Adsense

"Low value content." Two words that told me absolutely nothing and somehow made me feel personally judged at the same time. I googled that exact phrase probably fifty times over…

My first AdSense rejection email showed up on a Tuesday morning, right when I was drinking my coffee and feeling pretty good about myself. I'd spent three weeks writing what…

After my second rejection, I got genuinely obsessive about this. I made an actual physical checklist, printed it out, taped it above my desk, and refused to let myself click…

Over the past year or so, I've ended up helping four different people get their first blog approved for AdSense — a cousin, a former coworker, a guy from a…

I remember exactly where I was when the rejection email landed — sitting in my kitchen, actually testing a recipe for the blog, flour literally on my hands, when my…

The second rejection hit different than the first. The first time, I figured I just didn't know what I was doing yet, which was fair, because I really didn't. The…

I've applied for AdSense on four different sites now, at different points, in different conditions. The review times were wildly different — one took 23 days, one took 6, one…

My first blog ever was about houseplants. I started it because I'd just kept a fiddle leaf fig alive for six whole months, which felt like a genuine achievement at…

Somewhere around my second rejection, I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole of videos titled things like "AdSense Approval in 24 Hours GUARANTEED" and "The Secret Trick Google Doesn't Want…

I had a spreadsheet. A genuinely embarrassing spreadsheet where I tracked every AdSense application attempt, the date, and the rejection reason (or lack of one, since the emails never really…