Just one thing (from the many I encountered) - mailing list. I easily subscribed to it with the e-mail "". Really?
Give visitors a brief idea what does your website is all about. You can explain it on the right hand side of your Logo of website. So when someone comes across he/she may know that particular site is about ........
This guy is so FULL OF S**T. Adsense is not dying at all. Yes people use social media allit but have the links clicked there lead to external sites. It always cracks me up when people say adsense doesnt pay allot. Yet I see over $5 CPM from them.
If the articles are at least 70-80% unique I think you are going to be approved for an adsense account with this website. If you need some help check out this thread https://forums.digitalpoint.com/thr...tes-and-keywords.2609807/page-3#post-19524230 You will get a website that is 100% legit to Google.
I have applied for adsense before, original unique quality content works plus some visitors works. Use blogspot and use a custom domain name it works like a charm free hosting some more.