Using adsense in the blog post
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Hi
I noticed that the adsense script doesn’t work. Is this because I have the free version?
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Been discussed *MANY* times in the past as well as covered in the FAQ. Please click through the Adsense tag you assigned to this thread to read up on it. (ie It’s a JavaScript and they are striped due to security reasons.)
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Friendly reminder that user-added plugins are not allowed here due to security concerns and because the plugin directory is shared amound all users.
Please take a few minutes and read the FAQ blog as well as the FAQ at the head of these forums. They are full of information that will help you learn about the site and the software that we run here. It is different from the standard WordPress software one uses to run a blog hostyed elsewhere.
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Worth warning again, since people tend to be pretty bad at following links and reading FAQs in their entirety: ads of any form are BANNED. If an admin sees them, you’ll get a nasty email if you’re lucky, your blog ripped down without warning if you aren’t. Nobody is going to let you run ads here until such time as they can take a cut of the profits ;)
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I am not trying to be rude or anything, an yes I read the FAQ before, and I also know these blogs are free. But I find it kind of stupid that we can’t put some type of non java script ads on our blogs.
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@wank
You most definately have a right to express your opinions. But I can’t see how (1) shouting BANNED and (2) presuming that the composition of any email sent by staff will be “nasty” or (3) stating a blog will be “ripped down without warning”, or (4) implying that a cut of would be advertising profits would be expected is in any way helpful.
Sheesh I guess you could say that the tenor and tone of your remarks gave rise to very uncomfortable feelings within me. Obviously, no one here on WordPress is blogging for the money. And we aren’t blogging just to criticize those who provide us with this free service either. We are blogging for pleasure of it, right? But you don’t sound like you’re having a good time and that makes me sad. :( -
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tt: I have a couple of issues with how the advertising ban has been handled, it’s true. I asked an innocent question about whether nonjavascript ads were allowed, the thread got slammed shut without ceremony. People have mentioned on other threads that the emails telling them to take their ads down were somewhat lacking in civility. And I still can’t find anything about ads being banned in the ToS, which people are required to read before signing up (it’s not compulsory to read the FAQ).
If you’re going to play moderator and take me to task for the abrasiveness of my tone, I trust you will extend the same favour to the powers that be. I don’t have a problem with the policy itself (it’s perfectly reasonable to ban advertising on free blogs, since why should we make money out of something we’re getting for free?), I have a problem with the unnecessarily aggressive way it’s been handled, assuming that anyone who wants to host ads must be a splogger. (Like sploggers would even be asking.) And I would also like them to clarify their policy when people sign up, instead of hiding it away on a page that 90% of users (at least) will never read.
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I’ve just seen TWO blogs with ads, so I was about to post to ask
if the ban was lifted. Long ago I read the TOS; thought ads
weren’t allowed yet. So: if heavy traffic –famous author –unique subject
–soaring traffic –press coverage –or if friend of WP employee allowed
to do it, everyone else not? What is criteria to enable advertising
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wank – so I may have been abrupt. Given the quantity and size of those ads I could have just shut the blog. I learned to be nicer first thing, he learned not to have ads.
poppy8sd – send a feedback with all this information please.
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Just for reference, I put in the notice about aleeya site if that’s what you’re talking about. It was just copying and pasting information about alzheimers and providing links to a third party, commerical site. The information I removed from the post was links to a couple of different plugins that one could use to display Adsense adverts on a self hosted blog. I removed them to avoid confusion with some of our members who would see that and wonder how they could add in their own plugins.
Poppy, best bet would be to report them via Feedback.
Podz, we really need to get autoreplies back on the Feedback.
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I have a feeling I know who Poppy is referring to. I also have a feeling that somebody will be explaining that ads for your own book are somehow different ;)
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Scoble links to a book he wrote (or co-wrote?).
It’s one book. It’s got probably an affiliate link.
One link. That’s it.If I started now to shut every blog with one affiliate link or more I would be here all night.
If you wrote a book / wrote a song or produced something you were proud of and which made you money would you like to blog it? That’s all he has done.
drmike – autoreplies? what for?
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You have seen Scoble’s blog, right? Top of the sidebar, I can see an invitation to buy the book from Amazon and another one to buy the same book from Barnes & Noble. (What, are we supposed to get two copies, one from each?) That strikes me as a little more than just one link in a blog post announcing its publication. One is blogging, the other is advertising.
The FAQ page states explicitly that Running ANY adverts on your blog could result in the removal of your blog without notice. Hmm, well, they look exactly like ads. They perform exactly the same function as ads. Yet they’re not ads? Or they are ads, but it’s OK because he’s Scoble and therefore Special?
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I don’t understand…so are there two rules then? If no ads are allowed on WP blogs why is Scobel allowed to run adlike things on his blog? If advertising is banned it should be banned for everyone. Otherwise it makes a nonsense of the ban.
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I agree, what If I create a store on my blog? Their is a website that allows you to create your own products an you can set your own prices. When somebody buys the product you get 50% of the money. So if I created one of them an linked it on my blog as a store, would I be able to do that?
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Just because we don’t want ads by default doesn’t mean we might not make an exception for someone who asks us nicely beforehand. Our main goal is to discourage spammers, people who blog purely for ad revenue, folks who plaster garish ads all over blogs, etc. Personally I hate most ads and I’d rather not see them dirtying the amazing blogs and content we have around here.
It amazes me how quickly people will ugly up their site for the chance at a dollar a day or less. I would expect most folks price to be higher.
We’re still figuring it out and doing tests, but most likely ads will be allowed for paying users, whenever we decide what paying users are, and there will possibly be some sort of revshare. We’re going to run some tests starting tonight, which I’ll post about on the blog soon.
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Just because we don’t want ads by default doesn’t mean we might not make an exception for someone who asks us nicely beforehand.
OK, well that bears no resemblance to anything it says on the FAQ, or anything the moderators have been saying on the forums for months. Nowhere else has it been suggested that asking nicely would earn anything other than a referral back to the FAQ and an invitation to wait patiently for Adsense to be implemented for paid users.
But then, we do need a different FAQ to cover Scoble.
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