WordPress.com Forums » Tag: ads on my blog - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/ads-on-my-blog WordPress.com Forums » Tag: ads on my blog - Recent Posts en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:52:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 thesacredpath on "Ads without permission" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ads-without-permission#post-718457 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:05:06 +0000 thesacredpath 718457@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You are welcome.

]]> hollymedia on "Ads without permission" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ads-without-permission#post-718455 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:03:35 +0000 hollymedia 718455@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you!

]]> thesacredpath on "Ads without permission" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ads-without-permission#post-718452 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:45:59 +0000 thesacredpath 718452@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ads have been appearing on sites here since 2006.

From the support document on advertising:

Note: To support the service (and keep free features free), we sometimes run advertisements. We try hard to only run them in limited places. If you would like to completely eliminate ads from appearing on your blog, we offer the No-Ads Upgrade.

From the Terms of Service:

9. Advertisements. Automattic reserves the right to display advertisements on your blog unless you have purchased an Ad-free Upgrade or a VIP Services account.

]]> hollymedia on "Ads without permission" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ads-without-permission#post-718447 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:16:03 +0000 hollymedia 718447@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I noticed that there are ads appearing below my posts (not on the home page), and I haven't been informed/contacted by WordPress regarding the usage of ads on my blog. Need advice.

]]> timethief on "These are the 3 strange incident during blogging on wordpress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/these-are-the-3-strange-incident-during-blogging-on-wordpress#post-558712 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:18:39 +0000 timethief 558712@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome. Happy blogging. :)

]]> ayimass on "These are the 3 strange incident during blogging on wordpress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/these-are-the-3-strange-incident-during-blogging-on-wordpress#post-558706 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:40:33 +0000 ayimass 558706@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ~~timethief
very good explanation.... thank you very much

]]> timethief on "These are the 3 strange incident during blogging on wordpress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/these-are-the-3-strange-incident-during-blogging-on-wordpress#post-558702 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:24:14 +0000 timethief 558702@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you do not wish to have any ads on your blog you can pay for a No-Ads Upgrade. Please see here. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/

]]> timethief on "These are the 3 strange incident during blogging on wordpress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/these-are-the-3-strange-incident-during-blogging-on-wordpress#post-558701 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:22:42 +0000 timethief 558701@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ WordPress.com has been running advertsising on our free hosted blogs since 2006. This is stated on the Features page at the bottom.
http://en.wordpress.com/features/

It's also stated in the support documentation.

Advertising
To support the service we may occasionally show ads on your blog, however we do this very rarely. You can remove ads from your blog for a low yearly fee. We also have an option for high traffic blogs to show their own ads.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

]]> ayimass on "These are the 3 strange incident during blogging on wordpress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/these-are-the-3-strange-incident-during-blogging-on-wordpress#post-558695 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:08:49 +0000 ayimass 558695@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ~~timethief
why the ad impressions appear on my blog?

]]> timethief on "These are the 3 strange incident during blogging on wordpress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/these-are-the-3-strange-incident-during-blogging-on-wordpress#post-558692 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:36:23 +0000 timethief 558692@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This is a technical support forum for bloggers who need assistance with software issues ine their free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.com. Please state what it is that you need assitance with.

]]> ayimass on "These are the 3 strange incident during blogging on wordpress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/these-are-the-3-strange-incident-during-blogging-on-wordpress#post-558683 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:59:01 +0000 ayimass 558683@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ For a discussion of just why it happened and there may be an explanation that can be accepted. Jump onto

]]> vandeurz on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250839 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:01:44 +0000 vandeurz 250839@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

and I showed you some bloggers who have solutions

You did, and they do. But I'm quite right about these Terms, ain't I?

]]> justjennifer on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250795 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:48:42 +0000 justjennifer 250795@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @clapso-you seem to be under the impression that running WordPress.com is an altruistic venture. It costs money to provide space and bandwidth, even if you provide the content.

BTW-do you have a flickr account? If you pay flickr US$25 a year you can upload and store an unlimited number of photos and there's no advertising shown to you when you surf flickr. If you have a free flickr account, you have a monthly upload limit, you can only see your latest 200 photos in your photostream, you don't have access to your full-size images and you regularly see Yahoo ads on flickr's pages, guaranteed. And using your own argument, if it weren't for flickr's users, there wouldn't be any content on flickr either.

Even if you never see a single ad on your WordPress.COM blog, if running ads to support the free service you receive so disturbs you, you now have the option of getting rid of those ads for US$30 a year-this was an option you didn't have until a few days ago.

The other option you have is moving your blog to a self-hosted WordPress.ORG install.There you can run or not run ads as you like and of course pay for the costs associated in running your own blog.

My rapidly falling 2 cents worth. Just sayin'...

Cheers!

]]> raincoaster on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250787 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:20:30 +0000 raincoaster 250787@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @ vandeurz, there is no point debating Automattic policy or the policies of other bloggers with me; they are not my policies. You seemed unhappy with the existing situation and I showed you some bloggers who have solutions. If you want to debate the merits of their solutions, debate with them.

]]> vandeurz on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250687 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:42:54 +0000 vandeurz 250687@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raincoaster,
Good idea, but not for all bloggers:

3. That I do not accept money in return for advertising space on my blog

I would! And it won't have to be 50%, 49 suffices!

I've read the Terms of Service over (I admit I hadn't done thoroughly the first time around) and saw a few breeches, or rather, weak spots:

Responsibility of contributors: the content is not spam'.
Aren't these ad-links just that: spam? Or should I say web-hacks?

'You must immediately notify Automattic of any unauthorized uses of your blog'
Is Terms speaking to me, or to itself? Aren't these ad-links standing on the feet of my texts just that: unauthorized?

The Terms also talks about Automattics' intellectual property. Where's the legalized line that recognizes BLOGGERS's authorship? You see, you don't have to ad a © to your intellectual/creative properties, name and hyphen are of no difference to their protected status. WordPress is not allowed to change anything in blogposts, unless WP can show that they are an infringement of their Terms of Service, or when - for instance - the Mickey Mouse Protection Act is violated.

'By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement'.
The sub Advertisings isn't included in the Terms. So how can a blogger agree with it?
According to me this is WordPress' one and real agreement's cheat. That may sound mean, but it really does make a difference how the ads are integrated. We do not want blogging around advertisings, it should be the other way around.

]]> clapso on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250658 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:08:44 +0000 clapso 250658@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have been looking the other way on this issue, until the fee thing was announced. I have just posted to my blog my probs with this and my suggested solution:

http://clapso.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/adnonsense-trouble-in-wordpress-paradise/

I hope you'll all come by and read it.

The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer

]]> raincoaster on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250591 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:11:49 +0000 raincoaster 250591@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You may want to check out http://membracid.wordpress.com or http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com as I believe they both have specific disclaimers about "anything you see below this line was not placed by me" or something along those lines. OCS has great info about the whole ad issue.

]]> vandeurz on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250577 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:05:24 +0000 vandeurz 250577@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Once more about the ads themselves:
Wordpress let the advertisers do the worst thing possible: a row of URL links straight after the last line in your post. Readers will think that they are part of your article, that YOU put them there, that YOU want to coax them into clicking and buying some product.
I already feature a disclaimer, but I'm considering to put it under every (copyrighted!)post; bold and underlined. A free service space does not mean that whatever I put in the space between the pageframe lines, may be raped. And that is what is done. Unless the ads are placed at the side, or on top of the header.

]]> justjennifer on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250488 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:40:47 +0000 justjennifer 250488@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @beemeister-Having to pay WordPress.com in order to run your own ads is also a deterrent to sploggers. Why pay someone when you can splog for free elsewhere?

@tsp-If you have to pay to run your own ads, WordPress.com still earns money from your blog, so maybe it's not so far off as they make it sound. I get the feeling that the Opt-In upgrade is going to be a bit more expensive than the Opt-Out upgrade. (see above point)

@matt-yes, you do. :) (But it would be nice to share a full BBQ dinner from time-to-time rather than just getting tortilla chips and salsa.) ;)

]]> matt on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250475 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:00:07 +0000 matt 250475@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just like to keep you guys guessing. ;)

]]> beemeister on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250320 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:29:00 +0000 beemeister 250320@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm not...I will enjoy (somewhat) ad-free WordPress for as long as possible.

]]> thesacredpath on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250317 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:26:47 +0000 thesacredpath 250317@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ They've been saying it was in the future for two years. Don't hold your breath.

]]> beemeister on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250315 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:24:38 +0000 beemeister 250315@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ andrew said: Hey, does this mean I can run my own ads now? :)

Matt actually said that he and gang is working on a paid upgrade which will allow you to display your own ads. If you want that sort of thing (ads...ick!) ;)

]]> raincoaster on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250301 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:07:57 +0000 raincoaster 250301@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, that's not what she's saying.

@ andrew: Matt's post is #1 on WP today as it was yesterday, and Lorelle's (basically the same information) is #2. I think people are just relieved and lined up at the internet bank machines, that's all.

]]> thewhitelilyblog on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250293 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:59:37 +0000 thewhitelilyblog 250293@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Justjennifer, are you saying perhaps that Benevolence does not have ads? (Because I was just going to shell out 30 clams for the 'upgrade.').

]]> andrew on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250134 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:54:50 +0000 andrew 250134@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm surprised at how little reaction there has been. I thought it was post-worthy, and thought that other wp.c-based bloggers would be of the same mind. Not so, going by the following tag pages:
http://wordpress.com/tag/ads/
http://wordpress.com/tag/wordpresscom/
And much of the reaction here in the forums is from people anticipating the reaction.
Hey, does this mean I can run my own ads now? :)

]]> raincoaster on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/3#post-250075 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:06:41 +0000 raincoaster 250075@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yep. And I only have 22 in my paypal account, dammit!

]]> rosclarke on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/2#post-250074 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:01:13 +0000 rosclarke 250074@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Is it April 1st? No? Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather when I saw this!

]]> raincoaster on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/2#post-250058 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:27:26 +0000 raincoaster 250058@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ But there WILL be a lot of people confused about whether this means THEY can run ads or not. And they're mostly going to be the dumb, repeat-the-question-repeatedly-and-be-outraged-the-answer-doesn't-change types, too.

]]> raincoaster on "adsense appeared on my wordpress.com blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adsense-appeared-on-my-wordpresscom-blog/page/2#post-250057 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:26:13 +0000 raincoaster 250057@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This is awesome! I guess somebody told Matt I got a new job and could afford it for my blogs after all! Hey, whatever it takes to light a fire under these guys!

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