With Only A Blogger Blog, Do Not Apply To AdSense

Some blog owners are becoming confused by the AdSense activation process, and are applying directly to AdSense.

If you apply directly to AdSense, you will be applying for an AdSense For Content account. AdSense For Content requires a properly qualified top level domain website.

If you have a fully qualified top level domain website - or a Blogger blog already published to a custom domain, again, fully qualified - you can add a Blogger blog published to BlogSpot, as an additional ad host. If, like many Blogger blog owners, your blog is your first step in Internet activity, you cannot accomplish anything by applying directly to AdSense.

With a Blogger blog published to BlogSpot, you need a Blogger Hosted AdSense account.

Blogger Hosted AdSense accounts are only available from the Earnings page.

You get a Hosted account by using the Blogger dashboard Earnings page - when the Earnings page becomes active.

When your blog is eligible to apply for a Blogger Hosted AdSense account, using the Earnings page, you may get misleading advice from AdSense.

"Congratulations!

Your Google AdSense application has been approved. You'll soon begin to see relevant ads appear on (your blog)."



AdSense has a two step approval process - and this is the first step.

When you receive the congratulations, do not immediately begin spending the money. This notice is currently being sent to many blog owners - some with completely unsuitable blogs, who will never see ads.

If you apply directly to AdSense, and are instructed to install ad code - don't.

In some cases, you may apply directly to AdSense - and you may be instructed to install ad code, available from the AdSense website. This will bring you no close to seeing ads, on the blog.

AdSense For Content ads will not appear, on a Blogger blog published to BlogSpot - again unless the account is already fully approved, based on a properly qualified top level domain website.

If you have a properly qualified top level domain website, you are probably not wasting time reading this. You are either working on your blog and / or website - or are somewhere else, spending the mega bucks.

When your blog is eligible to host ads, Blogger will activate the Earnings dashboard page - and you can use the automated ad installation. You don't need to hand install AdSense ads, on a Blogger blog - and you gain nothing by doing so.

If you just setup your Blogger blog, leave it published to BlogSpot.

A new Blogger blog, published immediately to a custom domain, will not fast track eligibility for ads. AdSense For Content requirements are more stringent than Hosted AdSense accounts.

Leave your Blogger blog published to BlogSpot - until it is full and properly approved, and ads appear, using Blogger Hosted AdSense. Then read about, understand, and plan for your blog to undergo the AdSense account upgrade process.

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Some #Blogger blog owners, eager to begin hosting AdSense ads, grow impatient from inability to use the Blogger dashboard Earnings page to setup their blog with ads. They apply directly to AdSense, hoping to speed up the ads activation process.

Normally, they will receive advice from AdSense that they should apply through Blogger (and the Earnings page) - but some receive instructions about installing ads from the AdSense website. Having installed the ads, they wait in vain for the ad content to immediately appear.

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With AdSense, Congratulations Is Only The Beginning

We have a few blog owners, reporting in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue, who are unaware of the AdSense approval process.

I was approved for AdSense - but my ads are not showing up. What is wrong?

This blog owner is apparently unaware of the two stage AdSense approval process.

Eligibility gives a blog owner the ability to place ad code on the blog. Actual ad content will appear later - after the blog has received final approval, and after the AdSense crawler has chosen ads for the blog.

AdSense offers congratulations, when a blog is eligible to apply to host ads.

This notice is the beginning, and is based on eligibility to apply.

Many blog owners are getting this notice - with blogs completely unsuitable to host AdSense ads.



AdSense explains the approval process in detail, in AdSense Help: Can't see my ads troubleshooter

Have you received an approval email saying that your account has been fully approved and ads should start to show on the pages of your site?

We have a two-step approval process for all accounts in AdSense.

The first step in the process is a preliminary check on your site and your account details. After you pass this step, you get AdSense account access and can place AdSense ad code directly onto your site.

The second step in the application process requires that you implement the ad code onto your site. Please note that blank ads will be served at this stage. Once you've started generating ad impressions, your site will be re-reviewed by our specialists. When you're approved at this second and final stage, you'll begin to see live ads appear on your site.

I've seen suggestions that email is sent, when final approval for ads is issued. Note that email will be received only if you provided an active and valid email address.

"Congratulations" encourages you to install ad code - ads are not a done deal.

Congratulations are being received, for some blogs with insufficient content - and others with completely unsuitable content.

The blog has insufficient content. Only a dozen posts, none over 200 words each. And, it's another tech blog, with content scraped from other blogs and websites.

Also, your command of the English language is not all that good - and this is an important requirement, with AdSense.

"Congratulations" is only the start of the activation process.

This notice is only part of the AdSense activation process. After ad code is installed, the blog is reviewed for suitability, and the AdSense crawler then chooses ads based on the content.

And activation is only a start, to making money.

Your blog needs far more content, than what is required for eligibility - or even for having ads appear, on the blog. Don't look for a consistent minimum qualification level, for hosting ads.

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Some #Blogger blog owners receive a congratulatory AdSense notice - and think that they will immediately be seeing ads, and receiving payments.

They do not understand that eligibility to apply only means the start of the approval - and later ad selection - process. And even with ads appearing, they will need more content, to make AdSense a worthwhile blog feature.

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