Getting AdSense is easier than people imagine! Unfortunately, it is true but most people often think it is difficult. The problem today is that most Bloggers start or create new blogs that look spammy (regurgitate) existing contents across other blogs. One crazy thing about AdSense is that you might not get approved even though your kind of contents are on another blog that already has AdSense. Regardless, here are some important tips to note when starting a new blog and before you apply for AdSense:
1. Always use a magazine-style theme or template to create a new blog. Fill out your homepage with good articles or about 500 - 700 words per article. The reason for this is because it is bots that assigned to vet blogs and not humans!
2. Your essential pages (about us, privacy policy, terms of use, disclaimer, contact us, etc) should be in your top bar and footer section. For a new blog, I recommend adding it to your main menu area and footer alone while adding a few of your menu. When approved, you can readjust this.
3. There is no number of days or traffic requirement to get approval. This means you can start a blog today and get approval next week. I have done this repeatedly. I create new blogs, set them up same day, fill them up with articles and apply after four days. Within two weeks, I get approval.
4. Before you apply, it is important to check the cached version of your website since that is what the AdSense vetting bots interact with. To do this, simply add "cache:" to your URL. E.g., cache:
https://babia.to will tell or reveal to you the last time Google cached the website. You can try this for your blog to see as well. It is possible that you have just posted 15 great articles that you believe will earn you approval but AdSense ended up rejecting your article. There is every possibility that the most recent articles have not been cached yet. So what do you do? What till the latest version of your website is updated in Google cache before you apply.
5. For a start, I recommend doing niche blogging. Don't write about anything that comes to mind. The reason for this is because AdSense bots use context to judge a website. A blog about cars with just 15 articles will get approved almost immediately compared to a blog with 150 articles that blog about cars, food, health, exercise and travel all rolled into one. If niche blogging is not exactly your focus, fret not because you can go back to do what you want to do after you have been approved.
Here is a caveat: Your niche should be one that has advertisers and popular.
6. There is no limit/minimum or maximum number of articles you must meet before applying for AdSense.
7. Themes or templates are more SEO-friendly than others. So it is important you find out the ones that are more SEO friendly as they will allow you get approval more quickly. For a start, I recommend Newspaper 10, Publisher and Voice (by Meks). There are others but these themes have a higher-approval rate compared to most. Note that YOUR HOMEPAGE SHOULD BE MAGAZINE-STYLED BEFORE APPLYING FOR ADSENSE!
8. And finally, Always check your grammar! AdSense can reject your blog, not because it is not ready or because it does not have everything needed for approval. When you make too many errors, the bots believe the blog is not fit for consumption. In most cases, you will get rejected but there will be no reason for rejection. I am not saying this is why people get those type of rejections but it is one of them.
