I am wondering how we can add a donate button as an Indian resident now that PayPal has changed their rules for India? I don’t see any donate button option in my PayPal account.

Thanks!

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If you offer value, and dont really have a solid monetization plan, this might well be the ideal plan to help you cover a little bit of the expenses.

@Ruchi, you are welcome

@Madhur, it’s just not for free software/plugins. Sometimes great coding/blogging tips can fetch you money as well. Yes, in this part of the world we generally do not donate for any service that comes free

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@Lax, as I mentioned in the above comment, if the users are provided with plain good content (and not ads) there’s nothing wrong in putting a ‘Donate’ button. But it may be ridiculous if somebody has a lot of ads, even popups and want to accept donations further.

@H’woodcasino, Got your point… Yes, sometimes to push a cause further – e.g. certain open source idea – one (or those who buy that idea) may contribute as well.

@Kim, absolutely… If somebody has been struggling with a technical or software problem and one of our posts has been extremely helpful to him in sorting out the same, why not donate? If he had taken professional help, probably that would have cost him $100 or $200. So it’s just not for plugins, themes and coded software alone.

@Yoginder, agreed. I must add for ‘useful and consumable’ content.

@Dennis, thank you for your views. You may be right. On business and professional blogs, it may be redundant as anyhow they may be generating huge income even otherwise.

@Ramesh, yep.. it’s a personal choice. In fact, there are bigger moneymakers out there for blog. But somebody like Barbara, who doesn’t sell things or stuff advertisements on her blog, may have a donate button which is absolutely acceptable I think.

@Harish, I do not know if the plugins as such will fetch in money. I think it also depends on the readership and how a particular post or tip really helped someone.

@Harsh, exactly… It’s all about how useful the content is.

@John, yes, it would be great if we know which particular post helped people and hence is making money. This probably is the idea behind Buy me a beer plugin.

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I don’t have donate on my The Geek Stuff blog. I’m not thinking about putting one either. There are other ways to make money on blog other than donate button. For e.g. Sell your eBook etc.

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I too have donated to such things as plugin authors and the like, but no, “donation” buttons do not belong anywhere anyhow at anytime on a business type blog plastered with ads.

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