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1. twinmummyanddaddy
   Member
   Feb 13, 2013, 8:33 PM

   Hello,

   Very new to wordpress. Before I dive right in would like to know if I can have advertising wordpress.com with a premium theme or do I have to go down the wordpress.org line and buy hosting etc if I want to include ads on my blog?

   Thanks for your help :)

   The blog I need help with is twinmumanddad.wordpress.com.

2. timethief
   Member
   Feb 13, 2013, 11:55 PM

   No you cannot run your own advertising and there is no upgrade aside from a VIP hosting upgrade that you can purchase that allows it on a free hosted WordPress.com blog.

   There is only one advertising program called WordAds at WordPress.com and it’s for blogs on their own domains. Aside from a blog being accepted into WordAds http://www.wordads.co/ no blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work or products 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. Paid content and/or sponsored content is not allowed.
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
   http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
   http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

   On free hosted WordPress.com blog we can use a contact form and/or a PayPal donation button for sale of only products or services created or provided by ourselves.
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

   If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising, affiliate links, paid or sponsored content 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/
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/

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