Subscribe RSSI noticed an interesting thread on Digital Point with a new reason for rejection – the domain in question used to apply for Google AdSense was newer than 6 months old. This is one reason I have never heard of before, and a quick search didn’t bring up any results for the exact rejection reason:
The Domain on which AdSense ads are shown should be active for atleast 6 months.
While Google has long required that sites be established before acceptance into AdSense, usually gauged into terms of enough content on the site, and nothing “under construction”, there never was a requirement that a site couldn’t be brand new.
You also have to wonder if this might eventually be used as reason enough to disable ad serving on domains newer than 6 months on accounts that have been added to already approved accounts. It would be an easy reason for AdSense to quickly clean up accounts that are seen as “less quality” if they are adding a lot of brand new domains with spammy content.
There is nothing in the AdSense terms nor in the policies that specifically prohibits AdSense (or brand new accounts) running on sites where the domain is newer than 6 months old.
It also brings up the fact that AdSense is now checking domain registration details on new applications. I have known for quite some time that Google was checking domain registration information on new AdSense applications, with the AdSense team checking to see if the name on the AdSense account matched the domain name owner, but never to check the age of a domain before.
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AdSense rejecting new applications on new domains http://tinyurl.com/cpp847
Want to apply for AdSense? Google is now rejecting sites that were registered less than 6 months ago. http://tinyurl.com/cpp847
RT j@enstar Want to apply for AdSense? Google is now rejecting sites that were registered less than 6 months ago. http://tinyurl.com/cpp847
RT @jenstar Want to apply for AdSense? Google is now rejecting sites that were registered less than 6 months ago. http://tinyurl.com/cpp847
They should be doing the same for AdWords. Would probably save me from most ads for scam sites which keep poping up with a different domain each time
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I love your site, came here from twitter. My site is relatively new even though i am using someone’s account to serve ads to my site. she has blogs which are more than 6 months old. Would they remove the ads from my site? hope they wont ban her? wont want to get her into troubel
All you need to do is sign up for a blogger acount, setup your blog, add adsense (thru google, not blogger) then allow those ads on your new domain.
I’ve never heard of anyone being denied on blogger.
I only just registered a few domains such as http://WWW.INTERNET-MARKETING-GURU.INFO and was allowed to put adsense on them. So I assume that this limitations really only applies to new adsense publishers…
Maybe I am missing something, but what is the point of this? Couldn’t people sign up for a blogger account, create an AdSense account for their blog and then use the same code on other sites? That would defeat the 6 month waiting period, unless I am missing something. And I am not saying this because I advocate this work around… just curious. I checked the blogger features page and they still mention that you can use Adsense on your blogs: http://www.blogger.com/features#advancedFeatures
Sorry, slight clarification. The info about Adsense in Blogger is found here:
http://www.blogger.com/features#gettingStarted
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To get around this limitation, use an old blog to first get the approval, then add your new domains into adsense for content.
Google have now for many months been sending out these emails about a site being established for 6 months. This is not a new thing and if you have been reading the Google Adsense help forum you would know this.
Adsense are cracking down on the quality of websites and blogs but in my opinion too late as so many inferior sites have been accepted only to lose their account once they reach the $100 dollar threshold. Cynical people would say this is Google trying to make an extra buck… I’m cynical.
Looks like a load of rubbish to me. You don’t need half a year to make a profitable and quality website.
Nice to see them taking an aggressive approach to cut down on MFA’s.
I have never heard about this. I applied for adsense more than 2 years back. May be they have now put this rule. But, with this rule in place(if true) will make harder for webmasters to get the approval for adsense.
I could found anywhere in the adsense TOS about this. Maybe it’s not official yet?
Same reason for rejection I got in Feb-2009 for the website which is having fairly good content and no. of pages… – Vastu – Home – Tips
Adsense Publishers being rejected for domain age…this makes sense and nonsense in both ways… http://is.gd/qOQk
How about my free sub domain blogspot with more than a year! Does this sense affect to the next blogspot’s member?