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So you worked really hard to ensure your blog complies with Google Adsense ToS and then after requesting for approval by submitting your blog, you are slammed with a rejection mail for lack of compliance with Google Adsense policies. You scream and you are forced to ask; how dare you reject my Google Adsense application?
That isn’t an over-the-top question; many people have asked similar questions so you are not alone friend. Google has carefully written how to comply with Adsense, but most times the bulky nature of the text becomes a scary movie and we just hit the agree button without reading a larger portion of it.
While Adsense looks exciting and a must have, a lot of bloggers do not reach their first threshold of $100 until after one year. Google uses a lot of parameters in calculating what you should earn and any attempt to cheat them will lead to your automatic ban. Yes, their system is very sophisticated and they are that smart to quickly discover fraudulent publishers and kick them out of their program. When you are kicked-out, you may never be accepted again. Your Adsense account is a life-time account. This should tell you how serious Google treats the Adsense advertising network.
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That said; if you were rejected and still wondering why, I will quickly guide you through some fixes that could make Google accept you. There is no guarantee that my tips will make your blog seductive to Google but it may help altogether.
Before You Apply For Google Adsense
1. Avoid Plagiarism
Google loves original and high quality articles. As a blogger aspiring to be accepted into the Adsense network, it is compulsory that you do not have plagiarized contents on your blog. You really need to push your creativity to the limits and write articles that would be beneficial to whoever comes across it.
If you have less than 70% original contents on your blog, you stand a very low chance of being an Adsense publisher.
2. Avoid Nulled Templates
If you really love a template, you would appreciate the author of the templates by purchasing it. If you decide to use a nulled template, you are at a greater risk not entirely about Adsense, but your blog’s health’s is placed on red alert. 99% of the time, cracked templates are manipulated by their vendors to have malicious links and are prone to hackers.
When the Adsense bot visits your blog and finds a single banned url on your blog, you will be left with 0% chance of getting approved.
No matter how tempting a template can be, if you can’t afford the original version by the verified author, take a break and when you have the capacity to make the acquisition, make a move.
Hint: Articles should be 350 words minimum.
3. Keep Your Blog Navigation Simple
Your blog should be very easy to navigate; it should not be off-putting to humans and to bots. If you are inter-linking your articles, it should be done professionally. There is no point wasting people time wondering how to walk their way through your blog.
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4. Credit Every Images Not Owned
The issue of plagiarism as raised in the first tip is not tied to articles alone. Images are kind-of tricky and lots of people think that because an image appears on Google’s image repository, it is free. The truth is that almost all the images available on Google search are copyrighted. So when you upload an image to your blog post without permission from the original owner, it is seen as copyright infringement. Google Adsense will not associate with copyright infringement, they are rich, but they hate litigation.
There are a couple of sites like Flickr where you can get free images but you can as well credit images not owned to the original author so even when he stumbles upon his image, he might take no further action or politely ask you to take it down.
5. Domain Age
In exception of India and Pakistan which requires a 6-months old domain name for Adsense consideration, every other country requires a minimum of 3-months. Within the few months, Google wants you to keep publishing great articles, optimizing your blog for search engines, increasing traffic and within that time frame also, Google believes you would have gotten at least 20-articles published.
There are been few reported cases of people getting Adsense approval immediately after the second month. If you are not that patient, you could submit a request at that same time frame and see if you are a genius.
6. Remove Other Advertising Network
Before confirming your first Adsense application or re-applying for Adsense. Ensure that no other Advertising network runs on your blog. Ad services like Infolinks, Media.net and Chikita should be temporally removed.
Once approved, you could add them back but be careful not to violate one Advertising network policy for the other and vice versa.
7. Avoid Google Stop Words
They are a lot of Google stop words that you may have unintentionally added to your blog posts, avoid them and find an alternative to them. Never publish unclad images on your blog, doing so might give you cheap traffic but you won’t get a pass into the Adsense network.
Hint: In your spare time, do a little research on what Google stop words are.
8. Organic Traffic
You need to submit your blog to Google and Bing, this ensures that your blog articles are indexed on search engine. If you are on Blogger platform, you can learn how to submit Blogger sitemap to Google, Bing and Yahoo. WordPress users can use Google XML sitemap plugin, don’t forget to register on Google Webmaster tools and verify your blog.
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Important Page Requirements
Before attempting to contact Google Adsense, ensure that you have the following pages on your blog;
1. Privacy Policy – This tells your visitors how you manage their cookies and lots more.
2. About – This explains what your blog is all about.
3. Contact – This provides a communication pass between you and your visitors.
Tip: Place your Name and Email address in your About or Contact page, this makes your blog more human than a spammer.
Over To You
So much has been written already and I must thank you reading up to this point. It means you are really passionate about been a Google Adsense publisher. I believe I have made things simple and I wish to state again that I do not work for Adsense neither do I have sole knowledge of how things are done in Google’s HQ. These tips only represents months of research and most of it are equally available on Google Adsense program policies.
Now, I really love to hear from you, did you miss any of these tips and what have you done to improve your blog for Adsense approval? Kindly drop your comments and let keep the learning cycle in perfect shape.
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33 Comments
kapil
Same thing happened to me some days ago,I reason Adsense didn’t approve me account was because I was using a nulled template,now I have purchased a licensed template and would soon apply for adsense again!!
Nosa E Nosa
Hello Kapil,
Using nulled templates is never an option, I am glad you made the right decision and I wish best of luck in your next application.
Emmanuel
Hahaha, I just like the title ‘How Dare You Reject My Google Adsense Application’. This is something I guess Google and their entire team should answer.
Do have a great weekend bro!
Nosa E Nosa
Hey Emmanuel,
It’s really nice having you here. Thanks for your lovely comments and have a lovely weekend ahead. 🙂
Kyle Stevens
Hello Nosa,
Thanks for the wonderful post. I would like to add and explain the term “Insufficient Content”. Insufficient content is a term you get when the article of your blog are less than 300 words. It doesn’t necessarily means that you don’t have enough article published on your blog. Therefore as you plan on applying for google adsense, make sure you have well written articles of atleast 400 to 500 words. Good luck
Nosa E Nosa
Hello Kyle.
Thanks your fantastic contribution. , You explained it so well. Do have a nice day.
Babshaybell
And There We Go again.. Another Brilliant article.. Thanks for pointing out these.
Nosa E Nosa
Thanks Babshaybell 🙂
Obasi Miracle
Hi Nosa,
you have really provided a noble tip for many bloggers to learn from, reading and understanding those cumbersome google adsense policies could be very hefty at times really.
Thanks for sharing this whole lot buddy.
Nosa E Nosa
Hello bro,
It’s really nice to have you here. Thanks for your awesome contribution.
Have a nice day buddy!
Gagan
Thanks Nosa for the great tip.I currently using a free template after removing Credits from the bottom but now decided to create my own template from scratch to get approved by Adsense….
Dhiraj
Dear Nosa Sir
Actually am from India. My domain age only 2 months. My blog has well traffics . But am using a template from other source. Still am not sent any adsense approval application. At this moment , i am using some others ads network. nut when am going to send adsense approval request i will remove all other ads tag. So, sir, my request, can you visit my blog and check is it okay for ggogle Adsense approval . Thanks for response.
Regards
Nosa E Nosa
Hello Dhiraj,
I have gone through blog and it’s looks cool. I guess you will to keep working hard which I can see you already doing and once your domain gets to 6-months, you can apply. You don’t have be scared about rejection, because you can always re-apply once you fix the issue. Many of us never had automatic approval.
I can’t see a “Privacy Policy” page on your blog, I hope you can fix that before you apply.
I hope this helps, do have a nice day friend.
Dhiraj
Dear Nosa Sir,
Many many thank you for your positive suggestions about my blog. After your positive feedback i attach privacy policy page under comment us section . So, according to you, i have to wait for more 4 months to get positive return from google adsense team as by blog age only 2 months. However, you already become my teacher in this section. I will follow all your guidelines . Have a great day !
Warm Regards
Dhiraj
matthew
alright, this is a thoroughly well written article… easy to understand and you won’t even realise you’ve gotten to the end… good work nosa… I already referred many of the intending bloggers I know here… they should see this… I’m not a blogger though… I’m just a sucker for anything worth reading… yea I read almost everything…
Nosa E Nosa
Thank you Matthew and do have a nice day.
Monnel Espiritu
Great Job Nosa! I wonder if youn can visit my website and review it if would qualify to Google Adsense. Thanks in advance
Nosa E Nosa
Could you please send you site url?
Monnel Espiritu
The website is dailydigitaldigests.com. tnx
Nosa E Nosa
You site looks great buddy, and like I hinted earlier, I do not work Google so I can’t authoritatively say if they would approve or reject.. But what I have seen you have some stop words on your site, I think if you censor it.. It can leave you at a greater chance..
Monnel Espiritu
What are stop words (if you don’t mind)? Thanks
Nosa E Nosa
You can send me a mail friend.. I reply you from there since I can’t have such stop words here
ambreen11
I get a lot of great information from this website and this is what I am
searching for. Thank you for your sharing such a nice post.
dammy16
Hi Nosa.. Thanks for the wonderful article.. U’ve said it all.. Adsense no be small thing.. When I applied I go this report what do u think I can do to get accepted… Issues:
Site does not comply with Google policies
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Tips:
Here are some recommendations to help you improve the user experience on your site and comply with AdSense criteria:
– It’s important for sites displaying Google ads to offer significant value to the user. As a publisher, you must provide unique and relevant content
that gives users a reason to visit your site first.
– Don’t place ads on auto-generated pages or pages with little to no original content.
– Your site should also provide a good user experience through clear navigation and organization. Users should be able to easily click through your pages and find the information they’re seeking.
rojesh
Dear sir,
I also would like to implement google adsense in my site. I will try for many times. But could not get success till the day. So i am glad to see this Techrez.com site which provides me important instructions for google adsense. Now i am going to try it soon. Thank you all.
Nosa Ero Nosa
Glad you learned a couple of things. I hope you scale through the process and feel free to let us know the situation of things.
Enjoy the rest of the day buddy.
keshavroy
yaa i had also applied for ad-sense for one of my blog but didn’t got approved .after reading your content this because of free templates ,privacy policy page.so i m very tankful to you for above information .
Eedris Djsamlegxy
Hi Nosa, I submitted my Google adsense application two months ago, the thing is am able to login to my Google adsense acct but the error message am getting is “Your application for my360vibes.com cannot be accepted for adsense content at this time, but that does not affect your admob acct”
Any idea on that?
Thanks.
Nosa Ero Nosa
Hi Eedris,
Do you have admob account functioning on your blog already..?
azoka
i believe in original content,img credit, blog navigation and good design with dis google go accept you just like me
Nosa Ero Nosa
Hello Azoka,
You are right and congrats on your approval.. 🙂
Ngwu Chinedu Joseph
Hello Nosa,
Wonderful revelation here. Every blogger should go through such an informative article before applying for Adsense.
Google must be very jealous; for what reason will someone be forced to remove ads from other companies simply because you are applying for google adsense? I wonder what they had in mind for placing such policy.
Every other policies, to some extent; seems ok to me but i just do not like this issue of removing my ads. However, there is nothing we can do. Its either you accept the policy or forget about becoming an adsense publisher.
Thanks for taking your time to set up such an awesome post. Do have a nice time
Nosa Ero Nosa
Hello Joseph,
It’s ridiculous, but we can do nothing about it 🙂 Thanks for sharing your thoughts and enjoy the rest of the day…