The simple answer to the often asked question of whether or not you can advertise or monetize your WordPress.com blog is: NO.
Unless you are a VIP hosted member of WordPress.com. You can read about the WordPress VIP Hosting Services here. Unless you are a VIP member, there is no way for you to advertise on your WordPress.com blog. Thing twice before you consider VIP hosting, however. It carries a hefty $600 set up fee and $300 per month to carry the VIP status. That may sound like a lot - but, objectively speaking, it’s worth it if you have a blog that does the kind of traffic they’re talking about. I did a post on the VIP hosted services previously - have a look.
In the meantime, to answer the question - no, you cannot advertise on your WordPress.com blog unless you are a VIP hosted member. That means no Amazon or Google ads - no participatin in the Text Link Ads program, or AdBright or Auction Ads. Hopefully, in the future, we’ll see WordPress.com allow their users to monetize a little bit.
seems kind of silly they don’t even google text link ads. that’s one thing i miss from moving from blogger. i love everything else except the ability to advertise a little.
Well, check out my blog! You will see that I am advertising on a wordpress.com blog! Forget VIP Status… All that you need to do is to is invent and manufacture a product, create a shopping cart website: www.arthroleve.com, film a TV commercial, post the commercial on youtube.com, add your youtube commercial to vpod, hire a fulfillment and customer service company… and for the low price of about half a million dollars, you too can be advertising for free on wordpress.com!
oh, here’s my blog site: http://jmorrow50.wordpress.com/
Note the vpod with two TV commercials!