How to Appeal AdSense Refusal

[sweetberry]

Hi,
I want to know the best way to appeal a refusal by Google to accept my site into the AdSense program. If anyone has been through the process I would appreciate some pointers on how to go about it and what are the pitfalls to avoid.

Thanks

[TheDave]

I didn't appeal my adsense refusal, and just kept on building my site (which I was doing anyway) and they came back to me, about 2 months later.

[sweetberry]

Now that IS interesting. Did you find out why you were refused in the first place?

[europeforvisitors]

I just wrote to them politely, drew attention to some facts about my site (type of content, audience, traffic, awards, lack of competing ads, etc.), and suggested that they contact me when they were ready to reconsider. They wrote back almost immediately to say they'd made a mistake and that I was accepted into the network.

Mind you, this was last June when AdSense was very new, applications were coming in by the bucketload, and the staff hadn't had much time to learn the rules or clarify those rules in "grey area" cases. (I've always assumed that I was rejected because of affiliate text links on my site; somebody probably took a cursory look at my site and thought the affiliate links were "competing text ads.")

[bluedevil]

I have the same experience as TheDave. Was first refused for one site. Then they e-mailed an approval a couple of months later.

[TheDave]

I'm not sure why they refused me, the site was very young but still had lots of content (I had just moved over from a crappy free hosting to my own domain), but not really diverse content, and some of those original pages still only show 1 or 2 ads, so perhaps they also test your site and see how many ads will match. I'd just keep working on the site, adding real content.

[sweetberry]

Thank you all for that. Based upon your comments I think that I will do a bit of tidying up on my site and then reply *politely* to the refusal email and ask Google to reconsider. I will post on this string to let you know how I get on and any other relevant info.

[sajjid]

well i think its easy to get into addsense because i really thought my site would never be accepted but still took a chance on 15 janury 2004 got the answer almost few hours later placed a link on my site and today i checked and i got $9.15 in my account cant belive what i been missing al these years.
only problem now is learning how to make it perfect so far today i have 10,283 Page impressions 12 Clicks 0.1% Clickthrough rate which i really dont understand.
i dont really care what it means because i am happy chappy free money is always welcomed

[PatrickDeese]

sajjid -

now that you are happily in the Adsense Program you may want to take a moment to reread their terms of service, especially the section where you have agreed not to make public any specifics about their program.

[loanuniverse]

sajjid: After you read the Terms of Service {by the way, you should edit your post}, the next step would be to replace the code with one that has a designated default. You are probably getting a lot of defaults.

:)

[sajjid]

>>sajjid: After you read the Terms of Service {by the way, you should edit your post}, the next step would be to replace the code with one that has a designated default. You are probably getting a lot of defaults<<

Sorry i didnt know that plus i am not able to edit that post
also can you please tell me what you mean by replacing the code i am kind lost now

[loanuniverse]

I meant: have you set up a default ad to be shown when adsense does not have an ad for your pages? With the CTR that you mentioned, I am sure you got a lot of PSAs "Public Service Announcements"

1-Go to your account -> Settings

2-Fill the blank space for alternate ads found underneath the following:

Alternate Ads (Learn more)
To replace public service ads, enter a URL for alternate ads here:

3-Click update code

4-Replace the code with this one.

Of course you must have something to show.

Regarding your post, I think that some users here don't have that capability turned on. You can probably sen a private message to the moderator and ask nicely that she edits it for you. I hear she takes lattes for payment so you can try that.