Before adding adsense to your site read this
I would like to say to any people with new websites please hold off for a while before trying to place google adsense on your site. I had tried adding adsense adds to my website and I know my site is far from complete but tried anyway because it was in the training. I had blank adds for a couple of weeks. I eventually got an email back from Google stating the following.
We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below
Insufficient content: To be approved for AdSense and show relevant ads on your site, your pages need to have enough text on them for our specialists to review and for our crawler to be able to determine what your pages are about.
To resolve this issue, please work through the following suggestions:
- Make sure that your pages have sufficient text - websites that contain mostly images, videos or Flash animations will not be approved.
- Your content should contain complete sentences and paragraphs, not only headlines.
- Ensure that your website is fully built and launched before you apply for AdSense - do not apply while your site’s still in a beta or “under construction” phase or only consists of a website template.
- Place the ad code on a live page of your website. It does not have to be the main page, but test pages that are empty except for the AdSense ad code will not be approved.
- Provide a clear navigation system for your visitors so that they can easily find all of the sections and pages of your website.
- If you’d like to monetize YouTube videos, please apply for the YouTube monetization program. Note that blogs and websites that contain only videos will not be approved.
As soon as you’ve made the necessary changes, we’ll be happy to take another look at your application.
Hopefully this saves a few of you some time and effort by not trying to place adds too early like I did.
Cheers Colin
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Another point to your story that needs to be added: The lower the traffic to your site the lower quality of links that Google will supply. Low quality links produce minimum amounts of income.
A good indicator of traffic to be receiving weekly I would say minimum of 200 unique visitors. Having more traffic will produce more income because the quality of links (with a higher per click price) will be supplied by Google. The reason why I know this? I have a PDF file I will gladly furnish to you that gives facts and proof of this relationship.