Thu 11 Sep 2008
After several hosting hiccups in the last few months, I have been considering moving back to the free version of Wordpress available at Wordpress.com.
(The hosting service will remain nameless for now as they have been responsive in fixing the problems, if only they’d prevent them happening…).
As you’ll see on the sidebar, I have been carrying out an advertising experiment first using Pubmatic and now just with Google Adsense which means that for the first time this blog features a strip of (hopefully discreet) ads. I’d like to keep the experiment going on the free Wordpress.com service, but reading the Wordpress.com FAQs it seems that Google Adsense/Adwords are not permitted.
That’s not entirely true, as those using the VIP service are allowed to include ads. They do of course pay $500/month for the privilege and only if they are deemed famous enough to be accepted into the VIP club. Wordpress themselves do also occassionally use their own Google Adsense on your blog.
My advice would be to those looking to make money via Wordpress blogging is to build up your audience using the free Wordpress blog, while forking out the c.$15 a year for the domain and $10 a year for the domain mapping service. Once your blog reaches sufficient scale to justify using an Adsense or equivalent service, then upgrade to a hosting package. The cheaper hosting packages do run the risk of going down should your blog get Slashdotted or Dugg, so it pays to do your research into your bandwidth allocations.
Related posts:
- Moving back from hosted to free Wordpress.com
- Adding Flickr photos to a hosted Wordpress blog
- Google Adsense trial
- Google Adsense Link Units vs Ad Units
- Social bookmarking with Wordpress
September 15th, 2008 at 10:40 am
[...] explained in the previous post, I was considering moving back from a hosted version of Wordpress to the free version. This blog is [...]
September 20th, 2008 at 2:59 am
bloger is best in google adsense
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:38 am
True - it’s in Google’s interest that you use Adsense as they get their cut along the way…
October 14th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
If you want to make it as affordable as possible, you can start with WP self hosted.
It will cost you around $9 per year and for the hosting you may find some hosting packages from $1 per month.
Later, you could invest in an hosting service like BlueHost for $7 per month for an unlimited number of sites/blogs hosted.
That means you’re already making profits in each of your blogs brings you at least $8 per month.
To Your Success!
AO.
October 19th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I found the solution!! I’m moving to wblogin.com … it offers the same service and you can also add adsense ads.. And it’s for Free
November 6th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Cool!
December 31st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
[...] Adding Google Adsense on Wordpress.com The painful move away from hosted Wordpress and then back again, did at least have some benefits. A [...]
February 8th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
What is captcha code?, pls provide me captcha code codes or plugin, Thanks in advance.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Nice post! GA is also my biggest earning. However, it’s not a much.
April 24th, 2009 at 12:53 am
“I found the solution!! I’m moving to wblogin.com … it offers the same service and you can also add adsense ads.. And it’s for Free”
—well, although it is free, but once you checked its traffic, you probably will walk away, most of the traffic are in Austrilia:
Wblogin.com users come from these countries:
here is the link: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wblogin.com
* 27.1% Austria
* 26.5% Indonesia
* 22.3% Italy
* 14.1% United States
* 10.0% OTHER
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Wblogin.com traffic rank in other countries:
* 26,054 Austria
* 64,136 Indonesia
* 104,534 Italy
April 24th, 2009 at 12:56 am
Sorry, a typo in my reply, it’s Austria, not Australia, even in Austria, the rank is very low. I wish somebody can find a work around to post AdSense (or something like that) on WordPress.Com (not WordPress.Org)
September 13th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Indonesia as well google doesn’t support my language…
February 4th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Crystal Signature:
What are you talking about? These general statistics mean nothing for an individual blogg.
The traffic to an individual blogg is generated by getting the word out about your blog in the right forum etc. It is not the task of your blog-provider to generate the traffic, it is your job! ;-)…
Most visitors to wordpress.com where my blog is are probably english speaking, but my blog is in Swedish and have a Swedish audience anyway.
March 21st, 2010 at 3:19 pm
I didn’t know all these tips for adsense. Thx for sharing them with everybody, this will hopefully improve my earnings.
July 5th, 2010 at 7:50 am
I want to thank you for yet another fantastic post. I am always searching for great WordPress tips to recommend to my readers. Thank you for writing this tutorial . It’s just what I was trying to find. Truly amazing post.