mystery ad on my blog
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@infx- as mentioned above there have been ads running on WordPress.com blogs since 2006, so this is not news. If not acceptable to you, you have the option of opting out by purchasing the No-Ads upgrade.
If you’d rather run your own ads, (good luck earning money with that) you can move off to being self-hosted, and WordPress.com will even help you move there if you’re interested.
Either way, cheers!
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RE: WordPress.org hacks..My WordPress.org site was hacked, which is why I am so familiar with the difficulties one faces when that happens. And, just for the record, I did everything by the book…Updated wordpress, my theme, my plug-ins etc every day and sometimes more than once a day. It was a pain in the butt but I thought it would keep my site safe. It didn’t.
Since I didn’t have a boatload of bucks to pay out to get it fixed I was more or less forced to take it down. Not a happy day for me, I assure you.
With that said, however, I’m considering going back to .org because of the many restrictions on WP.com..such as only being able to run “approved” java script, and the limited number of free themes available. There’s a down side and an upside to both. People just need to know what they are. -
How much do you expect to be reimbursed in a shared ad program with WordPress? Maybe… $0.58 / month? Probably a little less? But only, of course, if you can keep your readership numbers up at all times.
Raincoaster has a three-million hit blog, ask her how many cars Google AdSense didn’t buy her.
WordPress has ad revenue because they’re putting ads on millions of blogs, you’ll never make more than a bag of chips living off the avails of one blog.
Put a statement on your blog about the ads belonging to WordPress, not you, and people should not click them.
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Here’s an example of a notice that can be placed in a text widget in your sidebar.
Advertising
Please note that any advertisements that you see on this blog are placed here by WordPress.com. The Administrators of this blog have no connection to or financial interest in any of the promoted products and/or services and gain no income from any advertising displayed on this blog. -
The point isn’t to see how much money WE can get out of WordPress. I hope it is understood that most of us are not looking for any compensation, but rather for integrity of in what is displayed in our posts.
In addition, disclaimers or not, the message of the ad is there and conflicts and competes with the message of the blog. This is especially problematic since most ads work via the subconscious, not in disclaimer.
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So do yourself a favor and protect your visitors from being exposed to ads you do not approve of or gain income form – purchase the No-Ads upgrade.
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I am beginning to think that some of the people posting here are working for WordPress. Instead of paying people to advertise on their blogs, are they paying people to comment and sell product?
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@theclarencwhiteblog: That’s quite an assumption you are making. The only people working for WordPress.com are those that have a grey frame and that are clearly marked “Staff”, “Happiness Engineer”, etc., as opposed to “Member” or “Moderator”.
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Many of the volunteers in this thread have had no problem over the years letting WordPress know where and when they’ve been wrong, including over advertising, and in a bigger font than you’re using.
You’ve been given all of the options available on WordPress with regards to advertising:
1. Live with it
2. Live with it, but with a disclaimer
3. Buy the upgrade
4. Move onI don’t like it either. I run a blog about mental illness, and people have seen ads for Scientology on it. But you have to choose one.
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By definition, everyone here has chosen WordPress.com. You’re going to find people who support WordPress.com as the best choice here. If you want to find people who don’t, it’s probably most productive to search on other platforms, no?
I have had over four million hits on my blog and even though the adsense account connected with it is ALSO running on an external blog, I have yet to make sixty dollars. That’s an average of less than ten dollars a month for hits of 30,000 a month and more. Hosting costs ten bucks a month and up. You do the math.
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I found two buttons (“download” and “play now”) on one of my posts, but thought they were the result of a hack. But are they? If they were legitimate ads surely there would be more information sorrounding them?
See en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/mystery-ad-on-my-blog?replies=30 -
They are definitely ads, but that sounds a bit shady. Would you please send a screenshot to [email protected] ?
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I think someone had a “click here or die” ad link on their site recently – worse than shady
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I have seen ads like the one described above. I’m now on week 3 or is it 4 running without AdBlock — what an eye-opening experience this has been. :(
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Thanks macmanx, I have now posted a copy of the screen shot to support@wordpress, com as requested, along with the text of the links within them
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Part of the problem is that some ads are clearly labelled ‘advertisement’ (such as the Ecopressed ones) but the obnoxious flashing ones generally aren’t. No wonder people assume they’ve been hacked.
Since some ad providers evidently can’t be trusted to label their advertisements as such it might be a good idea if wordpress.com did it for them.
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It depends what you mean by ‘better’. Like it or not, I imagine that clickthrough rates are rather better on videos and annoying flashing images than on ‘discreet text ads’. Plus, the more irritating the ads, the more no-ad upgrades they’ll sell to get rid of them. We’ve had a few people here already saying that they don’t object to ads per se, but have been forced into buying the upgrade because they’re running family-orientated blogs and can’t risk displaying some of the dodgier material that’s been showing up.
I just hope that the Federated Media deal will improve the situation, but I have a nasty feeling that those ads will end up only being served to US viewers while the rest of the world continues to get fed the icky stuff.
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