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This post has been edited. There has been more adsense news posted to the forum.
afasios Member June 11th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Great News! WordPress is cooperating with Google Adsense and is going to permit ads to its bloggers in wordpress.com.
That’s what Matt Mullenweg told in an interview to a greek newspaper [kathimerini] on Sunday. [Matt visited Greece 10 days ago to participate in the 1st Greek Blogger Camp at the island of Ios.]
You can read Matt’s interview here Η συνέντευξη του Matt Mullenweg στην Καθημερινή [unfortunately in Greek], BUT you can listen to him [in english] downloading the two parts interview from the Net-Box in the left sidebar here: http://tsimitakis.wordpress.com
Some impatience out there? I’ m translating from greek [sorry for any mistakes]:
Matt: “In addition, we ‘re working with Google Adsense and we’re going to permit to the users to host ads and earn money from their blogs. We’re trying to find a way that will permit especially to the users of WordPress.com to earn more money than the money they could earn in any other platform”.
And then there’s this post by Matt that seems to contemplate advertising in the near future as well.
What do you think about adsense advertising on wordpress.com blogs?
Do you love it or do you hate it?
@tt, it is an interesting theory, but I’m not seeing enough space in the themes that I use for a banner to appear. I think that if an ad were somehow inserted into a space, it would likely enlarge the space for the inserted material. In other words, I don’t think the white space would have to be reserved. I am linked here by my blog that uses k2 (as recommended by you). Another blog I use is Governing which uses the theme called, Light. Neither theme seems to be a product of WordPress. Light is by Stephen Reinhardt and k2 seems to be made by friends of WordPress, but the authors have their own web site. Also, a friend of mine is attempting to use Drupal, and many of these same themes are available for him. My impression is that the use of the white space is probably a matter of design.
While ads on wordpress.com are possible, I suspect that everyone here is fairly touchy about the subject. It seems that the bosses have taken a few liberties, but with great caution. Matt wrote: http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/09/06/on-ads/
Do you have any other reasons to think there is a commercial plot afoot?
There has been more news posted to the forum.
afasios Member June 11th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
hi tt,
hello from beautiful downtown squamish! been on the road but now back home – or at least where i was born… thanks for your “inspired” comment on the forum and over on my blog.
- ian
can you point me to a specific example of this? i’m not seeing anything on this blog (perhaps i should be logged out).
On this theme, the extra space is only between the title and the body of the text in posts. I have been told that on other themes there are spaces elsewhere too (between paragraghs and at the end of the posts).
Personally, I’d like to keep my blog ad-free.
it’s just a little margin. if it were for adsense, it would have to be a separate div.
@icedmocha
We are not able to keep our blogs ad-free. At least, not in the sense that they haven’t been so for the past year. But IMO the fact that blogger initiatited advertising has been available only to the few with VIP accounts at wp.com means we don’t have the spammer and splogger density other blog hosted communities have.
@adam
So I’m over-reacting. Thanks for the correction and to Robert too.
I hope WordPress.com keeps Ads parasites out of my blog, or at least I could choose to kick out them
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I’m new here. I couldn’t find a place to put ad code in WordPress. The theme I’m using has a text widget. It would be ideal to place a vertical ad bar in the text widget but it gets stripped. Where can you put ad code?
You cannot put ad code on a WordPress.com blog. It’s against the terms of service.