Comments on: WordPress.com Free Hosting is NOT for Affiliate Marketers

By: Forrest Pierson

Forrest Pierson — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:20:14 +0000

Hi Pat,
Sorry, I’m bit of a newbie here. Just want to be clear: Since I have Just Host for my blog hosting and I installed WordPress with Fantastico, I should be OK to affiliate with AdSense and Amazon?
Wordpress doesn’t have the control to bring down my site in this particular situation, only direct or free WordPress hosting is affected?

Thanks,

-Forrest

By: Soo How

Soo How — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:14:53 +0000

Good awareness for people using free hosting blog. IMO, Is always good to self-hosted wordpress blog because lots of customization you can do with it and without much limitation.

By: Steve Dave

Steve Dave — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:59:13 +0000

thanks for your article..

WP hosting is just for newbies.. but for someone who is serious in making good money online.. I won’t recommend WP Hosting..

By: Howy

Howy — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:46:47 +0000

A similar thing happened to me some time ago. I had months worth of aff content on my wp blog and they earned me hundreds each month. They didn’t suspend my blog, but they redirected all my aff links to one of their TOS Pages. So, yeah, if you wanna use free blogs for affiliate marketing, I hope you will visit this page before you actually do it.

By: Vincentas Grinius

Vincentas Grinius — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:29:01 +0000

Actually as free web hosting owner I can say one thing. You can try our service and ignore wordpress.com. For those who just started their business we will help to setup the wordpress blog and other technical things. All marketers are welcome…Hope this comment will be not treated as spam, cause I think it is more information related. Thank you.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:28:04 +0000

I want to give a good review of webs.com, though. I had a competitor making false claims that I was sending unsolicited email in an attempt to get my sites shut down. Hey, I don’t even use email marketing, strictly search engines!

Anyway, webs.com sent me a notice to quit spamming or my sites would be shut down and I notified them of the situation. I appreciate good customer service. I think they are the only service that communicates with their customers.

By: PLR ebooks

PLR ebooks — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:00:54 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. Why risks ourselves with these free hosting services and cry at the end? We should be very extra cautious.

By: SEO Backlinks

SEO Backlinks — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:36:39 +0000

I agree with Howell. WordPress is the best platform to get your feet wet when your in any affiliate market business. I personally enjoy it more since google likes to rank it better

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:48:04 +0000

I had the same thing happen to me with Weebly. Although they say they allow links and advertising they shut me down without notice. I had set up several sites on individual accounts to see which worked before I upgraded to a paid site and I assume that may have been it but they don’t tell you what you did wrong or even give you notice that your sites have been removed.

I didn’t know if my sites had been hacked or something so I kept emailing them for a week to find out what happend before I got a response and all they told me was pretty much that my sites were blocked and any other accounts I had would be blocked and I need to quit spamming them with emails.

I lost quite a bit of money that week my sites were down.

Also to note, many of these sites let you upgrade to a paid site but they can still cancel you and won’t give a refund.

Weebly should also be off limits to anyone who wants control of their own site.

By: Juana Gillum

Juana Gillum — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:41:06 +0000

Thanks for the warning on this one. I started a WordPress blog about a month ago and will be moving to another host. Your advice is so valuable for someone like myself just starting out!