Mature content and affiliate links
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Hi there. Is it legal on WordPress.com to add affiliate links to typical sex-shops on a blog with adult content (no porn, but articles concerning sex)? I’ve just read their Support on ‘Mature Content’ and I’m really not sure. Thanks in advance for your help.
Michael.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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For details re: mature content blogs.
A blog that is marked as Mature is excluded from public areas of the WordPress.com service. This means:It is not eligible to be featured in Freshly Pressed on the front page of WordPress.com
It will not appear in global tag listings
It will not appear in Top Blogs listings, recent posts, or related posts listings on other blogs
The blog’s users cannot use that URL as a link in their WordPress.com Forums profile
from http://en.support.wordpress.com/mature-content/See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts
From the TOS http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
Please don’t:
•Post explicit sexual materials that can be considered pornographic, such as explicit images or video of sexual acts or close-up images of genitalia;
•Post links or banner ads to adult-oriented affiliate networks, such as pornography site signups;
•Post links, text, or images promoting or advertising escort services;
•Post images of extreme violence or gore without associated context or commentary;
•Post images of child pornography;
•Post content that promotes pedophilia, such as blogs with galleries of images of children where the images, content surrounding the images, or the intent of the blog is sexually suggestive. -
No blogger initiated advertising is allowed on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. The only advertising program at WordPress.com is called WordAds and it’s for blogs on their own domains.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://en.wordpress.com/apply-for-wordads/Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com is not allowed.
http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/ Here’s what gets a blog suspended:
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/NOTE: A self-hosted WordPress site is what you need. WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, conduct ecommerce and edit the database. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
See: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress
https://move.wordpress.com/ -
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Hi Michal,
TimeThief is right. While you can have a blog on WordPress.com with adult content we don’t allow advertising or affiliate links to pornographic sites. Your best bet would be to get a self-hosted site instead. Alternatively if the goal is to earn revenue from your site then you can apply to join our advertising program – https://wordads.co.
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Hi Rachel,
Thanks for your response. Wordads could be nice diversification from AdSense and it’s worth considering :)
Anyway, due to your Support site: “We have a feature called WordAds that lets WordPress.com bloggers with moderate to high traffic and appropriate content turn on ads (…)” Would mature content be “appropriate” (and I’m almost sure it’s not) and what does it exactly mean “moderate traffic” (based on hits I suppose).
Thanks again,
Best regards,
Michal -
Hi Michal,
Would mature content be “appropriate”
It’s hard to say for sure without seeing the site. I can’t see any content here – https://antygazeta.wordpress.com – but if you’ve got an example online then I could check with the WordAds team.
and what does it exactly mean “moderate traffic” (based on hits I suppose).
Yes, this is based on views per month. There isn’t a golden number you would have to reach because it depends a bit on the type of traffic. But we have some good tips on how to boost your traffic here:
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Hi Rachel,
Alrighty then ;) It looks like it would be a pretty good idea to add few typical posts (on the next blog on my account, the one with more appropriate title) and then I’ll apply for WordAds team approval.
Thank you so much :)
Best regards,
Michal
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