Release #54

[marta]

Release #54 has gone out today.

Your Journal - Your Money/Google AdSense for Paid users

Paid users will now be able to link their LiveJournal account and a Google AdSense account in order to display ads on their journal. As a Partner website with Google Adsense, LiveJournal will not take any revenue sharing; you will receive 100% of the revenue

Comments

[bad]

faq says i need to modify my custom LJ theme for ads
what i need to modify?

[leggz]

I tried activating this and I keep getting this message in the status bar:
Current status:
Your Google AdSense account application has been submitted and is being reviewed.
It's said this for three hours+. Is this a bug or is my application really being "reviewed"?

[danceinacircle]

If you're creating a new AdSense account, it took about a week for Google to complete mine.

[leggz]

Thanks for that. : ]

[pseudohistorian]

The AdSense feature is interesting, but I'm not sure how many people will be interested in actually signing up, since (it sounds like) you'd need to have a very popular journal to even meet AdSense's own payment threshold, and people might not want to tie an existing AdSense account into whether or not their LiveJournal account is Paid or not.

Other than that, I'm also curious for an update on the (previously announced, potential, hypothetical) release of à la carte userpics. :)

[eddax]

Couldn't find the answer to this in the FAQ: I'm a permanent user and I've managed to put the ads up on my main blog, but I also run a community blog and I'm wondering if I could also put ads up there.

[foxfirefey]

Not yet, possibly not ever.

[rose_amethyst]

I understand adsense as I have used it before but i am curious as to how it will tally up the views of a page- actually I figure it won't affect the majority of my friends list due to the fact that they generally read my posts from their friends page and rarely enter my journal. Is that included?

My music blog http://algodiferente-beautifulnoise.blogspot.com counts the views to the page and how many clicks per ad.

[foxfirefey]

Only your own journal pages are included; people reading your posts on their friends page won't be seeing your ads. You could possibly combat that by putting most of your entries' content under cuts, so people will click through to the entry page on your journal.