I know I started this to tell about how we do on our Etsy shop, but since this is a blog, and I have YET to see a blog without ads on it, I applied for adsense to monetize my blog. And applied. And applied. And was denied, and denied, and denied. It keeps saying I don't have enough content for the crawler to pick up or their specialist to review. What the what???
Ok I know I have some pictures and links but it has plenty of words in it too. And not just random words either. Actual sentences, which flow into paragraphs, and ohmygosh, all that creates a little story on each post. What a freaking concept!!! I tried to find a way to contact them to find out what EXACTLY they expect to see before they approve an account, and so far I have not found a way to do that. I can't use the contact button, because it pops up a message that my account has been disapproved. The exact words, cut and pasted from yet another email denial are as follows:
We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.
Issues:
Insufficient content
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Further detail:
Insufficient content: To be approved for AdSense and show relevant ads on your site, your pages need to have enough text on them for our specialists to review and for our crawler to be able to determine what your pages are about.
Now seriously. If you have read any of my posts so far, you know WHAT MY PAGES ARE ABOUT. But apparently, when I resubmit, I always manage to get the brain damaged crawler, that crawled headlong into a concrete Matrix wall, and can't tell this freaking blog is about starting a shop online in a forum that caters to mostly handcrafted items. Even if the crawler can't figure this out, surely the "specialists" can? Or not. So pardon me for a moment while I get remedial for google here.
This blog is about working from home, art, crafting, starting a business, sales, frustration, success, failure, and any other descriptor you can think of. These are keywords for the crawler.
Keywords for the "specialist" will also include hooked on phonics. Maybe if they learn to read and comprehend, they can snap to the other keywords here. Sheesh.
I am going to resubmit this damn blog one more time. After that, I will just repost this particular blog post to every public online forum out there. If they can't figure out that good ads for this blog would be art related, craft related, promotion of business related, then entrepreneurs everywhere need to know so they don't waste time with it either.
End rant.
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