Rejection
I always thought that I was pretty good at taking rejection. I do my work, make sure I've figured my research out and then go for it. Today, however, has sort of given me a punch in the gut.
I finally got to the training about AdSense with Google. I was super excited to finally have this on my site and a little nervous as well. I thought my site was a shoe-in, but I was wrong.
When I applied I got an email saying that it could take upwards of 2 weeks to get an answer to my application. Alright, that was fine. I can wait. I opened my mail today and saw an email from Google. I was totally excited! I opened it and apparently I don't meet the program criteria.
I am not sure exactly what aspects I don't meet. I have been through their list several times. My only guess at this point is that one of my amazon affiliate links may be broken because the item is no longer available. Is this something that I am going to have to check daily? I really hope not because that would be a monumental amount of time spent doing that.
So, now that I know my site isn't good enough, I have to make a plan of action. I already have a challenge I have put in place for myself for a post a day for my site. Fine, that will give me more content and hopefully drive more traffic to my site.
I also wrote up on my year view calendar that hangs on my office wall that by the end of February, I want to be below rank 3000 on WA, have 10 unique visitors a day coming to my website, and I just added I want to be accepted into Google AdSense.
Here's hoping that I will get everything that I set for myself. Feels very much like I am reaching farther than I ought to, but I'm ready to push myself. I'm swallowing my fear and moving forward. Only place to go now is up!
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Hi Angela, I really doubt that your site is not good enough for the reason you were not accepted for the Google ads.
Sometimes Google looks at the time you have been here before they approve anything. After three months you gain more of Google's trust and I am sure you will be accepted by then.
Best wishes,
Michael
Thank you! I will just have to try and apply again in the next couple weeks and hope that they accept me. I went through all my pages today to make sure that all the links worked so I am good there.
Thank you.
Angela
Hi - there are several reasons for rejection. You need 20 to 30 posts, the majority of which have been added in the last 6 months. You need a clearly visible Affiliate Disclosure. No content can be copied and pasted. No adult content.
Ah that might be the case then. I do not have that many from the past 6 months. I took a break for the birth of my son and me being a first time mommy. I have both an affiliate disclosure and medical disclaimer and I don't plagiarizer lol.
Thank you very much for this insight!
Angela
Hi - yes, they like to see that you are maintaining the site on a regular basis. So, if it appears to be "abandoned", then, in effect, you need to start building up your content again.
To be honest, until you have constant daily traffic, you earn very little from AdSense, maybe a few dollars a month.
Thank you, I am trying. Everyone's words of encouragement and other options is helping give me so much heart to continue on. I absolutely love this community.
Angela
Keep working at it. I had the same thing happen with adsense. It took me awhile to realize that the way I was presenting affiliate products was not acceptable to the format. I went to something else.
How were you presenting the affiliate products that they didn't like? Maybe that is my problem and it is something that can be easily remedied.
Angela
I have a blog post which gives a few reviews but mostly gives advice on fishing and then suggests things to try out. But, I have a number of pages that promote specific types of fishing equipment so there are lots of affiliate items on a page. This is what was not appreciated.
This is good to know. I sometimes will do 1-3 items per page that I do. Maybe this is something that I should not do as much as? Or maybe make it more obvious because I know that they say you can't trick people into clicking on your ads.
Did Google tell you this directly? I only got an email saying general "you don't meet out requirements".
Its been awhile, but I emailed for an explanation and was told that affiliate products weren't display properly. I made the assumption that the number of products on a page was the problem.
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Don’t worry at all, as Debbi said just continue and reapply in a few months. If I’m honest it’s better to get page views and a bit of traction, before monetising same with Amazon, because you need 3 sales from the first 90 days.
It’s all going to be ok, keep plodding 👍