Why does my webpage appear with wordpress google ads?
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Well, business is business so, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a future option where one could pay for an “ad-free” blog upgrade.
After all, paid upgrades are good for business and, offering this one given the right PR, could make it sound as if WordPress.com was “coming to the rescue” of those who don’t want ads on their blogs. ;) -
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The paid CSS upgrade does not, as far as I can tell, negate the ads. If it did, it would be hella more popular.
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Oh yes it could. :) I would just identify the container in the markup and then relocate the ads to somewhere less intrusive using position absolute or text indent. Somewhere like 5000px out of left field for example. :)
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Of course, they could just use random Div’s with the same ID as the ad to stop this, but it has to show up somewhere. Might have to wipe out the footer or something ;)
Trent
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Ahhh …. yes, it was not intended but a bit of knowledge can make one creative with css indeed ;)
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at the 404: Surely using a 5000px shift would create a mahoosive horizontal scroll bar?
Could you not use Display:none instead?
It’s a hell of a way to try and get rids of the ads though. Personally, the easiest way is just to stay signed in. You never see ’em then! ;)
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Well a descendant selector would evade that. It could be fun. But I have never seen an ad. If anyone has please grab the source code. :)
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{wicked laughter} what you can’t see can’t bother you can it C?
{sniggering} give us an ad – we must have the source code …
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As to the shift – not necessarily. You could go position: absolute way down below the footer. And display: none as you say would do it too. :) Or you could reduce the text to size: 0. Or change its color to *match* the background. Not that I have ever used such manouvers…………….
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I love the change the colour to match the background idea.
And the change the text size to zero one made me snort.
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On further reflection – this needs to be seamless so as to not attract the anti spamming penalties from the Big G. The CSS Z-index is ideal. It drops the content in the stack eg behindthe blog. Think photoshp layers. :)
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The point being that you can do lots to hide (stop) it, but it would most likely go against the TOS and wouldn’t matter much anyways. All speculation at this point about the future policy anyways so I guess we should just move on.
Trent
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if a *prepaid* CSS tricks would be a TOS violation, then .com will be totally ghetto.
even GOOG doesn’t mind about hiding its navbar.
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Here’s a quote from The Guardian that’s pertinent to the issue of indications of changes in store re: advertising.
Mullenweg plans to allow users to add Google’s AdSense to their blogs. But will this open the floodgates to sploggers? “Part of the WordPress brand is high-quality blogs, and we’re not going to do anything to damage that. We have an extraordinary number of really high-quality blogs, and some of them could do quite well with AdSense,” says Mullenweg. “We plan to make it a paid upgrade, at least $15 (£7.45) a year per blog, and our policies on splogs or spammy content aren’t going to change.”
In light of the Guardian quote above and this as well as this there are 3 reasons to believe an adsense widget upgrade is just around the corner.
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Fascinating discussion. Sniggering along with all of you – but only with due reverence, trent. Thanks for sharing that Guardian quote (as well as the two thises), timethief! It does appears the time may be nigh.
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I think it’s better for forum volunteers to be prepared for change than to have the issue “pop-up” and blind side them as a totally unexpected policy reversal.
I wasn’t kidding BTW. I do expect there will also be a paid upgrade option for “ad-free” blog status as well.
If so then there will be 3 wordpress.com plans:
(1) free blog with wordpress.com initiated advertising
(2) upgrade for additional blogger initiated advertising
(3) upgrade to have an “ad-free” blogRounding that out will be the alternative of moving to hire a web host or to self-host a wordpress.org template. In the case of the wordpress.org choice you can edit your template and have an ad-free or ad-laden blog. So, the line between wordpress.com and wordpress.org will smudge. The distinction will be minimized and over time this forum will probably become “the” central wordpress forum.
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They don’t mind you hiding the footer link to wordpress.com with CSS, so I don’t think they can reasonably make any objection to hiding their other ads. I see nothing in the ToS about it, and it’s not our Google account we’re messing with. Since logged-in users never see ads anyway, who is ever going to find out that you’ve hidden it from everyone else? I very much doubt Matt checks clickthroughs on individual blogs ;)
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