Adsense not accepting paid sites

[rajdutt]

A small trouble but big enough to upset me. I have a website on angelfire.com which I wanted to make money so I paid Angelfire.com to make it ad free. I have a paid web site on angelfire.com now.

However, adsense continues to say in its support emails that due to the agreement with lycos, they will not display ads on angelfire.com/../.. websites and hence cannot include this website in their adsense program. Even I stated it clearly to google in my email that mine is a paid site, they maintain their stand that although it is a paid website, they will not accept it.

Interestingly, when I wrote to angelfire.com, they clealy said that the agreement is for free sites only and the paid websites are not covered and hence adsense ads can be diaplayed by the person who paid the money.

I do not want to go for a domain name as I already have a no 1 ranking on google, yahoo and others for certain keywords and hance angelfire.com/../.. url does not harm me.

Not a question for a lot of money but to me it felt like another sort of bureaucratic insensitivity in a large organization.

[kartiksh]

Reply to adsense support with quotes and contact at anglefire if that helps them to rereivew your account.

Or- have new domain and website built up redirecting all angelfire pages to new one.

[Hobbs]

another sort of bureaucratic insensitivity in a large organization

True it can feel this way, but the more your site grows, the more you will understand Google's predicament, you set up systems to automate without which you can go under, it can be that to detect the difference between a paid site and a free angelfire site, google would need to either develop a code specific to angelfire or have to manually review all angelfire applications, the less manual reviews google has to make the less human (the most expensive ingredient) resources tied down. You are lucky you received specific reasons from the support in the first place.
Good luck moving into your own domain, who knows, maybe you will enjoy more traffic going that way on the long run.
And welcome to WW.

[jomaxx]

Maybe this would be a good time to bite the bullet and get your own domain. You might be surprised how many benefits there are from having a real domain.

[jchampliaud]

I'd try getting your own domain name. I think that you should be able to keep most if not all of your traffic. It might be less work than fighting the Google bureaucracy.

[martinibuster]

Get a real domain and a real webhost. A domain costs between $4.99 to $9.00. Hosting is as little as five bucks a month.

But keep your angelfire pages, just put a link to your new domain, that way all the IBLs going to there will transfer to your new domain. Afterward contact whoever is linking to you to get them to link to your new domain. I'm assuming you might not be able to 301 your angelfire pages.