WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Monetizing the blog http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Monetizing the blog en Mon, 20 May 2013 02:56:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-733208 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:47:06 +0000 timethief 733208@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raincoaster

I'm going to shout to the skies if I don't qualify. Especially considering my drop in traffic is due to WP.com's changes in the tag pages.

Seconded! Also note that I have a two and 1/2 octave range. Yes siree I can shatter wine glasses.

]]> raincoaster on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732772 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:24:30 +0000 raincoaster 732772@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ask Johnny Depp. He was talking about Kate Moss's ass when he mentioned the High Water Booty.

]]> teamoyeniyi on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732765 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:57:39 +0000 teamoyeniyi 732765@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Does "booty" have a different meaning in Canada?

]]> raincoaster on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732761 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:49:50 +0000 raincoaster 732761@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm going to shout to the skies if I don't qualify. Especially considering my drop in traffic is due to WP.com's changes in the tag pages.

Also for the record I have a "High end booty." Just in case that needed to be said.

]]> johnnytesting on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732760 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:48:58 +0000 johnnytesting 732760@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Original, high quality content? If you want to take advantage of the coming ad service you should probably start stealing photos of kittens.

]]> justjennifer on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732747 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:10:28 +0000 justjennifer 732747@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yep, I have a post about it on WPcomMaven, as does tt, and until and unless there's some official word, then we're all just guessing.

]]> thesacredpath on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732740 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:57:52 +0000 thesacredpath 732740@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You know and on the post by Matt, this is the most interesting bit.

...will give high-end bloggers access to run advertising from FM...

That to me says high traffic sites with original, high quality, content. This isn't going to be something for the masses from how it sounds.

]]> thesacredpath on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732738 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:46:55 +0000 thesacredpath 732738@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ As a web designer, this is one of the things I dislike having come up, and it will at some point come up because a client has done a webinar or attended a seminar at the local Holiday Inn on getting rich off internet advertising.

For us 99%'ers, it simply does not happen.

]]> auxclass on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732737 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:44:22 +0000 auxclass 732737@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And most of the people that cry the loudest about ads - when you look at their site they are lucky to get 800 page views or 200 people a month - fine potential for ad traffic looks like to me.

]]> teamoyeniyi on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732726 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:28:58 +0000 teamoyeniyi 732726@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Planning a holiday in Tahiti soon then, I see?

]]> raincoaster on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732721 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:24:54 +0000 raincoaster 732721@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've had over four million hits on my WP.com blog. Since the introduction of this program the COMBINED earnings of it and my external blogs have added up to $55.

]]> teamoyeniyi on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732706 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:02:26 +0000 teamoyeniyi 732706@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't think I want any ads, permitted or not. Unless I am personally selling something, which I am not yet.

]]> thesacredpath on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732694 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:46:40 +0000 thesacredpath 732694@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ With adcents (intentionally spelled that way) don't quit your day job. Most bloggers I know are lucky to pay their hosting costs running adcents.

There will, it appears, be some advertising options for bloggers here at wordpress.com in the first quarter of 2012. There just isn't anything now.

]]> raincoaster on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732674 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:12:57 +0000 raincoaster 732674@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Go ahead and get an independently-hosted WP site and do what you like.

]]> raincoaster on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732650 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:15:49 +0000 raincoaster 732650@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My end is the VERY highest.

]]> timethief on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732648 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:03:52 +0000 timethief 732648@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oops! I forgot to mention Matt's blog post on the "Federated Media deal which will give high-end bloggers access to run advertising from FM. ..."

]]> timethief on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732647 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:59:59 +0000 timethief 732647@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The article concludes with:

Federated’s ad options will become available to WordPress.com bloggers starting in the first quarter of next year.

However, as we members have not read anything in the WordPress.com blog as yet we can only point to existing ToS policies and support documentation.

]]> thesacredpath on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732616 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:07:30 +0000 thesacredpath 732616@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is no telling when that will be implemented and what the details of it will be.

]]> robthebruce76 on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732613 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:59:47 +0000 robthebruce76 732613@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Did this rule not recently change? I've read WordPress signed a deal to allow ads soon.

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/federated-expands-long-tail-ad-empire-wordpress-135925

]]> timethief on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732317 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:07:23 +0000 timethief 732317@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No you cannot. WordPress.com has been running advertising on our free hosted blogs since 2006. Many bloggers do not know this because despite the fact they ticked the box required to get a free blog, they did not read the ToS. Many also do not read features page, or advertising entry in the support documents after registering their username and blog(s). Also note that as the ads do not display to us when we are logged in, and as many use browsers with ad blockers when logged out, they may not realize they are there at all. The only way to get rid of all advertising on our free hosted WordPress.com blogs is to purchase an annually renewable No-Ads upgrade.

In a nutshell no blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed on free hosted wordpress.COM blogs. E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM

The advertising exceptions noted in support documentation are for high traffic blogs that qualify for and are accepted into the Ad Control program, and for extremely high traffic blogs that qualify and are accepted into the paid VIP hosting program.
Reference links:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://vip.wordpress.com/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

]]> miniserials on "Monetizing the blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/monetizing-the-blog#post-732316 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:04:07 +0000 miniserials 732316@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sir,
Can I monetize my blog, with Ad Sense or placing ads on it?

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