Who is getting the money fron Google Ads on my Blog?

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  steveyoung · Member · Dec 20, 2010 at 8:54 am

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  I have noticed that Google Ads sometimes appear on my Blog http://steveyoung.wordpress.com

  I didn’t put them there and I am not getting any payment from Google for them so I would like to know who is responsible for putting these ads there and who is receiving the payments from Google.

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 20, 2010 at 10:01 am

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  If you look at http://wordpress.com/features/ at the bottom of the page wordpress states that they many occasionally display ads on the blogs here to pay for all the expenses of running this hosting service (datacenters, servers, bandwidth, etc.).

  You can also read through this support document (last paragraph).

  There is the no-ads upgrade available here that will take all the ads off your blog. It is a yearly upgrade.

  No Ads

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 20, 2010 at 10:02 am

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  Oops, I forgot a link.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

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  thepaulohana · Member · Dec 22, 2010 at 12:01 pm

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  Thank you; I was wondering about that.

  [EDIT: No signatures please.]

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  timethief · Member · Dec 22, 2010 at 6:42 pm

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  @thepaulohana
  Please do NOT post signature links to your blog at the end of your comments on this forum. It’s not allowed. it’s redundant as we link our usernames to our blogs. So please do not compel our our Moderators to spend their time chasing behind and removing signature links.

  Thanks, in advance, for your cooperation. :)

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  hewsut · Member · Dec 22, 2010 at 7:56 pm

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  @tt Thank you for the modlook tag. Please leave the verbal correcting to staff and moderators.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 22, 2010 at 7:57 pm

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  Well, there goes MY role as a volunteer.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 22, 2010 at 7:59 pm

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  @hewsut
  speechless!

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  eslincanada · Member · Jan 31, 2011 at 6:16 pm

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  I have a question – If you purchase the no ads upgrade are you allowed to place google ads on your blog?

  thank you

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 31, 2011 at 6:42 pm

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  @eslincanada, no, the no-ads upgrade is just that. It removes the google ads that wordpress puts on your blog. There is no upgrade that allows blog owners to place ads on their blogs here at wordpress.COM.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 31, 2011 at 10:28 pm

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  @eslincanada
  I note that you have not provided a link to the blog in question and that the site linked to your username is not a free blog from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM. Please post the URL for the blog in question so we can be sure you are posting to the correct support forum for that specific blog.

  For more clarity on the differences between wordpress.com free hosted blogs and wordpress.org software installs for self hosting please read this entry. > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  If you are referring to a free blog being free hosted by wordpress.com then read the entries TSP is speaking of at the links he provided. >
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://support.wordpress.com/no-ads/

  If you are referring to a wordpress.org software install then the correct forum to post to is here. http://wordpress.org/support/