Google Adsense/My Ads + Fanfic = ????

[custom_magnum]

So, Livejournal has a new ad feature, do they. It's a rather interesting prospect, especially with all those “success” stories about people who are able to live off of ads from Google Adsense, Google's “Put ads on your site relative to your site's content and pay you money for it!” And now it's available for paid Livejournal accounts. So wouldn't this be a good prospect? Not only can a user get paid for doing memes on their journal, but actually having ads on it should make updates more frequent for the blogs in question with the ads, shouldn't they?

It should, yes. But there's one very significant reason why as of yet this blog has not had the My Ads enabled. And that is fanfiction.

Fanfiction has always been supposedly about writing about stories and worlds that the writer cares about, for no profit at all. And yet, by placing Google Adsense ads on a site that hosts fanfiction and have it not be part of the cost for getting free webspace on a server somewhere... isn't that what we'd be doing? Making a profit off something that we'd always claim we were doing for free and not trying to make a profit.

And yet, Fanfiction.net has ads and have had ads for a while. But unlike Livejournal, Fanfiction.net does not give users the option to pay for space on their site and then put on ads to make money.

And fanfiction is probably going to be the reason that the ads that are soon to grace this blog are going to be because I'm downgrading to a plus account, rather than me risking a massive explosion by putting ads that I'd make money from on a place where I post fanfiction.

Of course, I've thought about using Google Adsense for eventually original fiction distributed online on a site before Livejournal added that feature, so hey, I may end up getting a new journal in the future just for that to see how well it could work out. Or maybe I'll be lucky and be able to get it released as a real book. Who knows?

Comments

[ajora.livejournal.com]

FF.net uses ads to pay for bandwidth usage. It does use up a lot of bandwidth, and did even when people were donating money. Otherwise, it doesn't actually make money from users that isn't utilized in keeping the site going.

A new journal may work for that purpose, if you choose to go that route. But, I'm old-fashioned and think you should wait for a book deal or something.

Did you ever get that problem with your computer resolved, btw?

[custom-magnum.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see why Fanfiction.net needs them, due to bandwith issues, but Lj's different, especially with the "get paid for ads option".

Well, a book deal would be awesome, although with what I actually have written that's original fic so far... I'm kinda not sure if there'd actually be enough of an audience for a successful book deal. Especially with the story being all structured like episodes of a television serious and being 8000+ words in the first chapter alone and NOT being where I planned to end chapter one. Of course, since I DO plan on writing it all before posting anyway, I can always fix it later I guess.

And yeah. Turns out that with the new arrangement of my room I don't NEED a wireless keyboard or mouse with it hooked up to the TV, so I just bought a VGA cable for my netbook.

[ajora.livejournal.com]

LJ... well. LJ is LJ and determined to ignore this whole fandom thing under the belief that it doesn't really matter (as, say, Strikethrough and other kerfuffles have shown). LJ's current administration is more interested in making money only than Brad was.

Ah! I see. Whatever works for you, really. May I just say one thing on the subject, though? If Twilight and Eragon could be published, ANYTHING can be published. You have a fighting chance!

Good to hear :).

[custom-magnum.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's true.

... That's a very good point. Of course, most of my readings been done online for a good number of years now, which could cloud me view just a bit. ... I really should get around to finishing Hitchhiker's Guide and The Historian. I've had the books for like, two years now.