Not surprisingly, it looks like WordPress.com in their attempt to be as spam free as possible has reminded everyone that PayPerPost advertisements are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs.
WordPress.com’s Terms of Service are very clear about this, and even highlight the important text in blue.
the Content is not spam, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
WordPress is trying to create a quality service and quality brand, and they believe that PayPerPost is only a way to try to game search engines. So, if you want to use such a service, head somewhere else because at this point, WordPress.com doesn’t want you to post it there.
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16 Responses
Elliott C. Back
November 13th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
1WordPress.com is what I’d call the bully of online blogging solutions…
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November 14th, 2006 at 3:24 am
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Malin
November 14th, 2006 at 3:31 am
3I guess it will be the same for us non-service Wordpress users as well…
brian t
November 14th, 2006 at 6:01 am
4Is this some kind of problem? If I hear the word “monetize” once again I’m going to hurl… 8x
Ajay D'Souza
November 14th, 2006 at 6:32 am
5Interesting development. When was TOS put up?
So that means ReviewMe too is out as well.
@Malin, are you talking about the full WordPress software? What you do on your own space shouldn’t be an issue.
Malin
November 14th, 2006 at 6:57 am
6@Ajay - You never know what they can come up with these days. But I got a little too carried away there I have to admit.
Ajay D'Souza
November 14th, 2006 at 7:55 am
7@Malin, that is true.
But, if they put something like that, then they may see an influx of users moving away from a good blogging software.
Gerard @ Interweb World
November 16th, 2006 at 2:48 am
8Given the heat Matt took from the WordPress community a while back over link spamming on the wordpress.org domain, I’m not surprised they’re finely tuned to this type of strategy.
Malin takes the award for this year’s biggest WordPress conspiracy story, by the way!
Malin
November 16th, 2006 at 3:51 am
9@Gerard - Thanks for the award, my first (and probably the only one) this year!
Ajay D'Souza
November 16th, 2006 at 7:21 am
10Which story?
Fake Rake
November 17th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
11@Malin,
You do know that Wordpress is GPL licensed, so that’s not something you need to worry about, right? If they ever decide to change the license to restrict what you can do, anyone who wants to can just publish their own version of WordPress based on the current version without those restrictions.
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Myla
November 11th, 2007 at 8:37 am
15Oh well, too bad for those who dream of monetizing their wordpress.com blogs.
I honestly think it is “not nice” for Wordpress to do this. If they worry about spamming, they could have given less severe rules about advertising on wordpress.com blogs.
Nowadays, more and more bloggers realise that they can get paid by blogging and I see more and more bloggers leaving wordpress.com
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