Adsense approval survey
Adsense is one of the things that every blogger would love to have but many find it extremely difficult to get approved. I was wondering if it would help a blogger determine the suitability of his site for adsense if he has access to information about the state of a few adsense-approved blogs when they have applied for adsense.
So, here are a few questions which I would like all those bloggers with an approved adsense account to answer. Even those who don't have an approved adsense account are free to comment on this thread.
- Which blog (name of the blog) did you use while applying for adsense? (Do not post the blog's link. We can find it from your IB profile.)
- Under what category does your blog fall? Technology, blogging, recipes, travel etc
- How many monthly unique visitors, visitors (or sessions) and pageviews did your blog have at the time of applying for adsense? Are these stats from Blogger or Google Analytics or some other source?
- What was the age of your blog?
- Did you blog have a top level domain when you applied for adsense?
- Have you applied through Blogger or directly through adsense?
- Were you accepted in your first attempt? If not, what were the reasons cited for denying your application previously? How did you work on them?
- How many posts did your blog have? What was the average length of a post? What was your posting frequency?
- Did your blog have the look of a typical blog (were post snippets of latest blog posts are displayed on the home page and there are links for navigating to the previous posts) or did it look more like a website?
- Did your blog posts (and comments) have timestamps?
- Any suggestions to those who are applying for adsense?
If you have any other questions you want to include above, state in the discussion area below.
Thanks!
Reason: -
# None
# PC hardware Tech Reviews, yo!
# Now? 60k pageviews. Google Analytics as source. Bounce Rate well under 10%
# 4 years now, but I got adsense approval after 6 days when I started the site with .com domain via blogger. This was in 2010.
# Yes
# Blogger
# Yup. # 16? All of them are reviews. My own pics. My own benchmarks
# Judging by what many said, yeah. But I used some software which basically lets you create your own, and then uploads it on blogger using flickr as the source to store images.
# err....yeah!
# Well, I know things are harder now, especially for Indian folks. Blame the so-called SEO and marketing experts. Many tried to scam and therefore adsense approval became very strict. Now I can't even get inside buysellads network, so who knows if its because of this or not.
Thanks for the reply.
# Now? 60k pageviews. Google Analytics as source. Bounce Rate well under 10%
At the time of applying for adsense?
barely 100 per day. lesser during the weekends. lot lesser than 20k.
1. Blog Name: Neither Here Nor There (If that is what you meant by blog name)
2. Category: Personal. It has short stories, book reviews, and Indispire Prompts. Some posts on Cricket.
3. Unique Visitors: About 100. Not more than that. But it's not the exact number.
4. Age: 2 years
5. I don't know what's a top level domain is
6. I don't understand the question
7. In the second attempt, I got accepted. The reason given by google was that site not compliant to Guidelines set by Google. I played around a bit with the template, removed all unnecessary widgets.
8. No of posts at the time of approval: Around 70-75
9. Yes
10. Yes. Comments I'm not sure.
11. No
Average length of the post: 500 words
Posting Frequency: Thrice in a month
Applying through blogger: http://prntscr.com/5fy228
To apply directly through adsense, you start here : https://www.google.com/adsense
- Which blog (name of the blog) did you use while applying for adsense? (Do not post the blog's link. We can find it from your IB profile.) : Daily Chores
- Under what category does your blog fall? Technology, blogging, recipes, travel etc : Food Blog
- How many monthly unique visitors, visitors (or sessions) and pageviews did your blog have while applying for adsense? Are these stats from Blogger or Google Analytics or some other source? : 500 (google analytics)
- What was the age of your blog? 6 months - rejected | 8th month re applied - accepted (after 8 rejections)
- Did it have a top level domain? No, not while applying
- Have you applied through Blogger or directly through adsense? Through Blogger
- Were you accepted in your first attempt? If not, what were the reasons cited for denying your application previously? How did you work on them? : most of the time it was "not compling with google policies" and twice the reason was" google does not accept blogs which has pages with just links" (I had pages for each recipe category which had only recipe names linked to detailed recipe. I had to delete them all and just made one menu page.
- How many posts did your blog have? What was the average length of a post? What was your posting frequency? : 150 + posts, 15 to 25 per month
- Did your blog have the look of a typical blog (were post snippets of latest blog posts are displayed on the home page and there are links for navigating to the previous posts) or did it look more like a website? typical beginner blog kinds
- Did your blog posts (and comments) have timestamps?: whats time stamp??
- Any suggestions to those who are applying for adsense? : remove pages with just links, check for broken links.
Thanks for replying.
Timestamp is the date and time when the post/comment was published. Your blog has comment timestamps. http://prntscr.com/5fy18p but not post timestamps http://prntscr.com/5fy1kj
- Which blog (name of the blog) did you use while applying for adsense? (Do not post the blog's link. We can find it from your IB profile.) : comboupdated.com
- Under what category does your blog fall? Technology, blogging, recipes, travel etc : Tech
- How many monthly unique visitors, visitors (or sessions) and pageviews did your blog have at the time of applying for adsense? Are these stats from Blogger or Google Analytics or some other source? : 1K plus uniques
- What was the age of your blog? : at that moment some 4 months
- Did you blog have a top level domain when you applied for adsense? : Yep
- Have you applied through Blogger or directly through adsense? : Direct
- Were you accepted in your first attempt? If not, what were the reasons cited for denying your application previously? How did you work on them? : Yep
- How many posts did your blog have? What was the average length of a post? What was your posting frequency? : more than 100 posting frequency was like 10 to 15 posts a day
- Did your blog have the look of a typical blog (were post snippets of latest blog posts are displayed on the home page and there are links for navigating to the previous posts) or did it look more like a website? : Dunno had a customised template made from a guy from Vietnam
- Did your blog posts (and comments) have timestamps? : Yep
- Any suggestions to those who are applying for adsense? : If you are new tech blogger/tutorials/education course/films reviews/study material blogger, better forget adsense and find some other way for monetisation
Thanks
10 to 15 posts a day? Too good
If you are new tech blogger/tutorials/education course/films reviews/study material blogger, better forget adsense and find some other way for monetisation
NSW what is your earnings with adsense (give approx fig for a month)
VP, what's your approximate earnings from adsense? I'm curious.
Right now FP its around 300 a week
My total earnings so far from adsense: 0$
0.06
VP is a rich person
Its 300 Rs. a week
No pinky promise
I didnot get approval...have no idea why . May be my blog is too new! Can anybody suggest what is to be done?
Make sure you have written quality and informative posts on your blog. Because Content is only the way to get approved by Google adsense. Just my 2cents.
@Ranjith.. No I have added time stamp for my posts
* typo I meant now
I got rejected.
Why rejected? can you reproduce the email from Google Adsense here pls
Does adsense work with wordpress blogs?
It only works with selfhosted wp blogs
Wordpress doesn't allow you to external scripts and adsense is an external script. So, it won't work.
wont it be better if you attach a google survey link to this post?
Will help organise data better
The problem with Google docs is that you can't associate the survey response to an account on IB.
I am Ranjith but I can submit the form as Vijay. No one will know that it was Ranjith who submitted the form and not Vijay.
I dont know if this will help but here is a form from Google for those who dont have adsense
https://support.google.com/adsense/contact/contactsales?hl=en&__utma=173272373.4058164.1418484494.1419093190.1419123833.12&__utmb=173272373.2.9.1419123847587&__utmc=173272373&__utmx=-&__utmz=173272373.1419093190.11.11.utmcsr=accounts.google.com%7Cutmccn=(referral)%7Cutmcmd=referral%7Cutmcct=/CheckCookie&__utmv=-&__utmk=48144231
You should have posted a clickable link like this : contact here
Seeing the long URL itself will frighten everyone
Do the adsense people really respond to queries submitted using the above form?
Dunno, if your blog is good and the bots have rejected it may be they do I think this form is for human intervention in the approval process
- Blog Name: Metro Greens - Journey of a Plant Lover
- Category: Home & Gardening (Gardening)
- Visitors: Had 196 users, 250 sessions and 790 pageviews in the month prior to the approval of adsense on my blog. (Google Analytics Stats)
- Age of Blog: 1 year, 11 months.
- Custom Domain: Yes. Have it ever since I started my blog (moved to a custom domain within 2 weeks of starting my blog.
- Mode of Application: Applied via Blogger Dashboard.
- # of Attempts: 1. Was accepted in the first attempt itself.
- No of Posts at the time of application: 99. Average length of my blog posts range between 400-500 words. Since beginning I have tried to maintain a posting frequency of once a week. Though at times, I fail to keep it up, but always try to be on my posting schedule.
- Look and Feel: I'm not sure what a typical blog looks like, but, I have tried to modify it as much as possible. Though, in terms of a typical blog, I guess, it does have the usual posts, archives and comments. I have tried adding a few bells and whistles, like adding a contact page, a downloads page for downloading wallpapers of my photos, and a custom header and menu.
- Timestamps: Yes, both posts and comments have timestamps.
- Suggestions for Applicants: I can't really say, but most of these suggestions are out in the open. What I felt was having a custom domain name goes miles in getting you an approval. Other suggestions are already there, like writing plagiarism free contents, have enough contents on your blog, and such. I guess you need to wait a good enough time before applying for it. Like I waited for around 2 years before applying and got it in the first attempt itself.
Congrats CK
Congrats!
Applied via Blogger Dashboard.
So, if you want to use Adsense on your blogging blog, you should again apply directly through adsense.google.com, right?
Which blog (name of the blog) did you use while applying for adsense? (Do not post the blog's link. We can find it from your IB profile.) - Applied for two blogs and accepted for both Ebuzznet and androidbean
Under what category does your blog fall? Technology, blogging, recipes, travel etc - Ebuzznet - Small Business Androidbean - Android Blog
How many monthly unique visitors, visitors (or sessions) and pageviews did your blog have at the time of applying for adsense? Are these stats from Blogger or Google Analytics or some other source? Both of them = around 300-500 Page Views though analytics
What was the age of your blog? Ebuzznet was 2 months OLD, Androidbean was 1 year OLDDid you blog have a top level domain when you applied for adsense? - YES Have you applied through Blogger or directly through adsense? - Direct Adsense
Were you accepted in your first attempt? If not, what were the reasons cited for denying your application previously? How did you work on them? - Ebuzznet - 2nd attempt, reason - Insufficient content (there was 10 articles) AndroidBean - 1st attempt
How many posts did your blog have? What was the average length of a post? What was your posting frequency? - Ebuzznet - 50 Article, Androidbean 126 Article, length - 550-700 both blogs, Frequency - daily (some times 2-5 post dailiy) Did your blog have the look of a typical blog (were post snippets of latest blog posts are displayed on the home page and there are links for navigating to the previous posts) or did it look more like a website? - (Typical Blogs)Did your blog posts (and comments) have timestamps? (No Timestamps reduce CTR in SERPs)Any suggestions to those who are applying for adsense?
Apply for adsense only if your blog have valauble content for community.. Write in simple words. don't use too much hi-fi English... Don't link to irrelevent sites or hacking or porn sites.... Write original content not copied from somewhere else... Make sure your article is having 550-750 words... Use images, videos, slides, graphs in other terms use multimedia in your content...before appliying make sure your blog is not having broken links, images without alt text etc...
Free Suggestion - Anyone can indimail me before applying to Adsense... I will have a look and tell you what corrections needs to be done..
I was happy that I got approved by adsense till I saw this thread..
My blog traffic is too low. Will have to work harder.
I have an adsense approved account, but I am not using any adverts. If you want, I can share the codes.
PS: Don't expect me to share the money though
I got approved with a month old blog having 19 post and 15 days old Domain/Hosting.
I heard a lot that Asian countries have to wait 6 month or atleast 2,3 months. I read we should have atleast 30,40 quality contents. I googled that we should remove any affiliates program we are running.
In my case I was confident that I would get adsense approval for sure and the next morning I got an Email "Congratulation your application has been approved"
My Blog : WindowsPhoneWiki ( Phone reviews , How-to's , features etc etc.... )
Thanks, Peace!
At the time of applying Adesense, I was getting 40-60 viditors per day. After starting my blog I got approved within 1 month with 20 number of posts.
Mine was rejected. Is there any way I could apply again?
Yes, you can after making all the changes due to which your blog got rejected !!
I got my adsense approved after six years of hard work. I am happy I did it. :)))
Google has very complicated process for Adsense.Main point of concern for Blogger should be Quality Plus Healthi quantity of blog materials on blog.Rest are confusing.
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