Upgrade allows ads?

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  smn216 · Member · Nov 12, 2012 at 3:40 pm

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  If you upgrade by paying the $30 on wordpress.com are you allowed to place adsense ads in your blog? Also, can you remove the ads which are placed on the free blogs on your upgrade?

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  smn216 · Member · Nov 12, 2012 at 3:46 pm

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  i have read on the terms @ conditions that no ads are allowed on wordpress.com I was wondering if i upgraded, if that would allow me to place ads on my blog. Or is this rule universal? Applying both to the free blogs as well as the upgraded ones.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 12, 2012 at 3:46 pm

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  There is no upgrade you can purchase that allows blogger initiated advertising – period.

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  smn216 · Member · Nov 12, 2012 at 3:47 pm

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  what if i changed the css? i know css so was wondering of placing ads there.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 12, 2012 at 3:49 pm

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  There is only one advertising program called WordAds at WordPress.com and it’s for blogs on their own domains. Aside from a blog being accepted into WordAds http://www.wordads.co/ no blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work or products created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed on free hosted wordpress.com blogs. E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on free blogs from and being free hosted by WordPress.com. Paid content and/or sponsored content is not allowed.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  There is no upgrade you can purchase from WordPress.com that changes any of that. If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising, affiliate links, paid or sponsored content you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org
  Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 12, 2012 at 3:52 pm

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  @smn216
  I stand by what I stated. You cannot use CSS for anything except changing appearance on a WordPress.com blog.
  Read:
  Custom Design – Frequently Asked Questions http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
  Domain Mapping – Important Notes Before Upgrading

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