At the beginning of this month we reported that WordPress.com (the hosted version of WordPress) had inked a deal with Federated Media to bring ads to bloggers on WordPress.com. It looks like they haven’t wasted any time; Jon Burke announced yesterday the release of WordAds, the official name of the new advertising service. In the brief press release he described the need for a “better” advertising service for bloggers and even took a swipe at Google’s AdSense:
We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn’t terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google’s AdSense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad.
Scandalous! The service is starting out in beta, and they are asking that potential partners fill out an application. Prerequisites for the beta include having a domain name and having your blog set to publicly visible.
What do you guys think? Could it really be better than AdSense? I also find it pretty interesting that the name of the service is so similar to Google’s AdWords, but I suppose it fits the naming convention.
is this posible for sites which are not english?
Here I tried it for my WordPress blog We Sigmas. But could not do so. I have also a wordpress hosted free blog- http://seocheck.wordpress.com/. But again WordAds does not work there.
Why should I buy a custom domain to avail the feature when I have paid blogs hosted in WordPress?
thanks..
i’m asking if there is an explain
Haven’t really tried WordAds since all of my sites are currently using Google’s advertising platforms. But its a great opportunity for bloggers to at least generate some revenue for their blogs while trying to increase their readerbase and improve the writeups on their blogs. It’s a good start.