Comments on: Affiliate Marketers Banned From Wordpress.com

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niche socializer review — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:26:41 +0000

I’ve just got banned from wordpress for this reason. I didn’t even see anything in the TOS about affiliate marketing and still can’t, but thats what they told me when I emailed them. I was only using wordpress for this affiliate stuff because it was recommended. I can’t beleive they don’t allow it, its disgraceful. I hope blogger is different. I’ve spend ages working on my blogs and it was just a waste of time!! I hate wordpress now. Everyone should know about this before they join

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By: Abu

Abu — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:34:18 +0000

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By: Holger

Holger — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:40:26 +0000

my wordpress.com blog was also banned finanznews.wordpress.com
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By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:19:32 +0000

Greetings. Thanks for the plugin. I’m going to play with it a bit. The Free WP-Affiliate plugin brings my blog down when I activate it. I found yours with a google search for “wordpress google tracking”. Thanks.

BTW, One of my websites was banned from wordpress.com. I don’t host there, I only use the API key to track my stats and Askimet spam. I think I made an error by registering 2 sites with the same username/password. Any thoughts on getting back in the good books. My wordpress.com account says suspended.

Cheers
Brian

By: @domainpubber

@domainpubber — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:21:51 +0000

Hi Ron,

The report of wordpress.com blogs being banned came from the source linked to in this post; if this can be confirmed as not true please let us know as we do not host any sites with wordpress.com and cannot verify their policy on pure affiliate marketing sites. We are only looking at what others have reported on this topic but in general using wordpress.com to host affiliate marketing sites is probably not a great idea anyway.

Also, if you use Wordpress to do affiliate marketing I don’t think you’d have the option to run a plugin such as WPMarketer or WP Affiliate Pro. If anybody has tried this I’d love to know whether its even possible.

You can see our comparison of WPMarketer with the competitors, including WP Affiliate Pro here on our blog. We think WPMarketer is superior in terms of features and certainly since we offer it free under GPL, a huge advantage you and your readers will get by using it is not having to pay $97. WP Affiliate Pro does not support Google Adwords Conversion tracking and also does not support image and JavaScript ad types, both of which are features WPMarketer already supports.

Since we first released WPMarketer in early December we have updated it 3 times already and will continue to release new features and bug fixes regularly. I do not know whether WP Affiliate Pro has even been updated for Wordpress 2.7 yet.

Our only disadvantage may be the fact that we have announced today that WPMarketer will only run on servers with PHP 5.0 or higher; a decision we have made in order to provide functionality we can not support on PHP 4.x servers unfortunately.

Regards,
Steve

By: Affiliate Marketer Ron Davies

Affiliate Marketer Ron Davies — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:09:06 +0000

Wordpress.com has not banned any marketers as far as I know, and I am hooked up there. I have sent in a request for information to Kevin, and he has assured me this is not the case.

Can you tell us specifically which blogs this was?

Thanks guys.

PS: I am on Wordpress Affiliate Pro. How does your software compare, and should I consider switching? This is an important question, as I will be mailing my readership shortly with my recommendation, and so far WP Affiliate Pro has it.

Please advise.

Ron