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Google Adsense/My Ads + Fanfic = ????
Sep. 25th, 2009 06:12 pmSo, 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?
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?
