wordpress blog addons
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Hey, I know this has been covered a lot in this forum, but i wasn’t able to find the answer i am after so i’m posting again.
I’m a BIG fan of wordpress and everything it provides for creating a blog, i’m enjoying keeping my blog here at wordpress. However i am dissapointed that i can’t add a newsletter subscribe widget on my blog (i have seen help for this but i think feedburner has changed and doesn’t allow this for wordpress anymore, or vise versa), and i can’t place google adwords on my blog.
I understand wordpress doesn’t want to allow advertisments on the blogs, but it is something i would like to include…
For this reason, does anyone know if WordPress is considering allowing google adwords to be placed on blogs which want them soon? Or… is it only possible to place google adwords on my blog is i change providers, such as move to blogger?
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Feedburner has not changed, I think. It works fine on my blog. Just copy and paste the code from Feedbruner into a text widget.
As to Google Adwords, I doubt that WordPress will change its mind anytime soon. Actually I’m quite happy not to have ads on my blog.
You can try self-hosted wordpress.org, blogspot.com or typepad.com if you really want to have ads. There’s also the VIP-upgrade at wordpress.com, but that’s not for the average blogger.
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I don’t know why the newsletter subscription won’t work on my blog. I don’t think it would have anything to do with the template i’m using. But i have followed about three different instructions to setup the newsletter to a T. Apart from the fact one of the instruction steps i went through said to select ‘wordpress’ blog when collecting the code, and that not being an option there (only typepad and blogger where), everything else i followed exactly. The problem i seemed to have though was when inserting the code into the widget text box. Everytime i pasted it in there, then clicked “ok” or whatever it says, can’t rememeber now. Then re-open the text window, the code dissapears. I have tried changing the code to make it as short as possible and ‘wordpress’ friendly, but it made no difference, the text widget wouldn’t accept it. I have seen other wordpress blogs with a email subscription window that i want to add, and i have wondered how they have been able to add it when it seems to be impossible for me.
Do you know if the wordpress.org dashboard is the same or very similar to the wordpress.com dashboard?
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OK, I see what you mean. If it “disappears” in your widget it means that you are trying to insert a script, and that will not work in wordpress.com. Just to make sure, when you say “email newsletter”, do you mean “subscribe by email” as in Publicize > Email Subscrptions when you are in Feedburner? The first one, called “Subscription Form Code” will not work in wordpress.com, you will have to use the bottom one, called “Subscription Link Code”. Copy and paste that into a text widget. That will bring up something like this http://feeds.feedburner.com/TypepadVersusWordpress where you decide how you want your subscription delivered, including email. But that’s the feed and not a newsletter. Are we talking about different things here?
I don’t know how the dashboard in wordpress.org, but my educated guess is that it’s exactly the same…more or less: http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels
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Blogging is a lot of work. And Adwords are about the only way to generate money unless you get paid to post about products, which is selling out and ruins unbiased blogging. I am one who vote for adwords…but this is not a democracy.
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Which brings us to the key question: Are you blogging purely to make money online, or purely for joy of sharing your views and opinions and for the sake of your readers. If you’re in for the former, then wordpress.com is probably not the best place to be, if for the latter, wordpress.com is a great tool.
You are not entirely barred from making money on wordpress.com. You can still review amazon products and make money as an affiliate, or you could review products from advertisers at, say, Commission Junction, BUT there’s a fine line between a pure “blogging only” blog with mostly “regular” posts and the occasional “commercial” post, and a pure “make money only” blog, and I’m not sure where WordPress draws the line on what IS a violation of TOS or not. -
WordPress.com already runs Google Ads on your blog. That is the reason you cannot do so. Look at the bottom of this page http://wordpress.com/features/ The mentioned upgrade to turn them off or run them yourself has been there a long, long time and is still not available.
How can I offer email updates?
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By the way, Adsense discussions have been done to death on the forums. Just click on the tag Adsense at the top of this page or at the top of the tag list on the front page of the forum and spend an eternity or two reading the resulting threads. At the end of that time we most likely will still be waiting for the upgrade and still replying to forum threads about Adsense. (Pardon me if my cynicism is showing.) :)
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If you read the FAQs on business blogging, you’ll see that ads are not the only way to make money via a blog. In fact, they’re not even the best way.
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