Is WordPress.com 100% Ad-Free?

Some of you might be aware of this fact but most you must be still assuming that WordPress.com does not display any advertisements on your blog. Well, that’s not so! WordPress.com does display Google Ads on your blog but that’s not very often. However, the advertisements are not shown to regular readers, due to which neither you nor your readers might have noticed any advertisement on your personal blog that’s hosted on WordPress.com.

In a recent post on WordPress.com blog, Matt announced an optional upgrade which enables users to go even more Ad-Free. Even most of the WordPress users were surprised to hear that WordPress.com displays advertisement and were confused about this upgrade. Here is a comment from their user, quoting from the post:

snape: I still can’t understand the main topic. Does a free blog wordpress.com automatically have ads? But if so, why does my blog don’t have that ads? I understand if ads on a personal or nonporfit blog can be so annoying and WP offer a paid upgrade to remove the ads. But I can’t understand WP offer a paid upgrade to remove an unexist ads. I’m confused.

Reply from author:

Matt: snape, all blogs on WordPress.com may show ads sometimes for the past 2 years now, including yours. The ads are shown very rarely and not to regular visitors, so you will probably never see one. Even though the ads were unobtrusive, some people didn’t want them at all, and this upgrade enables that. It’s completely optional, and if you aren’t worried about the low-level of ads that have been shown for the past 2 years you don’t need this upgrade.

Read more about WordPress Ads at: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/on-ads/

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