Making Money From WordPress

smansa2007 · Member · Nov 25, 2008 at 4:53 am
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WHat’s The Tricks?
fracas · Member · Nov 25, 2008 at 4:56 am
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WP.com blogs are not allowed to monetize. You are allowed a donation button. Check the FAQ section for more about it.
panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 25, 2008 at 4:59 am
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Which means that “the tricks” amounts to getting your blog suspended.
raincoaster · Member · Nov 25, 2008 at 5:08 am
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Which doesn’t mean you can’t make a career based on your WP.com blog, it just means you can’t do it directly. I use my blog as cred and now I charge several hundred dollars an hour as a social media consultant. And by god, my blog is NOT businesslike!
smansa2007 · Member · Nov 25, 2008 at 6:14 am
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hahhaha…. thanks
sensuouscurmudgeon · Member · Nov 25, 2008 at 11:49 am
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WHat’s The Tricks?

Send me all your money, and I’ll teach you a few tricks about making money while blogging.
omarmodesto · Member · Nov 25, 2008 at 6:41 pm
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Send me all your money, and I’ll teach you a few tricks about making money while blogging.

That’s a good trick!
raincoaster · Member · Nov 26, 2008 at 1:31 am
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See, if I’d been smart enough to think of that, I’d charge FOUR figures per hour!
pornstarbabylon · Member · Nov 26, 2008 at 7:55 am
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Do you have the traffic yet to justify looking into ways to making money?
panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 26, 2008 at 8:45 am
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@pornstarbabylon: Good point! Like it is with most people who bug us about adsense, 272 hits, 9 posts, 0-6 comments…

And a link to this: http://www.surfjunky.com/?r=smansa2007 (Wonder if that’s within the TOS.)
fracas · Member · Nov 26, 2008 at 8:48 am
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As I understand the TOS, your surfjunky link wouldn’t be allowed. Because you potentially earn money based on the click-throughs from your link, it wouldn’t be allowed.
edenchanges · Member · Nov 26, 2008 at 10:22 pm
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How about a link to a Tipit account or to simply a notice about Paypal donations being allowed? – would that be allowed?

The last thing I want is my blog to get closed! :)
rosclarke · Member · Nov 26, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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Paypal buttons are certainly allowed. I don’t know what Tipit is or how it works, but if it’s a similar principle to a Paypal account, it’s probably fine. If in doubt you could always contact support directly just be to sure.
pornstarbabylon · Member · Nov 27, 2008 at 2:20 am
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Many people think they can make a lots of money from Adsense. But you only start seeing some money if you get thousands of hits a day. You’ll do better by seeking out certain individual sponsors which tend to pay more than Adsense click ads.

I don’t know if self-hosted sites work on this site but run your blogs here to see what your demographics are. http://www.quantcast.com/ I think your blog has to be active for a couple of months before the statistics start showing. If you seek out sponsors, this tool will do well because you can tell the sponsor exactly what your demographic is. I have the ideal demographic, men aged 18-34. That’s what sponsors look for. But I don’t have that much traffic to even start thinking what the next step will be, move elsewhere or stay here and hope ads will be allowed in the future.

The last thing I want is my blog to get closed! :)

Best thing to do is contact support. I’m not sure if it’s still allowed but I believe Amazon links on a blog with original content is allowed.

AdSense and other ads

http://wordpress.com/vip-hosting/

Why are there ads on my blog? / About the Ad-Free Upgrade

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