Affiliate Marketers Should Not Use WordPress.Com Free Hosting

Although WordPress clearly state their terms and conditions and warn affiliates in many of their documents against using WordPress.com for advertising purposes many are still disregarding the warnings.

If you are one of those who thinks a free blog is too good a deal to pass up and insist on setting up your blog on WordPress.com, here is one very good reason NOT to do so, and I quote WordPress.com.

 

Advertising Policy Quote

Blogs that violate our advertising policy or fall into one of the following categories are not allowed on WordPress.com:

Scraper blogs: SEO blogs: Affiliate marketing blogs: Warez blogs: Automated blogs:

Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category.

If you need more proof of their determination to uphold this policy, then read the WordPress.com Support Forums where they state that this rule will only be waived in very, very special circumstances.

In addition to AdSense-type ads, please do not use the following services on your blog: sponsored / paid posts including PayPerPost, ReviewMe, and Smorty; affiliate / referral links to the following domains: usercash, clickbank, clickhop, cashrocks, payingcash; clicktrackers (and any similar) and any promotion of the “I made a million on the internet and so can you” type of advertising (i.e. MLM, network marketing, cash gifting, etc.). Paid or sponsored post content is also prohibited.

Ignore WordPress And Perish

So what happens if you decide to "have a go" anyway?

Well, if you have any (that’s more than zero) affiliate links on a WordPress.com blog and their search engine picks them up (which it will) then no mater how much work you may have put into the blog and no matter how many pages you might have posted and no matter how many years you may have had the blog, YOUR BLOG WILL BE SHUT DOWN AND THE DATA REMOVED FROM THE WORDPRESS SYSTEM.

Also, you probably will not get the opportunity to reclaim your work. It will be gone forever.

Moral Of The Story

So the moral of the story is:

• Don’t use WordPress.com for your affiliate websites.

If you want to make money online as an affiliate, register a domain and get a proper hosting account with a reputable company like JustHost, iPage or any of the hosting providers in the links below. Not only will you get a better service but you’ll also get a FREE domain name anyway.

• Don’t risk your hard work, money and your affiliate business for the sake of a $20 or $30 per year.