mystery ad on my blog
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I visited my blog this morning and there was a video ad on my latest blog post. This is quite disturbing. This is not something enabled, want and is especially troublesome since I am not getting paid for these ads being posted. Can anyone tell me what is going on?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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To support the service (and keep free features free), we sometimes run advertisements, and the agreement for this has been in our terms of service since 2006.
We try hard to only run them in limited places. If you would like to completely eliminate ads from appearing on your blog, we offer the No-Ads Upgrade: http://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/
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Of course, this is buried in “terms of service.” Other blog posts do not do this. Ads are something that you allow and are compensated for. This is not a free service you are offering. There are tons of fee-based add-ons that come with using WordPress. We are providing content for you and the base that drives people to your products and services for which you charge a fee.
I have also seen several other blogs based on WordPress, none of which have ever sported ads.
I am sure that if ads continue to appear on my blog without me being compensated, the people whose ads appear there will not like what I have to say about them. I hope the ad will be removed from my blog soon.
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I have also seen several other blogs based on WordPress, none of which have ever sported ads.
Either those are WordPress.com blogs with the No-Ads upgrade, or they merely run on WordPress software but are not hosted by WordPress.com (and as such, can run their own ads or no ads at all).
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continue to appear on my blog without me being compensated,
Your ARE being compensated – your base blog is free to you – you don’t pay for it – the other costs you mention are for specific upgrade options – such as domain mapping (not hosting) – they are not for the hosting which is still free – I do pay for my hosting here in that I have the no ads upgrade – so I compensate WordPress.COM for the potential loss of revenue by their ads not being allowed on my site.
WordPress.COM needs to pay the bills somehow – do you have another suggestion on how they pay the bills if they don’t directly charge you?
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I am having the same problem with an offensive Utube ad running on all my posts that I noticed today. Is it better to purchase the blog name with no wordpress in the name such as myblog.com vs. myblog.wordpress.com? Or is the only way to avoid this to purchase the no-ad ad on?
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WordPress has several revenue streams. They do charge. There is a whole laundry list of charges. And this is not free. There are some points at which WordPress chooses not to levy the fees, and sources from which they choose not to extract them, but it is not a strange mystery where they get their money. It is many places. You don’t need to look too far to see this.
They have many ideas and they use them. Other providers do as well and do not put ads where they are not wanted, especially without matching ads with content. They know better–for all of their clients. And other hosts, when bloggers do consent to have ads on their space, are compensated for having ads on their blog.
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@annyungmeyer: Please follow the instructions here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/inappropriate-ads-appearing-on-blog?replies=16#post-672582@theclarencewhiteblog: If not being compensated for ads that appear on your blog is a dealbreaker for you, then I have some friendly suggestions for you:
– you can apply for the AdControl program if you have 25,000+ visits per month; ad revenue would be split between you and WP.com:
– you could consider another hosting provider that not only lets you put ads on your blog but be paid for them. -
I checked out the other posts, thanks. May I ask again – if I purchase my own address at annyungmeyer.com for 17.95 per year, will I still be subject to ads appearing randomly on my blog?
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I checked out the other posts, thanks. May I ask again – if I purchase my own address at annyungmeyer.com for 17.95 per year, will I still be subject to ads appearing randomly on my blog?
Yes – you would still need the No Ads upgrade to remove ads. The $ 17– only covers the domain name registration and mapping your new domain name to your base blog.
I have domain mapping and still need to have the No Ads Upgrade to keep their ads off my blog – given my old host costs I look on the cost as a great deal for what I get (WordPress.COM takes care of software updates among other things)
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Ok, thanks. I didn’t mind a couple of random ads if they match content and this is not a revenue generator, but weird Utube videos are not acceptable. I did not get a page picture but now facebook ads for free ipods are appearing. I would think WordPress.com would do better to match content and keep it infrequent.
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WordPress.COM has been trying different ways to do ads – from what I see in the forum some are sort of bad or obnoxious – the best advice is to take a screen shot of the offending ad and save it in your Media Library then pitch a complaint to the staff. They do seem capable of correcting some of the ads or sending some of the ad producers down the road.
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WordPress.com has been running advertising on our free hosted blogs since 2006. Many bloggers do not know this because despite the fact they ticked the box required to get a free blog, they did not read the ToS. Many also do not read features page, or advertising entry in the support documents after registering their username and blog(s). Also note that as the ads do not display to us when we are logged in, and as many use browsers with ad blockers when logged out, they may not realize they are there at all. The only way to get rid of all advertising on our free hosted WordPress.com blogs is to purchase an annually renewable No-Ads upgrade.
If you find ads on your blog that are inappropriate you can take a screenshot and send it to Staff support@wordpress.com
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As someone who switched to WP.com (ads) from WP.org,(no ads or compensated ads) I just want to point out one thing of which you may be blissfully unaware. One of the things you get from WP.com free of charge is excellent security. i.e. you don’t have to worry about some !@#$&^ hacking your site and destroying months and months (or maybe years) of hard work. With WP.org –which is all open source-(read “open season” for hackers)… you DO. Also, unless you really know what you’re doing it is very, very hard to clean up your site once you are hacked and paying someone else to do it is expensive.
Perhaps this isn’t motivation enough for you to put up with a few annoying (I fully agree) ads. If that is the case, then it is dirt cheap to find a web host for a WP.org site and you should definitely consider it…Just remember what you’re giving up. The costs are not all that’s hidden on WordPress.com; a lot of “perks” are, too.
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Also, unless you really know what you’re doing it is very, very hard to clean up your site once you are hacked and paying someone else to do it is expensive.
I made a boat load of money cleaning up the last big round of PHP injections that hit several of the major web hosts.
That said, I don’t thing the percentage of wordpress sites that get hacked is very high. The most important thing when self-hosting is to keep up with updates on wordpress core, themes and plugins, and be very, very careful about where you get those things and very careful about where you get any code that you put into your site (javascript, flash, etc.). Some purposely put backdoors into stuff, and some put them in without knowing it simply because they don’t have enough experience.
On a self-hosted site the thing to remember is that it is ALL on you. The installations, the updates, the backups and the troubleshooting, and having to sort through the rubble after hurricane cracker has been through your site can be very discouraging.
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“Blissfully unaware?” Most of us, in this age, are no more blissfully unaware of the things that don’t go wrong with our sites than we are of the water that comes into our homes. That we get this services is something that, from time to time, we will take for granted, but it is an appropriate expectation that we will have these things, bliss or no bliss.
At the very least, these ads could go somewhere other than the body of our own message. At the very least. It is an intrusion as unwelcome as a hack.
i see a lot of cheer leading for WordPress, here. It’s odd, almost chauvinistic. Really, all of us do a lot of work providing content for WordPress–the product. WE do the work. We drive people to their site. WE buy the products from them. And other hosts do compensate their bloggers (not much) when they consent to having ads on their blog. And we have already paid a cost of committing our content to this site. Switching all this content is not easy. They have it. We can move it, but they’ve “got” us.
You can point to things that they do right or well. These fit with expectations of any hosting site. It does not make it appropriate to add ads or any other content to our posts. Even if the fine print indicates their decision to do this. (And, it should be said, that navigating the features of WordPress itself is not all that easy.)
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ALL service purchase decisions, even non-monetized ones, involve a tradeoff. It’s up to you to do your research and decide what works for you or doesn’t.
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This might just be the end of the road for me. No wonder WordPress is pushing the ‘Start New Blog’ shit and trying to prevent you accessing your dashboard without dicking around for 5 minutes. Blatant.
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