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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…

A guy in a Facebook group I'm part of posted his analytics dashboard last year, bragging a bit — 4,000 visitors that month, all organic, mostly from Pinterest and Google.…

There's a specific kind of embarrassment in checking your AdSense application status every twenty minutes for three days straight, refreshing the same page like it's going to change if you…

I still remember the first email. Subject line: "Your AdSense application has been reviewed." My stomach did that little flip you get before opening exam results. I clicked it, half…