordpress site on a third-party hosting service such as godaddy, bluehost, etc., using the software from http://wordpress.ORG/ . Figure an average monthly cost, all things considered of $10 to $25 and few bloggers actually cover their expenses via ad revenue.

  If you are not familiar with the differences between wordpress.COM and self-hosted wordpress.ORG sites, see this support document.