There are lot of threads in recent times in DP seeking for reasons for their sites being dis-approved by Google. Here are the main reasons. Rather than posting a new thread, check following issues and try to fix them. 1. Copied content: If your site's content are copied, it will be rejected anyhow. Try to write fresh and not even rewriting 2. Not so old blogger Blog: If your blog is less than 6 months, you might be rejected 3. Content is not updated frequently: If you rarely update your contents than chances are that your site might be rejected. 4. No link building: If you have not build any links from any other sites ( though this is a very fake reason, but it counts) 5. If you have less text content and more multimedia content like images and videos 6. If your traffic is very low: Google judges it based on your keyword positioning. 7. If your site does not have any potential : like you have designed a site which might not have anything worth new or noteworthy! 8. If you were banned previously and have acquired a new account without going through their appeal process successfully. So check these points if Google has rejected your application and work into them.
As par AdSense policy, traffic is nowhere mentioned. it is true. But what I have observed is main reasons for blogs being rejected is traffic or possible source of traffic. Hence it is better to set that right before applying IMO but not as par AdSense. I agree.
What is the email from the adsense tell when they reject the account, do they mentioned any about traffic? And base on what you conclude that the blog rejected due to low traffic?
I also in agree with this. They have never mentioned about a site will get banned due to low traffic and having low traffic doesn't mean it will be low always. Basically and initially the traffic must be low and increased with time not like sudden boost by 3 times.
Hello! The email one receives is really an automated response and hardly ever tells you the actual reason behind the ban. My understanding is an AdWord Advertiser monitors the sites where the Ads are displayed and it's him who tracks the worthless sites and opts out of the site. When many Advertisers opts out of the site, Google have a look at them. An advertiser invariably sees CTR and the Alexa to know if the clicks are legit. So if the traffic is low, chances are: you are in trouble. Again this is my personal analysis and should not be taken seriously if your understanding differs from this!
Not sure whether you are Adwords user. Adwords user normally care more about the conversion rate. As long as the site is quality site, it doesn't matter if the site generate only little traffic since they are paying per click. They are looking for quality traffic, not crap traffic. 1 quality traffic is better than 100 crap traffic since quality traffic have high conversion but craap traffic not generate anything
Yes I do use AdWords! Though volume or budget is low, I use it! And I know that CPC is adjusted and are minimized with some automated settings. Though what is a conversion from AdWord point of view may not coincide with business goals with advertiser. In some cases we hate our ads being shown to crap sites. Now if you can see or rather visit two excluded sites, you can understand what is a crap site. Though all the visitors from those sites actually registered ( what you call a conversion). So your site coming under scrutiny depends upon many factor and this is surely one of the factors. Because as a publisher I can not guarantee that all clicks will convert! If they dont, CPC is brought down. Google can not throw a publisher just because Ads are not converting. I may be wrong. But this is just my observation and opinion. And see carefully how AdWord works... It managed to show my Ads in my site only!