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title: "No Google AdSense for Me"
date: 2003-06-25T20:23:16-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/06/25/adsense-no/
author: Les Orchard
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# No Google AdSense for Me

<blockquote cite="https://www.google.com/adsense/">
Google <span style='background : #FFFFCE;'><a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/edit/Main/AdSense?topicparent=Main.FilterData"><b>?</b></a><font color="#0000FF">AdSense</font></span> is for web
publishers who want to make more revenue from advertising on their site while maintaining editorial
quality. <span style='background : #FFFFCE;'><a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/edit/Main/AdSense?topicparent=Main.FilterData"><b>?</b></a><font color="#0000FF">AdSense</font></span> delivers text-based Google <span style='background : #FFFFCE;'><a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/edit/Main/AdWords?topicparent=Main.FilterData"><b>?</b></a><font color="#0000FF">AdWords</font></span> ads that are relevant to what your readers see
on your pages and Google pays you. 
</blockquote><div class="credit" align="right"><small>Source:<cite><a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/">Google AdSense</a></cite></small></div>
<br /><br />
<blockquote cite="URL">Your website is a type of website that we do not currently
accept into our program. Such websites include, but are not limited
to, chat sites, personal pages, search engines, sites that contain
predominately copyrighted material, and sites that drive traffic
through cybersquatting.</blockquote>
<div class="credit" align="right"><small>Source:<cite>Response to an AdSense application for decafbad.com</cite></small></div>
<br /><br />
Hmph.  No chat around here.  I suppose things are a little personal, and there's a search
engine.  But, if there be warez here, I must've been hacked, and nobody seems to want
this domain but me, so there doesn't seem to be any squatting going on.
<br /><br />
Guess I'm not a web publisher who wants to make more revenue while maintaining editorial
quality.  :)  (I'm guessing I've been rejected as a web publisher.)
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.geeknik.net/"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=75dbbf57a574d8445968c52823abc316&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.geeknik.net/">brian</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221087840" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-06-25T22:56:22">2003-06-25T22:56:22</time></a>
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            <div class="content">That's rather odd really, since they accepted my website.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://molelog.molehill.org/blox/"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=1c421a085aca07da4a1e2545c8676633&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://molelog.molehill.org/blox/">Todd Larason</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221087842" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-06-26T00:06:24">2003-06-26T00:06:24</time></a>
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            <div class="content">And I was rejected due to "inappropriate site content" (ie, I guess I fall into their definition of 'pornography') rather than for being a personal site or whatnot.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.robertbrook.com/"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=ac2eb640d2cdbd06f5c8ab74a75a8c94&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.robertbrook.com/">Robert Brook</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221087845" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-06-26T09:00:31">2003-06-26T09:00:31</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Well, I was too 'personal' a site. Pity, really.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://caribbeancricket.com"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=279a30c493a676d0b380658bf06f0508&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://caribbeancricket.com">Ryan Naraine</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221087847" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-07-01T19:39:59">2003-07-01T19:39:59</time></a>
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            <div class="content">I initially got rejected with that "chat site" excuse.  I responded with a pleasant mention that news.google.com has no problem indexing my site to for content on Google News.  Two days later, they said the initial rejection was a "mistake" and I was admitted to AdSense.

I can tell you, even at .03% click through, it pays the hosting bills and there's leftover.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://caribbeancricket.com">Ryan Naraine</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221087851" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-07-01T19:40:30">2003-07-01T19:40:30</time></a>
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            <div class="content">I initially got rejected with that "chat site" excuse.  I responded with a pleasant mention that news.google.com has no problem indexing my site to for content on Google News.  Two days later, they said the initial rejection was a "mistake" and I was admitted to AdSense.

I can tell you, even at .03% click through, it pays the hosting bills and there's leftover.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="">phyxeld</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221087854" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-07-01T22:06:11">2003-07-01T22:06:11</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Write them back. They have rejected people's AdWords ads many times, only to change their mind when prodded. If they were rejecting blogs entirely, I would understand, but since they're not, I see no reason your site should be rejected. (Unless wikis qualify as chat sites?)</div>
            
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