Received this email today:
Hello Jeff,
Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after
reviewing your application, we’re unable to accept you into Google AdSense
at this time.We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.
Issues:
– Under construction
———————
Further detail:
Under construction: We’ve found that your site’s pages are incomplete or
under construction. To be considered for AdSense, we require websites to
be fully launched and functioning, allowing users to navigate throughout
your site with a menu, sitemap, or appropriate links. Your site must also
contain enough content for our specialists to review and to display
relevant ads. Once the majority of your site is complete and functional,
we’ll be happy to reconsider your application.———————
You can find more details and application tips at
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75109.
Has anybody else anywhere ever been turned down for Google ads?
Probably not.
Yay me!
But hey, at least they bothered to write me back. Blogads won’t even return my emails…
Time again to crawl back into my giant hole of poor.
Sure, there’s plenty of room down here. The shitter’s in the corner over there.
I’m betting Google wants to see a site map, plus Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages. There’s boilerplate for both, but Google’s really looking for that site map is my guess.
And get your elbow outta my ear, man. We’re in this together.
Ah, the servant-master relationship where formerly there’d been a client-service provider relationship. Thank our progressive, entitlement-minded, top-down postmodern cesspool – how many times do we unconsciously utter our thank you’s to the Walmart checker who was kind enough to take our cash?
Not to mention I drove revenue to them for 3 years or so before moving to Pajamas Media (the latter being the beginning of the end for both me and this site).
I bet if you changed “because not just anybody can summarize the news” to “Workers Of The World, Unite!”, you’d be golden.
Seriously, I’d go back with “WTF is wrong with the site? Because a site with coming up on 868,000 comments is hardly under construction…”
Bleep bleeping bleeper of a FireFox keeps remembering my bleeping temp sockpuppets. Grrrrrrr.
It must be Bush’s fault.
I bet the Dark Lords Cheney and Rove are behind it.
Who knew there’d be fans of Jake Shannon over at Google.
It’s always Bush’s fault. I think that’s in college text books by now. And a standard punt answer on high school tests.
Gotta go with Mary on this. Maybe if you were seen holding hands in public with a certain mad king someone from another formerly conservative site. Or adopted a stance on fur?
They let me in, but then they kicked me out again.
They didn’t like it when I told my readers to click the ads. They didn’t like it when I told my readers NOT to click the ads. There was just no pleasing them.
Mine either. I suspect they simply have yet to master the “Send” button in Outlook Express.
Hey JD! Just because I used The Force to keep McCamey down Tuesday night is no reason to get pissy!
I need a business manager. Or agent. Who is willing to work for a percentage.
Of nothing.
Takers?
Really? A business manager? How big a percentage?
We’ll make it up in volume, I tells ya!
You should complain. It’s probably some low level lefty at Google who hates Conservatives.
It’s good to hear that Google claims to have specialists who can read for content. (Whether they actually do or not is another question though, it appears.) Yet, how one’s case would reach those specialists is a distinct puzzle when that case has to — but can’t — proceed through the mediation of a layer of non-readers.
I’d do a quick scan of all your internal and external links. Could be their web crawler is hitting dead links. Or they simply typed the URL wrong and got protienwisdom.com instead.
I have no idea how to do that.
I recommend dragooning a tech-savvy and trustworthy regular to comb over PW from the admin side, if Google is really having a technical problem with the site. I also recommend being persistent, just as if you were leg-wrestling with the insurance company over a denied or under-paid claim.
I ran google ads at my place for some time before giving them up. No problems, other than I didn’t earn anything.
Oh, and while I’m trustworthy and regular, I’m not tech-savvy, so I recuse myself.
I don’t know nothin’ ’bout debuggin’ no WordPress.
“allowing users to navigate throughout your site with a menu, sitemap, or appropriate links”.
Well, I mean, there’s no menu or sitemap, and I think they’re thinking “latest comments” and “greatest hits” aren’t exactly gonna be sufficient “appropriate links”.
Throw up a cheap sitemap or some links by category or author and try again?
I mean, maybe they just meant what they said in the boilerplate?
Good win, Darth. My team frustrates me, but the Fuckeyes are good. Damn good. At least their starting 5.
Hi, Jeff.
I guess now you know why I use Bing.
Google is comparable to NBC – “in the pocket”, so to speak.
As your [auditioning] agent, I’d suggest you advertise free porn. They won’t turn you down.
What?
You’d make money, and we’d probably get better trolls.
More interesting trolls anyway.
“I worship the Obama…and have a foot fetish.”
Look it, educated discussion (when I’m not around) + free tits ‘n ass in the side bar.
Everybody wins.
Benjamins, Jeff.
You deserve them.
I’d say that was Amazon’s gain and Google’s loss.
I received the exact same email.
ditto what McGehee said at #12.
RACISTS!!!
Non-functional?
I’ve got five bucks says they mis-spelled “protein”…
Have you ever had a conversation with Andrew Breitbart about this advertising underwriting stuff Jeff? I wonder if he doesn’t have some expertise in these matters, or in the alternative, knows people who do?
I’m going with the notion that all the links are “inappropriate.” There’s links on here to stuff about nipples, fer cryin’ out loud!
Is the site running odd today?
Is the site running odd today?
Even. It is the fourth, after all.
March forth everyone. March forth.
Blogads won’t even return my emails…
Maybe because you gots no site meter and they can’t tell if you gots the traffic.
Or not.
Seriously? Dude! The accepted me. ME! Yeah, silly, huh?
But really, they turned you down? There should be an appeal process.
I won’t ever mention that BlogAds accepted me, too. That’d just be piling on.
I don’t know what to recommend, except to follow TSI’s suggestion to let SBP or sdferr or someone else trusted and very knowledgeable about WordPress under the hood to check it all out. Someone needs to create a site map. Preferably located from a tab bar, linked to several new pages: an “About” page, a site map page with category links to the wealth of your 17K+ posts, and possibly even a products page, where you can sell pw gear.
You should probably consider having a sidebar full of (hate to say this, but…) links to friendly sites. Throw up some of Andrew Breitbart’s new offerings. Give some linky love. In other words, put out a friendly hand, and others will reciprocate. That’s what this web game is all about; links. Google loves some links they can crawl in and around on. If they find dead ends, they throw up their hands and send out boilerplate.
RS McCain is the official ‘excellence in blogwhoring’ winner of the past couple years. He’s got a post on how to get a million hits on your blog, and he’s done just that, plus many more. Might as well follow the herd, I suppose. Unless you want to be like me: doing this crap ‘just for fun’.
Tonight’s the big night for unleashing the uncapped NFL season. Brandon Marshall is likely just a side note in Broncos‘ history.
In other words, put out a friendly hand, and others will reciprocate
On the other hand…
Happy to help you out with some of this, being a grease monkey (not SAE certified) for the interwebs. I go through this at least once a week for somebody.
FWIW, though, I got kicked out of G-Ads for having poker ads. Said poker ads make me roughly $200 per month, which is about 250% more than I ever made in my best YEAR with G-Ads, so, adios, mofo. But I hit a nice seam at the right time — I’m not sure what will be the next poker. Gambling on what industry gets nationalized next and selling short, perhaps.
Try making your monthly archives an actual list of links instead of a drop down selection list. Wouldn’t that be a ‘site map’ ?
Google can’t deal with a drop-down list for archive links? That is so 1999!
One quick fix should do it.
Then: PROTEIN WISDOM
Now: PROleTarEIN* WISDOM
*They won’t know how it’s supposed to be spelled anyway.
Working on a better gig and, it seems, finally making some progress. Details not at 11:00, but maybe after Monday’s conference call with the angels.
Jeff, rejections from adsense are extremely common. Nothing personal there.
Working on a menu structure should be your biggest priority. Academia, humor, literature, and of course politics are places to start. Take a look at Huffpo for inspiration here.
It’s a very successful model. I would also suggest a Writer’s category, with links to the main page and also the Pub.
A couple random clicks on your auto quote generator resulted in broken links. Get rid of them. Your Denver link is also broken. Go through your archives and make sure those are
all working. I know you’ve changed servers before so just verify that they take you to a working page.
A blogroll would help, as well as links to categories that might be listed on your menu structure. A commenting and contributing policy couldn’t hurt.
Your traffic can be analyzed very easily, so a site meter is not necessary. They will be looking at recent info, so your traffic from several years ago is not relevant, and short term spikes
really do not mean anything.
It will take work and time, but I have no doubt you can build the site and traffic back to where it was a few years ago, if you are serious about it. What you want is steady progress, which is
not quick.
If you are still interested in the pay model, WordPress does have some widgets for converting a site now.
Hope this helps.