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How To Monetize a Wordpress.COM Blog

by waken
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Is there anyway to monetize a Wordpress.com. It says that they will be allowing own ads soon but while they have not, how to monetize blogs that were built at Wordpress.com?

Thanks.
#blog #monetize #wordpresscom
  • Profile picture of the author Charles Washington
    They will remove the blog as soon as they find out you have put ads on it. They are picky. If they even suspect your blog has commercial intent, they will remove it.

    I dont know why they cant be like blogger...
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    • Profile picture of the author Eric Lorence
      Use those blogs to drive traffic to your own sales pages.

      But as far as ads, and aff links- they will delete the blog when they find it.

      That said, there are marketers that get away with it because they use subtlety, and not blatant marketing tactics. And they sell in a niche that is highly focused, and not in a high spam category.
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  • Profile picture of the author Graham Maddison
    Goto hostgator and get all you need to upload your own self hosted wordpress blog.

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  • Profile picture of the author waken
    Thanks guys!

    I'll check Blogger then...
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  • Profile picture of the author ramkarthik
    I don't know if this would work.

    Doesn't wordpress.com allow the bloggers to give free reports for download? And in the report, can't the blogger include affiliate links?

    I haven't used WordPress.Com in my life. I use WordPress.Org. This just came to my mind and I thought of asking.
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    • Profile picture of the author Eric Lorence
      Originally Posted by ramkarthik View Post

      I don't know if this would work.

      Doesn't wordpress.com allow the bloggers to give free reports for download? And in the report, can't the blogger include affiliate links?

      I haven't used WordPress.Com in my life. I use WordPress.Org. This just came to my mind and I thought of asking.
      If your paying for the hosting, such as at wordpress.org, you essentially have the same freedom with your site as you would hosted anywhere else.

      In order to host a file such as a PDF, you will have to pay for hosting, or at least a file sharing service such as S3.
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  • Profile picture of the author Odhinn
    I had a Wordpress.com blog shut down because I linked to a page that linked to a clickbank salespage. Ridiculous! That site is great for giving some link juice to your articles and other promotional pages though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Seth Stewart
    Is there any reason why you just didn't go with a WP.org blog instead, or why you couldn't just transfer your content now? My memory is that they make it easy to shift your whole gig from one to the other if you open a .org blogsite.
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  • Profile picture of the author David
    I use wordpress.com blogs as place holders.

    I make them to take up space on the serps page.
    the more links that I get my clients in the top ten, the less available space for my clients competitors.

    The majority of people using wordpress.com are not aware of this tactic.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlbertF
    I believe that Wordpress's main theme is quality, so they stand by it by not allowing people who use "wordpress" under their names to use ads. Just my opinion and Blogger wants adsense because of course it is made from Google and Google profits from the clicks.
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    • Profile picture of the author dndoseller
      Originally Posted by Matt Guerrero View Post

      Get your own Wordpress blog in your own domain
      Amen, if you can't afford or risk that then you shouldn't bother with IM.
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      • Profile picture of the author marketguru
        Originally Posted by dndoseller View Post

        Amen, if you can't afford or risk that then you shouldn't bother with IM.
        this man speaks the truth ^^^^
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