Valuable inventory: Scraped content

[maccas]

I have a site, it is a small directory, I allow a particular type of school to add their school so I now have a comprehensive list of all these schools in my country, with description, prices for some of them, contact details, photos, map location etc. I get loads of social shares so people must be finding it useful. I also have a travel section, that is all original content and written by either myself or my wife together with photos taken by myself. I was blown away that I have - your site isn't ready to show ads reason - Valuable inventory: Scraped content. Nothing at all is scraped and it is obvious that if you visit the site that it isn't a scrapper, the schools themselves added the listing. ANy suggestions? No way to dispute this of course. Gah.

[NickMNS]

Is it possible that someone else scraped your content and now Google (I assume) considers that site as the source?

[ClosedForLunch]

If the schools have added any text / photos themselves they may have 'copy and pasted' that from their own site. If so, you should edit the text / images to make them unique to your own site.

[maccas]

I think you are right, I wouldn't want to be a large directory with thousands of submissions about now or any site that allows user submitted content. Any idea if this a manual review or a bot comparing page content to what is already in the index?

[maccas]

Oh another thing, I do not intend to have ads on the school part of the site, just the travel part as we are in the process of becoming agents for the schools, they can book and pay through our website. Should I just remove the code from the pages where I have no intention of adding Adsense? Or is it a site-wide 'review'?

[ClosedForLunch]

On my sites I don't include any Adsense JS on pages that don't have Adsense ads. At the very least that should make those pages leaner and faster to load.

[maccas]

Sure, I don't either on my sites with AdSense. I talking about the application process, does the bot only take into account pages with the JS or the entire site. Anyone's guess I presume.

[ClosedForLunch]

Anyone's guess I presume

I've just added a new site to an existing Adsense account. Still in review after 12 days and counting.

[Sissi]

This is the new policy.
because of the number of 1000s and 1000s new sites daily, robots are deciding about the future monetization of a new site.
An appeal is also responded by another robot who apparently studied law and compliance.
In some cases there will a manual review from a human who then depending if it s a Monday or a Friday will decide.

The problem with this policy is a lack of consistency within Google.
There are cases where a website is ranked first page for the main keywords and Adsense mechanics reject it.
I can tell about more inconsistencies.

[maccas]

"There are cases where a website is ranked first page for the main keywords and Adsense mechanics reject it. ", this is my case, I rank 1st page for 3 major search queries. I think another problem is the travel section of this site was copied from a travel site I closed down 3 months ago, it was drupal site and I put it in maintenance mode. If I search for specific strings that are on the site I am applying for this site comes up, no cache and obviously a error if you visit this site. They also don't make it easy to completely remove sites from the index either. Like you I could rant and rant about Google but we are all stuck with it.

[Sissi]

@maccas
The solution is to put your new content under a existing approved website allocating a new directory.
Assuming it s about the same sector
The good news: some of the adsense banned domains are now clean but need to go through the new approval process.