WordPress.com allowing optional Ad Service
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By far, I am no techie or a web designer. I am an aspiring media titan that built numerous brands with WordPress.com. When I first began, I created my first website with Blogger. There was not much about Blogger that I liked besides being able to serve ads through AdSense. The ads were optional, but I did not like the fact that their themes did not offer tabs. It does not seem like that big of a deal, but tabs are very important. For two months, I searched until I set up an account with WordPress.com. August 18, 2010 will mark my two-year anniversary with WP and I love the easiness of it. But, I broke into the blogging for profit, I offer online magazines and I want to sell ads. The content of my websites are just too strong for me to not be profiting. I do not see why WordPress.com can offer a service where the website owners decide if they want ads on their blogs or not. That way, people would not grow upset with WordPress serving ads on their sites from time to time.
I do not mind WordPress selling ads on my sites, but I want a piece of the action. I am not into selling private ads, so I would have to rely on AdSense and other services to sell for me. I am more than willing to share my profits, as long as I am making a profit. They say that people like me should move on to WordPress.org, but I am not a techie or a web designer. I am simply an entrepreneur that created my websites to profit.
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This isn’t a technical support issue so I’ll flag it and our Moderator’s will move it to the Ideas Forum (Ideas and suggestions for WP.com) which is here > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas
Also note the support documentation entry here in case you have not read it: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
I am simply an entrepreneur that created my websites to profit.
You can get a free hosted blog and do that free of charge at Blogger (blogspot) and advertise all over it, as well as, becoming an affiliate, so what’s stopping you?
You see what I like best about wordpress.com is that it’s not full of bloggers with dollar signs in their eyes and cash registers where I believe their hearts ought to be.That’s because blogging is my passion and I have no aim to make money from it.
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You have linked your wordpress.com username to your free hosted ning site rather than your wordpress.com blog. That’s not helpful to Volunteers answering forum questions and it can be confusing to other members who may actually want to visit your wordpress.com blog and not the ning site.If you do not want to change the wordpress.com username link so it links to your wordpress.com blog then you have one other choice. That’s to post the URL to the blog to which you refer each and every time you post to this forum.
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We are testing a feature called Ad Control that lets WordPress.com bloggers with a lot of traffic (generally 50,000 pageviews/month or more) and appropriate content turn on AdSense for their blog and split the resulting revenues 50/50 with us. If you’d like to apply to try Ad Control, please use the form below to send us a message, and include the blog URL/address and your traffic details for the past 90 days
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
Otherwise, you are entirely free to export your content to your own self-hosted WordPress.ORG install and run as many ads as you like.
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/sorry! The quote is from that link and there should have been a space between the link and the next paragraph.
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I have said already that I do not like Blogger, it is confusing to me. I like the easiness of WordPress.com, so why would I leave? My traffic is not high enough to be placed into the AdControl feature, but I am invested in some popular niches.
I suggest that WordPress.com offer some sort of service to businessmen just like me who want to serve ads on their sites. I am no techie, so I cannot download the .org software. I love the WordPress.com themes, I cannot afford VIP hosting and my websites bring in around 20,000 a month, at the summer peak, my flagship site reached 50,000 hits.
Is there something that WordPress.com could offer me?
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Is there something that WordPress.com could offer me?
Please hire your self a web host, download free software from worddpress.org and self host your own blog. I’m suggesting that because it’s clear that you won’t be happy here at wordpress.com.
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/With the kind of traffic you get you will make about $16.00 every 6 months or so but Adsense doesn’t send you a check until you make $100.
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Thanks for the advice people! It really has helped, but soon my audience will be up there with the VIPs because it has steadily increased since August 2008, also I have plans to create a superwebsite and I would love for WordPress.com to be a part of it.
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In case you are interested demographics are available for your blog and you can find them here http://www.quantcast.com/tvtbt.wordpress.com
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You may also be interested in the information about your blog found here > http://www.cubestat.com/www.tvtbt.wordpress.com
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Thanks, I checked my audience and they are extremely likely to click on my ads, plus I have more websites to create. See, WordPress contradicts itself. It says for businesses that want to profit, use .org, then it says if you do not want the hassle of setting up a site of your own, use .com. There is no exact solution for someone like me and my company.
I just know that we could really profit if WordPress.com would simply offer the option for us to have ads. I own multiple businesses and the internet thing is sort of a side businesses, but I love WordPress. I have worked with other blog services and I still do, but my favorite is this one.
The only problem is, I have build my audience and they are receptive, but I cannot capitalize off of it. They should have some other type of business package for those who are not comfortable buying the VIP hosting. I have come to the point where I have established brands and I need to profit. It has come down to me hiring a web designer and fixing up a Blogger blog and buying my own domain to host these sites, and the rest of them, on Blogger, which I hate.
I wish that there was a service that combined the best of Blogger and the best of WordPress just for my companies.
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I place zero value on ad clickers. I have blogs on my own domains that have not been monetized. I’m looking for readers not ad clickers.
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But, my audience buys more products than any other audience and it is steadily growing, on a slow day, my worst site brings in 250 hits.
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