Hello all.I found your site while searching Google and its very good. I was searching for reasons as to why my site was turned down as their e-mail just gave the usual "After reviewing your application, our specialists have found that it does not meet our program criteria. Therefore, we are unable to accept you into our program." I am running the site using php nukeplatinum and had a site accepted using the same script a couple of years ago. The current site has a lot more content then the old one ever had and I cannot for the life of me see why they are turning me down Why are they so vague with their reasons? It sucks.If I knew the exact reason I could rectify it.
Pimp us your URL, I'm sure we can figure it out. It must be something obvious - have you read the AdSense TOS? Pete
I took a quick look at the site and didn't see anything obvioulsy wrong with it. I'd write Google back and ask them why it was rejected.
Mmm... with a quick glance I can't really see anything that might have caused you to be rejected. Perhaps you should e-mail them and ask for clarification... after all, they know why they rejected you.
Thankyou for your help guys I will do just that. As we speak there are 3 googlebots and an msn bot crawling all over the site!Now that can only be a good thing I'll also keep you posted on what they say (if I ever get a reply that is!)
I would like to differ. The content doesn't go against TOS .. but look carefully guys .. I looked at the site and believe the reason they reject your app is because most of the links and contents you have in your site is to pages outside your site. IMHO, you have very little content of your own except the Old Articles section ( that sadly has only a few very short articles ). Sorry, but I think Google are right... Create more of your own content, and submit again.
Thanks iskandar I'll take those comments on board and maybe remove the syndicated news off the front page.And you are right about the content.As it is a new site the content is mostly stuff I've added myself but I'm hoping that as the community builds the content should get a lot better. I will also remove the ads when I resubmit it (thanks AmCy) but I think I will leave it for a couple of months or so to see how it builds. All your help is greatly appreciated.Thankyou
I think Google may be finding it hard to see where their adverts would fit in. The site's quite generic. Themed sites and pages on specific topics fit AdSense best. I'd create a navigation with topics like Milton Keynes Hotels and such, but to be honest I'm having a hard time thinking how the Google ads may /assist/ visitors of your pages. I think this may be the problem, but try the suggestions of others and re-submit your application or request why they rejected it. If you'd like to make some money from AdSense, I'd create a site based around a topic where the adverts displayed would be relevant and targetted - for example, picking ideas off your site perhaps one on contact lenses, I hear they pay good. I only thought of that from seeing your opticians page. You can contract writers to do articles on contact lenses for $5 each, you'd only need a small site with a bunch of articles, a bunch submitted to www.ezinearticles.com and what not for a bit of traffic. I aren't too sure AdSense suits your current site that well and I suspect that's why Google turned you down I'm afraid ... see what happens anyway! Pete
i think they rejected your site because you have too many ads on it. five 468x60 banners on one page is too much...
Could that be the reason? you already are accepted by Google for Adsense, so you just use that code here too. You cannot have a second account, so this application was rejected.
Possibly. BTW what did you do with your first account? And if you already have the account , you can use it for this site too. (I really dont think Google rejects sites for lack of content. I have seen sites with 3-4 pages getting accepted. Not sure about if too many ads can get you rejected.)
I think 1) Google does not any have a significant amount of advertisers targeting Milton Keynes. Search for it on Google. Two ads come up: tripadvisor and travel.yahoo.com. This means you'll have the same couple of ads (or none on some pages) rotating on your site. 2) Does not look like you have any traffic? Alexa does not show any numbers which although not too reliable to me says you probably have about 25 visitors/day. How can Google capitalize on that? 3) As was said before: very little of your own content and a lot of ads, some quite flashy. 4) Your content has tons of punctuation and grammar mistakes too In short, you'd have a very hard time appealing their decision. And I understand where they are coming from
I don't know if it is the ads or not but worth a try... You sure you never been banned from adsense before?
i think is too little traffic, they update the tos a while ago saying low publishers will be kicked so maybe they think you won't make it either.
I agree: too much advertisers exist on your pages! And, when I found fianlly link to another page inside site it is opened in new window. Why? I don`t know, everybody talk about "content". What is content at all? Is it letters only? I dont think so. Content is all. Graphic have equal importance as text. I am approved with ONE page BUT page was beauty, graphically. (I am graphic designer and architect). And I send aplication for fun. Do one page best you can, best. Remove ALL external links while wait for response. And you will win. IMO, your site is too much money making oriented right now. Remove adverts. Write only sport news. (I can see you like it most) Let G find that you are interested in content and not in money. good luck
He is not yet publisher. They think? They only can see first proof for not making money and then they could remove him. But he is not yet aproved. This is not true at all. Nothing stated. I started with 2 visits/day.
Thankyou all for your replies.I will go away and rethink my site and my strategies.Some great tips there for me to take onboard. Do you think an entry page in html with links to my some of my content would help?I have been toying with that idea for a while to help my rankings.
google has NO way of knowing how much traffic your site gets, so it is impossible for them to prevent you from joining because of too-little traffic.