I have received the following mail from http://blog.2createawebsite.com/. It describes how Google has become stricter in their accepting websites for Adsense program. It also guides what should be the right mental approach towards the idea of earning through Adsense: "Google Gets Strict and Frustrates Bloggers" Posted: 08 Dec 2008 01:34 PM PST If you are already an AdSense member, you may not know that Google recently tightened up their acceptance policies for their popular AdSense program. Gone are the days where you can throw up a quick Blogger blog today and get accepted into the AdSense program by tomorrow. According to their policies, you must adhere to the following guidelines… 1) Your website must sit on a top-level domain (yoursite.com not yoursite.host.com). 2) Your domain must be active for at least 6 months 3) Your AdSense application info must match your domain records Due to the fact I am already a member, I was not aware of some of these policies until I began getting more emails from people who were getting rejected because their site didn’t adhere to one or more of the guidelines. One blogger was quite upset, saying he believed his Blogger blog had very well written content that was unique. Another lady complained that the guidelines were just too strict and should be relaxed. Take note that both of these blogs were created with the free Blogger service and neither had their own domain name to redirect to their blogs. Here’s My Take… If you want to make money online, understand that you are setting up a business. Businesses require investments and work. If you are not prepared to fork over $3-$10/month for hosting then maybe this is not for you right now. I personally don’t think the criteria is overly strict, and it will eliminate many of the low-quality sites throughout the network. If you ask me, this is long overdue. What people need to understand is that Google must protect their advertisers — the lifeblood of their business. And because Google started out with such a relaxed acceptance policy, things got out of hand. Worthless blogs and websites with plagiarized content were going up left and right. Numerous people tried to cheat the system by inviting friends to click their ads or using other computers to click their own ads. Instead of treating AdSense as a monetization model for their business, people behaved as if this was some way to get-rich quickly with Google ads. What Publishers Should Know If you’re an AdSense publisher, understand that being a member is a privilege, not a right. Some webmasters seem to feel they are entitled to get paid by Google because they have a website, but as I stated earlier, Google’s top priority is the AdWords advertisers. We the publishers are helping Google advertise and Google is paying us a percentage of what they earn. If the advertisers complain about the quality of the sites or click fraud, then it’s in Google’s best interest to rectify the situation. Now of course, the AdWords advertisers can choose NOT to display their ads on the publisher websites, but that’s not the point. Publishers need to respect and understand how the AdWords and AdSense relationship works. I applaud Google for their policies. If you think about it, everyone wins in the end. If the overall quality of the publisher sites improve, more AdWords advertisers may opt in to display their ads on our sites, thus giving us publishers the opportunity to earn more. In the last two months my AdSense earnings are up quite a bit. Some analysts speculate Google’s cleanup and stricter policies are causing more AdWords advertisers to opt into advertising on the publisher sites. There’s no way I can know this for sure, but I wouldn’t doubt this has an impact." source:http://blog.2createawebsite.com/
Sounds fair. Actually I fel google must verify each and every domain before the publisher is allowed to advertise. That would help cut some crap sites.
Yeah, You shoud have your own domain and the your blog should have a good amount of traffic to get approved into Adsense these days. Also they are banning the accounts of those who have more sites on the same niche and are earning revenue via adsense. Probably, that's a good move by Google to keep all those spam sites away.
Yea this is better. It's safer for advertisers specially those who are paying high cpc and getting no roi Google should be more strict so that quality of network remains high.
I think it's fine that Adsense was strict but it need to consider where to put your strictness if in the publishers or in the advertisers... I think the important place to be strict is with the advertisers. Then of course in the publishers to prevent cheating.
I agree with bigtugboat. I appled for adsense with brand new domain and got email from adsense saying that they wont accept application for new sites and the Domain Name should be 6 months old. Then later I applied with old domain and got approved today.
I checked the Adsense site and blog but did not find these rules, especially about the 6 months condition. Does # 1 includes blogspot blogs? I started a blog 5 months ago and I did not have any problems in Adsense approval. I am planning to make another blog soon, and will put Adsense there. Can someone please put here the link from Adsense that tells about this? Thanks!
He made it up to drive traffic to his blog. If you already have a account do not worry about it just put the Adsense code.
Ya i too experienced Great pain to get an account.But now i am happy now.Dont loose heart . U will get One account
Does it mean that the 6-month rule is only for those who do not have account yet? And not for old account users like me who plans to make another Adsense blog? Thanks!
Such things are really hard to confirm... On Google Adsense website, inside the "How do I get started?" link (second last link in the side bar on left), Google is still recommending to take a start with Blogger or Google Page Creator if one is aiming to get registered with Adsense. Apparently,there is no mention of a six month old top level domain yet.
I am not sure whether this 6 months things do exist in the policy or not. But, if it is not true then why are we getting a message saying "your blog must be six months old to get approved". my site www.xplorinhom.blogspot.com got rejected when i applied for adsense.
sounds fair... because ppl broke the rules, we all pay the consequences.. it's not google that is strict, it's people who want to cheat.. so, it's acceptable for me, coz when i first applied my adsense account, i got approved within 5 days, it's all okay as long as we are honest and not harm google.
I think thats a good idea. I would imagine this would make things better for those of us who are non-mfa webmasters.
I agree with you on everything except one point...and I don't actually disagree on the one point, I just don't accept the reasoning. The point is the one right at the end where you speculate your increased earnings are due to more publishers trusting the system. That's possible but I think its Occams Razor which roughly translates to "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." In other words your increase is due to your sites maturing or the publishers having higher budgets through simple supply and demand fluctuations. Or Google serving your site higher paying ads etc. Any of those and several others are more likely triggers to your earnings going up