No, you can’t monetize your WordPress.com blog!

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  arifsali · Member · Nov 30, 2008 at 9:24 pm

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  I have two Belkins, wireless router and skype phone, I have yet to call and I guess I won’t now.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 1, 2008 at 4:07 am

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  I’ve seen worse. I’ve seen a Help file that was a Flash presentation…but it was a Help file for a Flash video application, and if you couldn’t run the video application you couldn’t read the Help file…

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 1, 2008 at 8:26 am

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  Our cable provider added insult to injury by telling us that we could learn how to sync our cable remote with our TV by watching the short video on cable channel 1. But we couldn’t get to cable channel 1 without subscribing to it first. (8$ a month)

  You could light it up with 72pt bold, blinking text and some people will still ask first rather than looking in the faqs and forum because that’s just the way they are.

  (And I’m still explaining to my local WP.COM buddies that WP.COM already runs adsense on our blogs.)

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  gemznbeadz · Member · Dec 8, 2008 at 10:47 am

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  Okay. I’m confused. I did read the TOS when i signed up, which said that advertising wasn’t accepted currently but might be in the future. I sent an e-mail asking when that was likely to be added and never got a reply.

  I didn’t know there was a .org versus a .com so I don’t know what the difference is or how it affects me.

  And now I am especially confused by the last line in the last post:

  “I’m still explaining to my local WP.COM buddies that WP.COM already runs adsense on our blogs”

  Advertising? No advertising?

  Now that I know I can’t monetize my blog with ads or affiliate programs, how do I take the blog I created here with all its content and move it to a service that does allow me to?

  Thanks!

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 8, 2008 at 11:33 am

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  Search the FAQ for “export blog” and you’ll find it quite easy. You’ll need to arrange for webspace to import it into, so look into hosting packages. WordPress.ORG has some threads on finding a good host.

  Bloggers can’t run paid advertising on their blogs at WP.COM. WordPress already runs Adsense on them and those are the only paid ads allowed, and it’s not the bloggers that get paid. When will they change that? There’s an upgrade available now to take Adsense off your blog entirely. When will they let you put paid ads on your WP.com blog? Probably never.

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  gemznbeadz · Member · Dec 8, 2008 at 6:49 pm

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  Thanks for the info, raincoaster.