What is needed to get a Google Adsense account approved and why is it so hard?

Lynne Level 1

July 15, 2016, 9:11 am

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What is needed to get a Google Adsense account approved and why is it so hard?

So I applied for an Adsense account at the beginning of this year when I monetized my Youtube channel and it appeared to be very easy at the time. I could see my earnings in Youtube and I was happy as can be.

Then I got an email from Google Adsense telling me I must verify my account and add some code to my website so they can check it and approve it. I happily did that and imagine my heartbreak a few days later when I got an email back telling me why website (which I have been grafting away on for 4 years) “does not provide any useful content”. OMG was I peeved off!

I then added one of my other websites, a newer one and it was also rejected for similar reasons. I added my newest one and they rejected it too saying I didn’t have enough content which was fair enough because they were right.

All this time my Youtube channel showed my earnings until my 3rd website was rejected and then everything disappeared.

Then I went with a Youtube partner that then kicked me out when SmashFund sent in a Copyright Claim … yes I know, naughty me…

Then the next day suddenly my channel is monetized and Youtube sends me an email saying my website is approved. But I never sent in another request.

I don’t know what the story is here and I have heard that loads of people have had problems with Adsense.

Does anyone know what the real story is and maybe have some tips to share with people that are struggling to get an Adsense account approved?

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Everett

Everett

Google Adsense is weird. When I first started with Google Adsense I kept getting the message that I too had low content, and they just kept sending the same email. It went on and on and on. Then I created a Youtube channel, and then reapplied for Google Adsense and I was approved. Then I added the Adsense to my websites and it worked. I think you can create a Youtube channel to bypass the website block. However, Google is always finding ways to check if a website is worthy of Adsense or not. It's very odd in the method they use to detect if your website is eligible.

9 years ago

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Lynne

Lynne

Yes I found the whole process quite strange because each time I thought I was approved they then disapproved me. I mean I was already seeing earnings in my Youtube channel... it was very frustrating and annoying.

9 years ago

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ajlancer

ajlancer

Hi Lynne thanks for your question. Honestly I should say, I am not using AdSense now. But, I was use AdSense for my blog and it was more than 8 years ago. I did not see any difficulties to get approve AdSense for my blog. In that time my blog age was 6 month only and I got approved once applied. Yes! Google always consider qualities and I hear some of blog owner, they do not get AdSense first time. But, after certain time they got it. And As per as I know some countries yet not considerable for Google AdSense.
After all my feeling, it is not too hard, if you can reach minimum quality.

Regards by Ajlancer

9 years ago

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Lynne

Lynne

Thanks for adding all these points. Adsense is available in my country but there was a discussion about that new Google Poll or is it called Adsense Poll? I am very interested in that but it is not available yet in South Africa. I would have loved to try that! Hopefully it will be available soon.

9 years ago

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vinaya

vinaya

If you apply for Adsense through a website, it is very hard to get approved because Google wants
enough contents
high quality contents
original contents
contents on google approved topics
You never know what is enough contents. I know someone with 10 articles have been approved for adsense and someone with 20 articles have been told that they don't have enough contents.
The term high quality/original contents is also very vague. Some people have been approved for 300 words articles where as some people who had published over 500 words articles were not approved.

8 years ago

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Corzhens

Corzhens

Just to share our experience. When we applied for Google Adsense account, we were advised to have a website that has established number of views. And since my husband’s office has a website running for more than 2 years with a good number of hits, we used that for the application and later on my husband connected his blog sites. But if your website or blog is pretty new, you will undergo an observation period.

7 years ago

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augusta

augusta

Getting approval from Google Adsense to join their Adsense is becoming stiffer by the day.Like my country one needs to run the site for 90 days to get accepted, then the content is another area they do not joke with, one's content must be original, valuable and the niche well defined.There should be a good amount of posts and views to even think about applying.

The different pages must be in place like the about us page, disclaimer page etc.The site must not contravene their terms and conditions.So basically one should check with their AdSense program policies before applying for approval.

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