Selling direct ads on a WordPress.com-hosted blog?

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  ingintems · Member · Feb 21, 2014 at 4:16 am

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  Is it allowed to sell ads on a blog hosted at WordPress.com, one-on-one, directly? The support docs notes that users can’t run ads from ad networks, but if a person wants to pay to have a banner ad manually added to a blog, is that okay?

  This blog sells ads this way:

  http://damontucker.com/about-this-site/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 21, 2014 at 4:36 am

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  That is NOT okay. No blogger-initiated advertising of any kind, whether networks or not, is allowed on non-VIP WordPress.com blogs. And it costs $30,000 a year to get a VIP blog.

  Ads will get your blog suspended.

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  ingintems · Member · Feb 23, 2014 at 7:15 pm

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  The linked blog has been selling ads for years and he’s encouraged people to blog and find advertisers so thats why I ask. He has ads from Hilton hotels and car rentals and local businesses, I think I can find revenue in my small town. I want to do something like him but don’t know how to set up my own blog. Maybe he is not hosted here?

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  ingintems · Member · Feb 24, 2014 at 6:14 pm

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  I think I figured it out, Dreamhost has hosted WordPress and they say I can run ads.

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 24, 2014 at 6:23 pm

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  You sell ads on http://ingintems.wordpress.com/ and your blog will be suspended

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  ingintems · Member · Feb 26, 2014 at 11:44 pm

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  No dont worry. I wont sell ads on my bog here at WordPress.COM. I was just confused because he was.