Google Gets Strict and Frustrates Bloggers

If you are already an AdSense member, you may not know that Google recently tightened up their acceptance policies for their popular AdSense program.

Gone are the days where you can throw up a quick Blogger blog today and get accepted into the AdSense program by tomorrow.

According to their policies, you must adhere to the following guidelines…

1)  Your website must sit on a top-level domain (yoursite.com not yoursite.host.com).

2) Your domain must be active for at least 6 months

3) Your AdSense application info must match your domain records

Due to the fact I am already a member, I was not aware of some of these policies until I began getting more emails from people who were getting rejected because their site didn’t adhere to one or more of the guidelines.

One blogger was quite upset, saying he believed his Blogger blog had very well written content that was unique. Another lady complained that the guidelines were just too strict and should be relaxed.

Take note that both of these blogs were created with the free Blogger service and neither had their own domain name to redirect to their blogs.

Here’s My Take…

If you want to make money online, understand that you are setting up a business.  Businesses require investments and work.  If you are not prepared to fork over $3-$10/month for hosting then maybe this is not for you right now.

I personally don’t think the criteria is overly strict, and it will eliminate many of the low-quality sites throughout the network.  If you ask me, this is long overdue.

What people need to understand is that Google must protect their advertisers — the lifeblood of their business.  And because Google started out with such a relaxed acceptance policy, things got out of hand.

Worthless blogs and websites with plagiarized content were going up left and right.   Numerous people tried to cheat the system by inviting friends to click their ads or using other computers to click their own ads.

Instead of treating AdSense as a monetization model for their business, people behaved as if this was some way to get-rich quickly with Google ads.

What Publishers Should Know

If you’re an AdSense publisher, understand that being a member is a privilege, not a right.  Some webmasters seem to feel they are entitled to get paid by Google because they have a website, but as I stated earlier, Google’s top priority is the AdWords advertisers.

We the publishers are helping Google advertise and Google is paying us a percentage of what they earn.  If the advertisers complain about the quality of the sites or click fraud, then it’s in Google’s best interest to rectify the situation.

Now of course, the AdWords advertisers can choose NOT to display their ads on the publisher websites, but that’s not the point.  Publishers need to respect and understand how the AdWords and AdSense relationship works.

I applaud Google for their policies.  If you think about it, everyone wins in the end.  If the overall quality of the publisher sites improve, more AdWords advertisers may opt in to display their ads on our sites, thus giving us publishers the opportunity to earn more.

In the last two months my AdSense earnings are up quite a bit.  Some analysts speculate Google’s cleanup and stricter policies are causing more AdWords advertisers to opt into advertising on the publisher sites.

There’s no way I can know this for sure, but I wouldn’t doubt this has an impact.

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Note:  After this post was published, I was informed that people are still able to get accepted prior to owning their domain for six months.   So it appears that Google may take the quality of your content into consideration.  Nevertheless, it can’t hurt to wait.  You aren’t going to make much with AdSense unless you have the traffic anyway.earn money online free .earn money online fast .earn money online surveys .earn money online from home .earn money online paypal ,earn money online for kids .earn money online fast and free,earn money online free by playing games ,earn money on youtube ,earn money on the internet .earn money on the side .earn money on the computer .earn money on the weekend ,earn money on the road ,earn money on the website .best way to earn money on the web .how to earn money on the web .what is the fastest way to earn money on webkinz .earn money on facebook ,earn money on amazon ,earn money on ebay ,earn money on iphone ,earn money on tumblr ,earning money on social security .earning money on the internet .earning money from a blog ,earning money from a blogger com .earning money without a job .earning money online without any investment , earning money online without any investment in india ,earning money for college ,earning money for college students ,earning money forum ,earning money ideas ,earning money in america ,online money earning jobs ,refer a friend earn money ,earn money friend finder .earn money by watching videos ,earn money blogging ,earn money blogging uk .arn money blogging philippines .earn money bidvertiser .earn money bing . earn money bitcoin ,make money online ,make money blogging ,make money on youtube ,make money now ,make money online free ,make money online with google .make money on the internet ,make money on the internet blog .make money on twitter ,make money quick ,freelance jobs .freelance jobs online .freelance photography ,freelance photography chicago ,freelance writing jobs ,pay per click programs .pay per click affiliate programs .pay per click affiliate programs india ,pay per click advertising ,pay per click tips ,pay per click tips tricks ,pay per click rates ,pay per click websites ,pay per click training ways to make money online without scams make money online for free make easy money online make money from home earn extra money fast kids make money online fast for free make money online fast and free make money online fast and easy earn extra money home earn free money home make money home online jobs home work online home online surveys home paid surveys home make money online from home for free online jobs paypal work from home paypal paid surveys paypal earn free money paypal online surveys paypal make money paypal free money website fast money website jobs website work from home website adsense website how do i make money on my website how to make money on internet advertising how to make money web hosting earn money webkinz earn money website earn money webcam earn money internet make money web free money web easy money web fast money web free money website fast money website jobs website work from home website adsense website how do i make money on my website make money web how to make money on internet advertising