Denied to Sign up for Adsense

[parasite1526]

I tried to sign up for Google AdSense and they wrote me back saying " ... our specialists have found that the website currently associated with your account does not meet our program criteria."

I am not sure what I did wrong and they said they don't respond to e-mails about why you didn't get approved specifically, so writing them is out of the question.

I submitted the URL of suchgreatheights.com as the site I'd use the AdSense on and used a different domain name for email address, could this be it? Could it be our site is selling a service and if we use AdSense the ads will be for other people selling the same service we provide? Aren't there a bunch of sites like this? Am I voilating any Google webmaster rules? Maybe new SEO rules. I hope not.

I am confused, can anyone shed some light on this for me.

I want an AdSense account, so I tried signing up again, this time with a different email (gmail.com actually) and using my other site as the URL.

Thanks in Advance,
Sean

[ruggent18200]

They may just be making it tougher to get an AdSense account, as the publisher demand has finally caught up with the advertiser demand. If they let everyone signup, most ads would end up being PSA.

- Shawn

[fish4886]

Here are the official rules from https://www.google.com/adsense/policies:

Site may not include:

Excessive profanity
Hate, violence, racial intolerance, or advocate against any individual, group, or organization
Hacking/cracking content
Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
Pornography, adult, or mature content
Gambling or casino-related content
Excessive advertising
Pop-ups, pop-unders or exit windows that interfere with site navigation, obscure AdWords ads, change user preferences, or are for downloads. Other types of pop-ups, pop-unders, or exit windows may be allowed, provided that they do not exceed a combined total of 5 per user session
Deceptive or manipulative content or construction to improve your site's search engine ranking, e.g., your site's PageRank
Site must also adhere to Google's WebMaster Guidelines, found at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html or such other URL as Google may provide from time to time.


Your site looks fine to me. Perhaps you just caught one of the underpaid flunkies at Google on a bad day.

Probably they decided that "SEO" meant something bad.

Try again and you'll most likely get a different flunkie. :-)

[parasite1526]

SGH, thank you for sharing. I set up a site for my wife and registered it in my name. Google turned her down for AdSense and now I think I know why...

[fish4886]

Jackpot... I changed the registration and she reapplied. She was accepted within a day. Thanks again SGH!

[parasite1526]

Jackpot... I changed the registration and she reapplied. She was accepted within a day. Thanks again SGH!
Hey I'm glad my blunders can help others.
This is a lesson for all.

[fish4886]

Hey I'm glad my blunders can help others.
This is a lesson for all.

Did you end up changing your whois record also or was the email from your domain enough? Also did you have a recent increase in your pagerank? That also might be a factor.

[parasite1526]

Did you end up changing your whois record also or was the email from your domain enough? Also did you have a recent increase in your pagerank? That also might be a factor.
No I didn't change my Whois records. Just the email from my domain was enough.
I saw no recent change in my pagrank.

[fish4886]

Yes you can sometimes get denyd acsess.

[fish4886]

Your best bet is to email them and ask the reason.