{"id":3711,"date":"2009-08-20T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T03:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2016-02-25T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T20:53:07","slug":"thinking-about-using-that-paypal-donate-button-to-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/thinking-about-using-that-paypal-donate-button-to-your-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about Using a PayPal “Donate” Button on Your Blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You've probably seen many sites on which webmasters try to increase their incomes by adding PayPal Donation<\/a> buttons to their sidebar.<\/p>\n

This is particularly true of programmers who give their software away for free – and ask only that you donate so that they may continue to improve their programs or create new ones.<\/p>\n

There's no problem with asking for money.<\/p>\n

Where there IS a problem however, is in using the word “Donate”.<\/h3>\n

Sometime back, I was talking to a fellow affiliate marketer who first had his PayPal account frozen, and then ultimately lost all the revenue therein, simply due to the fact that he had a PayPal Donation button on his site.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Because “donations” are reserved for recognized charities.<\/h3>\n

My friend's business wasn't a charity and Paypal took serious issue with the fact that he was respresenting himself as such by using the word ‘Donate'.<\/p>\n

That's not to say that you can't accept PayPal payments from your blog readers.<\/p>\n

What you can use is a text link or button graphic that reads ‘Buy me a beer<\/em>‘, ‘Buy me a coffee<\/em>‘, “Support our Blog<\/em>” or anything else that comes to your mind — just don't use the word ‘donate'.<\/p>\n

So, tell me, are you going to be scrambling to get rid of your Donate buttons now?<\/p>\n

Did you find this post informative and useful? If so, please share it with others! If you have a comment, question or suggestion, please leave a comment below!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cheers,
\n\"sig-ros\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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