WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Google Adsense should be alloud.

vikasjnu on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

vikasjnu — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:29:22 +0000

rahulbuzz,

All the best.

rahulbuzz on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

rahulbuzz — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:50:33 +0000

@ Vikasjnu
I read your five reasons not to shift..from wordpress.com to wordpress.org..Still i am not expert in all this but i am running my blog, quite successfully.
I am learning all things myself..Now i am thinking to make my wordpress.com as my personal blog.

[no sigs please - Mark]

vikasjnu on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

vikasjnu — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:56:14 +0000

Mark, thanks for the friendly reminder. I just realized I have put up four links three of which relate to my blog!

I learnt a new acronym from this discussion: OP [Original Poster].

mark on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

mark — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:36:39 +0000

The OP now has a hint to get in touch. Duplicate content is not allowed - and it's not for SEO reasons :)

@vikasjnu - thanks for your links, don't think we need yet another :)

justjennifer on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

justjennifer — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:37:29 +0000

Seems the OP is continuing to mirror his posts to his WP.com blog. Does someone want to tell him how that's going to hurt him in the long-run? :-)

I agree that if allowing ads on WP.com happens, it should be a paid upgrade, but certainly more than the $30/year no-ad upgrade. That should help separate the chaff from the wheat. Also, if you haven't yet read this interview of Matt Mullenweg by Jonathan Bailey of PlagarismToday.com, it certainly puts the no Adsense things in a different light.

vikasjnu on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

vikasjnu — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:12:21 +0000

Everyone,

I have shifted to self-hosting and guess what is my first post after shifting?! The sound of drum is pleasant only from a distance!

It is '5 reasons why you should not shift from wordpress.com to wordpress.org'

http://vikas-gupta.in/2009/12/12/5-reasons-why-you-should-not-shift-from-wordpress-com-blog-to-wordpress-org/

vikasjnu on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

vikasjnu — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:31:17 +0000

Google AdSense is not free from ills. Just see the AdSense forum and you will find so many people who have been banned, have not received payments and whatnot for unknowingly violating policies or due to some unknown error. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/label?lid=215fb2e4b67e2667&hl=en

thesacredpath on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

thesacredpath — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:13:12 +0000

Ads by Dodge and slot machines. Is there anything that says high-class or high-quality like that?

bats0711 on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

bats0711 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:08:32 +0000

Yes you did move it and now you have ads by dodge on it, oh and slot machines.

vikasjnu on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

vikasjnu — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:05:53 +0000

Very interesting discussion! I laughed more than once reading the posts.

My blog gets about 16k hits per month and I shifted to wordpress.org only yesterday http://vikas-gupta.in . Will soon try AdSense on it but that is not the primary reason I shifted. I wanted more themes and flexibility apart from experimenting with ads. I have no big desire for earning from ads.

Dougary 2112, your assertion in the header of your new blog "I made this blog originally on WordPress but it didnt allow me to put a google Ad on it so i shifted all my posts onto this! enjoy." is in bad taste. You will make a bad entrepreneur! It is a WP policy, nothing less nothing more! You speak like you are some financial whizzkid LOL! You haven't even put up redirection notice on your WP blog!

BTW, if anybody wants to see how the AdSense ads by by WP look on our blogs, then click this link http://vikas-gupta.in/2009/11/09/not-many-know-that-the-free-wordpress-com-blogs-have-ads-on-them/

raincoaster on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

raincoaster — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:42:39 +0000

By the way, unless I'm mistaken, 15 is not old enough to get an authorized Adsense account. So you're out of luck anyway.

raincoaster on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

raincoaster — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:41:55 +0000

Even 15 year olds don't have to look cheap and loserish.

dougary2112 on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

dougary2112 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:41:13 +0000

Well im only 15.. so i think thats all i can do at this moment.

raincoaster on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

raincoaster — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:29:32 +0000

If you moved it, that's fine. What are you doing HERE, where we're talking about WordPress.COM?

We're not saying you're lying. We're saying you're wrong.

I make about $600 a month of ads on my blog network, and of that, I'd say that about 1/20th is Adsense. Besides, Adsense makes you look...cheap and stupid. It does. Adsense is just goddam tacky and makes you look like a two-bit loser.</stong>

dougary2112 on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

dougary2112 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:25:27 +0000

Really guys. that is MY BLOG. i also moved it to Blogspot.
http://boredumbuster.blogspot.com/
And really the only reason i dont get much comments is because its pictures and stuff, most people that search them are from other search engines without a wordpress account AND i dont think they would be willing to creat an account to comment on a picture they want saved etc..

So please dont try say that i'm lying.

raincoaster on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

raincoaster — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:30:19 +0000

hillelstoler, you nailed it.

1tess on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

1tess — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:22:32 +0000

@hillelstoler
I agree with you completely. Well said.

@phoxis
"how many people click on the ad?"
Don't know, but how many people click on spam email?
Must be some, or they wouldn't keep doing it…

For I can raise no money by vile means. —Julius Caesar > Act IV, scene III

phoxis on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

phoxis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:38:30 +0000

Advertisement is needed in free blogs so that the hosting organization can pay the bills, but if there is no such needs then i personally do not like ads in the blog for some extra money, even it will give me money directly. This simply spoils the webpage. I support a separate add page, as they have separate add channels in TV. And for Google AdSense, how many people clicks on the adds, if you do not appoint people to click them.

hillelstoler on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

hillelstoler — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:31:10 +0000

@1tess: It doesn't have to be a 'free lunch' (not that I have anything against free lunches!) - WP.com could make this a paid upgrade.

That said, I don't think it's a good idea for many reasons:

1. It's cruel - many people will be tempted, and very few will even cover the upgrade cost.

2. It will attract all kinds of spammers (and we have enough of those already, thanks!)

3. It will funnel money and clients to Google (and that's a free lunch I don't like!)

4. It will be a subsystem based on the technology of another company (I think Automattic are trying to gradually get rid of 3rd party WordPress components – but maybe I'm wrong)

5. People will start blogging for the wrong reasons – imagined profits instead of fun (resulting in frustration instead of fun!).

1tess on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

1tess — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:51:26 +0000

Also 15k or 20k per month won't generate much income. No matter what great things my dear husband thinks about my blog…

not with adsense…

1tess on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

1tess — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:36:22 +0000

@feartheseeds

1tess: I don't believe WordPress.com or Automattic are turning a profit yet, feel free to correct me but I think they're still in the venture capital stage...

I do not know who is, or is not, making money. But the OP seems to be demanding money or profit for himself for nothing. This service we enjoy is costing us nothing (plus we get this amazing forum with volunteer experts)!! Free!!!

The OP wants "Google Adsense should be alloud." Spelling errors aside, he or she is asking for a free lunch or a free ride or something free, and also wants a profit?

tellyworth on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

tellyworth — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:15:07 +0000

"I don't believe WordPress.com or Automattic are turning a profit yet"

We make enough to pay the bills.

thesacredpath on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

thesacredpath — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:17:09 +0000

As I understand it, wordpress.COM is a commercial thing separate from .ORG and Automattic. In other words, .COM has to stand on its own.

feartheseeds on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

feartheseeds — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:13:37 +0000

If you're getting 15,000 hits per week on http://dougary2112.wordpress.com/ you should definitely self-host.

1tess: I don't believe WordPress.com or Automattic are turning a profit yet, feel free to correct me but I think they're still in the venture capital stage...

"...Automattic had raised a whopping $29.5 million in a Series B Round of funding, including a strategic investment from The New York Times Co. Previous investors True Ventures, Polaris Ventures, and Radar Ventures also invested in this round."

http://gigaom.com/2008/01/22/wordpresscom-creator-raises-29m/

bookguy4 on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

bookguy4 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:59:57 +0000

"Adsense is only one part of WordPress.com's income. Most of the ad revenue comes from a relatively small percentage of blogs."

He's talking about my blog of course. *twiddles thumbs*

tellyworth on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

tellyworth — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:50:24 +0000

Adsense is only one part of WordPress.com's income. Most of the ad revenue comes from a relatively small percentage of blogs.

thesacredpath on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

thesacredpath — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:47:26 +0000

They have 2.5 million blogs or so to put ads on, and if you take into consideration the "no-ads" upgrade is only $30 per year, what does that say about how much they average?

And they have blogs hosted here that get hundreds of thousands of hits each month, so even at a small percentage of click though's that is still quite a good number.

bookguy4 on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

bookguy4 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:45:54 +0000

Likewise, adding money would kinda ruin it. :)

1tess on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

1tess — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:36:35 +0000

On the other hand:
how does WordPress.Com make money for hosting so many blogs for free?

(just really wondering because when I try to explain it to someone…
well, it makes little sense.)

thesacredpath on "Google Adsense should be alloud."

thesacredpath — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:10:45 +0000

@tellyworth, I try to explain that to web clients all the time and there is little chance of it getting through. They all have $$$ in their eyes and see themselves having places on the French Riviera and in the Caribbean and their own jets (slight exaggeration).

Some people make a little money, but the vast majority get a $100 check every 12-24 months if they are lucky.

There is no free lunch.