LiveJournal has never struck me as the blogging platform that users go to for serious commercial blogging.
Nonetheless, the site, which was launched all the way back in 1999 and has been through multiple owners in recent years, is now allowing its users to make money through Google AdSense.
The program – called “Your Journal – Your Money” – lets LiveJournal users insert ads into their blog and keep 100 percent of the earnings, after Google takes their cut.
However, users will need to be paid LiveJournal members in order to participate ($19.95 per year), meaning they’ll need to at least generate enough traffic and ad clicks to pay their membership fee before they turn a profit.