You can’t advertise on WordPress, can you?!?
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Once again, my blog link is: http://jmorrow50.wordpress.com/. Feel free to visit my site and form your own opinion. I will point out that most of my recent posting activity has been related to sports supplements. The company that I work for does not make a single sports nutrition supplement. I look forward to comments on my site and any dietary supplement questions that you may have. Cheers.
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@jmorrow50 – We are volunteers here and neither make nor interpret rules. If you have any doubts about your blog, why not ask the PTB to take a look? You can contact them from the tab in the upper right of your dashboard.
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Thank you ella. If need be, does anyone know how technically difficult it is to switch to a wordpress.org blog on my own domain? Is there any easy way to do this in which you can maintain your widgets and content?
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The wp.org installation comes with widgets. You cannot “take your theme and widgets” with you from wordpress.com as we run on different software.
(1) Hire a web host.
I use A Small Orange $25 per year
http://www.asmallorange.com/services/hosting/(2) If you are savvy enough to download the free blog template software and the plugins you want from http://wordpress.org and upload it into your site yourself – cool. And if not there’s http://install4free.wordpress.net/
(3) You can export your wordpress.com blog contents (pages, posts, comments, categories) out into an xml file and then import them into your wordpress.org install. The links must be separately exported and imported.
(3) You have to be prepared to upload and install new versions and updates.
(4) If you start as domain.wordpress.com and switch to your own domain with a wp.org install you will lose your Google juice for a few months and your Technorati rank will go back to zero.
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Hi everyone, I just noticed the strangest thing. First of all, I’ve removed all the content from my blog which could be considered advertising. However, I just clicked on one of my blog links when I wasn’t signed into my blog, and I see all of these “ads by google” on my blog. How did that happen? When I logged into my blog, the ads disappeared. I don’t mind if wp wants to run google ads on my blog, but I just want to make sure these ads are placed by wp. Please let me know… thanks again.
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From the last paragraph of the features page: http://wordpress.com/features/
Advertising
To support the service we may occasionally show Google text ads on your blog, however we do this very rarely. In the future you’ll be able to purchase an upgrade to either turn the ads off or show your own ads and make money from your blog. -
Thanks Ella, just wanted to make sure everything was okay. As for the discussion on the link that you provided, I am certainly more than happy to let wp post ads on my site in return for free bloggin. I’ve tried adsense widgets on my blogger blogs (out of curiousity), and I am guessing that unless you have a blog with an incredibly huge volume of monthly traffic, it doesn’t benefit the individual user very much. However, with the huge number of blogs on wp, it certainly offers wp the ability to generate needed revenue.
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I’m not going to play “citizen on patrol” and start snitching on fellow bloggers because they may have posted a little innocuous ad…shoot, even if the whole blog was one big ad why do I care? I don’t have to read it…and I’m certainly not going to click on the “report spam” link. If they go against WordPress’ TOS…that’s between them and WordPress. I ain’t getting into the middle of something that doesn’t concern me. I never understood why some people are so offended by a little advertising anyway? I started my blog here at WordPress because I liked the layout and all the great features. There are 2 things (3 if they don’t fix the Akismet bug) that I don’t like about WordPress but I’m willing to live with… 1) That they don’t allow us to make a little money via an AdSense type program. What’s the big deal? My blog ain’t about making money but since my day job barely pays the rent it would be nice! Not like it would hurt anybody… 2) No javascript or forms. Now I understand the security issue but if they can’t figure out a way to make it safe to add 3rd party scripts then at least offer more widgets or trusted script partners. Aside from those 2 complaints WordPress is a pretty awesome place to have a blog and I will continue to use WP into the foreseeable future.
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“even if the whole blog was one big ad why do I care? “
“WordPress is a pretty awesome place to have a blog “
Hopefully because we keep all the spammers, ad merchants, penis growth experts, “Make a Million $$$”, sploggers and all the other crap that actually makes us a pretty awesome place.
The fact is that we need to have rules to make sure the place is kept clean. We say no ads because what we can’t say is “You can ads for x and y but not z”.
There is no way we will turn into Blogger. -
Yes, you can say “You can (have) ads for x and y but not z”, that is what is called having rules!
There is a reason why spam rhymes with scam…these kind of ads are obvious and I don’t think anyone is asking to allow those…but if someone wants to try to make a little honest money selling a cafepress t-shirt that fits in with their blog or if they want to make a little extra change from GoogleAds that’s a completely different deal.
I also have a blog on Blogger and for the purpose of my blog there Blogger suits it just fine…I have never had a problem with it…However I believe WP has better features (overall) so that’s why I chose it for the blog I have here…and what makes it an awesome place, in my view, is, like I said, the features. It has nothing to do if someone has ads in their blog or not, again, I could care less. I read the blogs I like and don’t read the one’s I don’t…with or without ads.
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I care, and I vastly prefer blogs without ads. And I make my living from ads on blogs. It looks awful cheezy to invite people into your living room and then allow strangers to pitch them.
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I care, and I vastly prefer blogs without ads. And I make my living from ads on blogs. It looks awful cheezy to invite people into your living room and then allow strangers to pitch them.
I tend to agree, but a couple things:
1) WordPress does that anyway. I’ve yet to see one, but I’m always logged on and I use Firefox, which IIRC decreases the likelihood.
2) The rules aren’t clearly laid out and they don’t seem to be uniformly enforced. That was the reason for my question a few days ago. Several months ago we were told that it’s okay to have a cafepress link in a blogroll, which is in direct conflict with the TOS. The blog I saw had (has. Just checked.) a 240×240 picture of a T shirt in a sidebar widget. Nothing big deal but as I said before, I don’t know if I’m allowed to do this too, or if they aren’t and I just don’t know it, or if I’ll have my blog deleted for doing the same.
A clear definitive statement of the rules would be helpful.
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@pipsqueak
Mark has previously said on several occasions report blogs with advertising like the T-shirt one that you mention. He knows which blogs are VIP blogs and which are not and he will take appropriate action. -
I don’t know if I’m allowed to do this too, or if they aren’t and I just don’t know it, or if I’ll have my blog deleted for doing the same.
As you do not have a VIP account you cannot advertising on your blog and I think you already know that.
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“It looks awful cheezy to invite people into your living room and then allow strangers to pitch them.”
I have seen a lot of cheezy things in people’s living rooms but that doesn’t stop me from visiting if I like them!
I am not going to beat a dead horse (no matter how fun that sounds) because I joined WP knowing fully well that ads were not allowed and I’m fine with that…I just don’t understand the rationality behind it. Mind you I’m not talking about spam, I am talking about limited, targeted and unobtrusive advertising. If I visit a website on a topic that I am interested in I don’t mind, in fact I appreciate, ads that may be of interest to me. Even if I come across an ad that I don’t care for it does not diminish the experience and it certainly does not ruin my day!
Obviously ads are not the big evil as WP would lead us to believe otherwise they wouldn’t use them themselves or allow certain privileged blogs to do so.
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In the wordpress blog, see Matt’s post On Ads.
In addition, the last paragraph of the WordPress.com features page says this:
Advertising
To support the service we may occasionally show Google text ads on your blog, however we do this very rarely. In the future you’ll be able to purchase an upgrade to either turn the ads off or show your own ads and make money from your blog. -
This is a dead horse. If a change in policy is what you want to see then posting here is an exercise in futility. Support hours are Monday – Friday 8AM – 4PM and you can use the “support” link on the top right hand corner of any admin side blog page to reach TPTB and state your case to them.
On the other hand, quality web hosting is inexpensive (I know because I have hosted wp.org blogs as well) so, if you are eager to have a blog with “limited, targeted and unobtrusive advertising” you can hire a web host and download free software from http://wordpress.org and be up and running in no time.
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Yes, I know it is a dead horse…that is why I called it one. And like I said I chose to be on WP, I could have went with a host of other options but I didn’t…I like WP…I am just trying to have a discussion. Thanks for the info though.
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If you want read discussion on blogger initiated advertising there’s tons of it in the forum searchbox https://en.forums.wordpress.com/search.php?q=adsense
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