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.
Sherifer921
bloger is best in google adsense
Chris
True – it’s in Google’s interest that you use Adsense as they get their cut along the way…
Best Free Adsense tips
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.
danilodelizia
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
Tibor
Cool!
Chakrapanye
What is captcha code?, pls provide me captcha code codes or plugin, Thanks in advance.
Paanchajanyadharaaya
Nice post! GA is also my biggest earning. However, its not a much.
Crystal Signature
“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
Crystal Signature
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)
Kassie
Wow! Great thniigkn! JK
Commonov
Indonesia as well google doesn’t support my language…
Robert Wensman
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.
nicolas
I didn’t know all these tips for adsense. Thx for sharing them with everybody, this will hopefully improve my earnings.
Carol
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.
Jennifer
couldnt agree more. you hit it right on.
Chris
What a great set of comments. Thanks all.