AdSense Is A Contextual Ad Hosting Service

AdSense requires content - substantial amounts of text content - in a supported language.

The term "contextual" means that the ads, which display on each different blog, are chosen to match the subject in the posts. This assures the ad companies, which pay for the ads hosted on the blogs, that their ads will be seen by people who appreciate the products.

With the ads carefully chosen, AdSense can confidently charge appropriately - and the blog owner can be paid to host the ads.

The blog content is analysed, by the AdSense crawler, as it reads the posts.

The AdSense crawler automatically decides what ads to show, on each blog page.

The crawler, which is similar to a search engine bot, has to be able to read the content.

• Textual content is required.
• Supported languages are required.
• Photo blogs can't qualify.
• JavaScript based templates won't show ads.
• Ads may be displayed day by day - or week by week.

Textual content is required.

The crawler decides what the blog is about, by examining the text in the posts. The posts need to have some minimum amount of text, to make this work.

Supported languages are required.

AdSense ads are designed to be read by people, in their native language. Blogs written in all languages of the world won't have ads - because AdSense does not work with ad companies which sell products for people of all languages.

Only blogs primarily written in supported languages can host AdSense ads.

Please also be aware that placing the AdSense code on pages with content primarily in an unsupported language is not permitted by the AdSense program policies.

Blogs written in Bengali cannot legally show AdSense ads, right now.


If an AdSense publisher uses a legally acquired account from another website, to show ads on a blog written in Bengali, the account will be revoked - and it's a lifetime revocation.

And what ever language you write, the blog must have proper composition, grammar, and spelling.

The minimum age for AdSense publishers is 18 years - partially because you need to have ability to write clearly, in your chosen language. Posts written by a pre teen are not accepted, for blogs hosting AdSense ads.

Photo blogs can't qualify.

The crawler can't read photos. However intriguing or scenic a photo blog may be, it's not going to be approved, to host AdSense ads.

You can include photos, on any suitable blog - but photos cannot substitute for text.

JavaScript based templates won't show ads.

This is a known problem, with the Blogger supplied dynamic templates.

Third party, JavaScript based templates will present a similar problem. Templates that provide numbered pages, and similar features, are JavaScript based. Important post content, hidden behind JavaScript, cannot be read by the crawler.

Similar to JavaScript based templates, some blog owners have added "call to action" / social networking content - JavaScript based popup windows, with "Like my blog!", "Subscribe to my blog!", and similar demands. Here, too, the AdSense crawler will be unable to read the blog.

Ads may be displayed day by day - or week by week.

Just because ads do not display today, that does not mean that they won't display tomorrow - or next week. Conversely, just because ads do display today, does not imply that they will be there tomorrow - or next week.

Ads are displayed when they are available. If your blog shows ads for a given product this week, next week those ads may be discontinued - or they may be displayed on a more interesting or relevant blog next week.

The bottom line.

If you want to host AdSense supplied ads, on your blog, you have to read and heed all AdSense Policies. This is one more requirement, in activating ads on your blog.

And right now, some blog owners may be receiving a congratulatory notice, when approval is yet to be determined.

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Some #Blogger blog owners want to use AdSense to make money with their blog - but they overlook the basic necessities of being an AdSense publisher. Besides the age / content volume issues which are easy enough to define, there is the need for AdSense to be able to properly choose ads to be shown on the blog.

The AdSense crawler, which is a robotic process similar to any search engine, determines the ads to show - if it can crawl the blog and find useful details.

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The Tower Of Babble Comes Down Slowly - One Brick At A Time

I installed the Google auto translator - using a custom front end, which I helped develop - on this blog, 5 years ago.

I installed it originally because of the February 2008 Kaspersky problem with Blogger blogs - and hastily, because of the magnitude of the problem. I knew, at the time, that the Google auto translator was not 100% accurate.

No auto translator will ever be 100% accurate. Every language in the world is always developing, as society and technology develops. There will always be nuances in every language, which are not yet detected by any one person - or by any one computer.

That said, I think that it's obvious to many people, that auto translation is a legitimate feature on the Internet.

If you've read this far, and you're using the translator to read this in a non English language, my thanks to you.

I think that the Internet in general, and Blogger blogs - and translated Blogger blogs in particular, are going to do a lot to bring the various cultures and nations of the world closer together. Being a native of the USA, I speak only English with any degree of fluency. I have, at one time, attempted both French and Spanish, as secondary languages - but this is neither the time nor place for me to discuss my experiences in France and in Panama.

I would never attempt to publish this blog, manually, in either French or Spanish - and certainly not any of the other 300+ languages which are present in the world. Since this blog has some value to Blogger blog owners and readers in general - and hopefully to some non English Blogger blog owners and readers - I think that using this blog, translated into other languages, has some value also.

If you are reading this blog in a non English language - or if you know of specific phrases or words which are not translated, successfully, by the Google translator - you are invited to suggest any appropriate improvement to Google. Translate the phrase or word in question, using the Google Translate web page - and select "Rate translation" in the lower right corner of the translation result window.

If you publish a blog in a non English language, and you don't have an auto translator gadget on your blog, I hope that you will soon add such a feature. I'll even invite you to look at Cumulus In Your Language, and see if the offered non English selections are useful to you.

Just don't dismiss auto translation, because it's not currently 100% accurate. Use it - or don't use it - on any web page where it's useful, right now. But don't dismiss it, with prejudice.

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