How To Register For Google Adsense For Free

If you are a newbie to making money on the internet, you will be told that one of the ways of making money on the internet is via Google Adsense. Today, I am going to explain to you how to register for your free Google Adsense Account. Click here if you need more explanation on Google Adsense and Google Adwords. I have been making some cool money via Google Adsense and you too can, though you have to WORK HARD and also NOT BE A CHEAT because if you try to cheat Google by engaging in Click Frauds, Google will catch you one day and you will be banned within a twinkle of an eye. I am also using this medium to tell you that the money you will be making from Google Adsense will not get you rich overnight but will be enough to buy me drinks... lol Google has been sending me my Cheques down to Nigeria and I do receive them via my Post Office mail box. You can cash them in Nigeria via Domiciliary accounts which you can open at GTB, Zenith Bank, Intercontinental Bank etc. So, How Do I Register For Google Adsense ? To get started with AdSense, follow the steps below: If you don't have a website, you can create one using Blogger. Learn more about your site's compliance with Bloggers' program policies and their tips for application success. Complete an application. When you receive an email from Blogger, submit your application for review by clicking on the link to verify your email address. Didn't receive this message? Wait to receive an email from Blogger about your application status. Once you've submitted your AdSense application and verified your email address, it typically takes 2-3 days for Blogger specialists to complete the review. However, depending on the volume of applications they receive, it may take a week or longer. As soon as we've reviewed your application, they will send you an email with details on your application status.

AdSense Help in Other Languages

Did you know that AdSense support forums are available in languages other than English? Several other forums are available for their non-English publishers (please see: Available Language Forums) and there are reasons why it's important for those who don't speak or read English well to use the forums in a language they are most proficient in.

I spend my time in the English forum because it's the only language I'm fluent in (oh, a smattering of French because it was forced on us in school but not by any means fluent) and the only language which I feel comfortable using. It's my "native tongue" and so my brain thinks in English too. What language your brain is used to using can make a difference in the way you write your question, and when it's translated to English from another language it might not always make sense.

AdSense offers a variety of help forums in different languages so that publishers can ask for and get help in their own language. Unfortunately,  not every language has a help forum which I think is kind of sad ... some of the translations we see in the AdSense-English forum are so difficult to figure out, it becomes impossible to really offer any useful help to these people. That isn't their fault of course, but it's frustrating for everyone (the helpers, and those needing help) when neither side can communicate with the other in a way that makes sense.

Even if we could take a wild guess at what the individual is asking (and sometimes we do), going into a long and detailed explanation to help them might not be that useful either. What happens when the English we use is translated to their own language? It is understandable? Can they follow the answers we've given to help resolve their issue?

That's something I don't know, but I would guess the translation from English to another language could be equally unhelpful to the user.

Here's a test I'd like try, and it would be helpful if those who do it can post a comment with their language and what this statement means to them when read in their own language:

TEST
AdSense would issue a payment if you've met all the requirements to be paid before the payment cycle begins.

It might be interesting to see what that means to people if they translate it to their own language and then read it. It could have a completely different meaning in another language.

Sometimes we can link to a page in the help the center, which "should" normally show in their own language but sometimes the help pages don't explain the answer in a way they can understand it, or we've linked to the wrong page because we didn't understand what they want.

IF there is a forum available in your language (languages available), it's best to use that if you have a technical issue that needs a long detailed answer, or something that might require  lot of troubleshooting. If you are reasonably proficient in English and can get your point across, you can use the English forums (which seem to have more helpers/TCs/Rising Stars) than some of the other language forums, but if your English is almost non-existent ... things could get a little tough in terms of providing useful help.

Sometimes it means questions go entirely unanswered because there isn't even a place to start - if we don't know what the person is asking, and can't guess what they need for help, we can't offer much in the way of help.

As much as we'd like to be able to help everyone ... sometimes we can't.

Just to give you an idea of what some of the translations give us, here's a few examples from the forums - some equate to messages we see so often that we can understand what the basic problem is (like the first one), but others are so lacking in any context and make zero sense when related to AdSense that we have no idea what type of help the person needs.

"We apologize the inconvenience differences, but we can NOT be processing the applications Andari When Singer. Our Engineering has informed On the issue of Jump singer Dan will WORK for a review to finish."

That first one is easy to figure out, but I've used it as an example of how easily a translation can go wrong!

"Q business and this award for membership to google? "

That one might be related to AdSense, but it only mentions Google so I'm not at all sure if it is related to AdSense.

"What will become of our dear?"

...ummm, to be honest, I have no idea what to do with that one.

"Hope everyone help me
Please birds sick"

That one is a little odd. There were a couple of  other lines in that question which helped to figure out (somewhat) what the person was asking, but I've no clue what "please birds sick" is means. The person didn't post in their own language, so I don't know what language they translated it from.

tumhare naye account me kya

This is one translated from Urdu to English (or that's what the translator says it did anyways). I'm afraid that one still isn't what I'd call English.

"Gima his way"

And another one to which my only answer could be:

posted by J. Gracey Stinson

Questions and Answers from the AdSense Help Forum

In the AdSense help forum there are hundreds of questions asked every day. Many of them have already been answered dozens of times by helpful publishers and by the AdSense TCs and Rising Stars.  The publishers that come to the forum are often frustrated, or confused or just in a hurry and many don't bother to search the forum for similar questions and answers.

While the forum exists to help AdSense publishers, having to respond to so many similar questions can slow things down a lot, so if you come to the forum and don't get an answer to your post right away you either need to be patient until someone finds your post, or do some searching through the forum yourself. You might find the answer you need in another post, or even in the help center itself.

If there aren't answers that seem like they fit your question, then open your own thread and wait for help.

HOW TO SEARCH THE FORUM

When you land on the homepage for the AdSense Help forum, there is a search box right at the top of the page - type in your query and you should begin to see other threads with similar questions before you even finish typing it.

If you only want to search from a specific category, when you land on the homepage choose the categories option to see a list of the categories (like payments, or getting approved, or AdSense basics) and select the category. When questions/answers from that category load there is also a search box. You can search the category for problems similar to your own and see if there is an answer to your question.

OFTEN ASKED AND OFTEN ANSWERED (in no particular order of importance)

1. How long does it take to get approved?

The simple and fast answer would be anywhere from a few days (3 according to AdSense) to several weeks, and sometimes as long as a month. If it's longer than 5 or 6 weeks, post in the forum for help.

2. How many ads can I put on my page?

This is no longer such a simple answer to this question. With policy changes, AdSense now uses a content based guideline for the number of ads you can use. See my article on AdSense Ad Limits per Page, or see the official guidelines (Valuable Inventory) in the help center.

3. How much money can I make with 1000 views? How many views to earn $100 on YouTube?

Questions like those two really can't be answered with any sort of useful answer. What each individual makes for views/impressions is based on a set of parameters, and those results can be different for each person. Depending on the type of content, the type of ads being shown, the quality of the content, the quality of the traffic, the advertisers who appear ... a person could make anywhere from 1 cent for 1000 views to $100 and it's most unlikely it's going to be $100 for the vast majority of publishers.

There is no simple answer for a question like that. In fact, there is no answer that most of us can give other than a huge range from 0 to infinity. Most of the ads that average publishers get don't pay for impressions, or only pay a fraction of a cent for 1000 impressions. The money is most often made from a click on the ad, since most advertisers pay that way.

4. When do I get paid?

The AdSense payment cycle is monthly, with payments usually being issued or processed from the 21st of the month to about the 25th or 26th of the month (see Payment timelines for more).

The payment threshold (how much you have to earn in finalized earnings) is $100 USD (or the equivalent of $100 US in your local currency), which means you won't have a payment issued if you haven't got that much showing in your Current Balance.

You also must have received and entered your PIN, entered your tax info (where required), and set up your payment method. See the AdSense Payment FAQs and the Payment Thresholds for more information.

5. Today is the 21st and I haven't been paid yet. Why?

Quite probably because it's one minute after midnight on the 21st ...

AdSense has over 2 million publishers all over the globe, so no, payments are not all issued at the same time for all publishers. It's a process that can take several days to complete. If you are due for a payment and there aren't any holds in your account then have a little patience.

And no, payments may NOT always be issued on the exact same day, even if you got your payment issued at 9:00am on the 21st for six months in a row, that doesn't mean it will always be issued then. Stuff happens, even in Google's world. It may come later in the day, or may be the next day.

According to AdSense's OWN words:

If your balance exceeds the payment threshold and you have no payment holds, you'll be issued a payment on or around the 21st of the month.

That little phrase in blue is a key point. That doesn't mean it's going to be issued ON the 21st all the time, it could be any date around that time.

6. Why didn't my PIN arrive?

That's sort of like asking "why is the sky blue?".  Once AdSense issues the PIN it's put in the mail ... snail mail (or, regular postal services). After that it's up the postal services to make sure they deliver it to your address.

As long as the address is correct in your AdSense account the postal service should be able to deliver it to you. (See PIN Problems for additional explanations.)

7. How to contact AdSense through email?

There isn't an easy way to contact AdSense directly unless you qualify for it. If you do, there will be a contact link in your AdSense account under the "help" option in the sidebar. If you don't have a contact link, you can't send them a direct email. Note that the "feedback" section isn't for AdSense help.

If some other publisher gives you an email address to try, most likely what you'll get back is an email asking you to use the forum. They won't respond to a publisher who doesn't qualify for direct email support.

There is, however, also AdSense on Twitter which sometimes has good, quick responses.

8. How to get the old AdSense dashboard back?

If you've recently noticed that the AdSense interface in your account has changed and you can't find a way to change back to the old one ... guess what? You can't. Once it's gone, it's gone for good.

posted by J. Gracey Stinson

Scam Warning - or Is AdSense a Scam?

Of course AdSense isn't a scam. But this is something we see asked in the forum on a pretty regular basis. If it was a scam, you don't think they'd still be in business do you? AdSense have been one of the most recognized, most trusted (and sometimes most maligned) ad services for over 10 years. You don't have a long-running business like that if you really do perpetrate scams on people.

Having said that, I'm sure a lot of people are thinking "oh sure, you'd say that because you help them" ... well, I don't actually help them. The purpose of the forum isn't to help AdSense, it's to help publishers.

Many of the people who come to the forum yelling "AdSense is a SCAM" have already been paid, multiple times. So the question I ask is ... how is this a scam? Scams don't pay you at all, in fact, scams don't pay anyone. With over 2 million publishers, the majority receiving regular payments, how is it a scam?

It really isn't. A percentage of those yelling "scammer" are the people who are violating policies (some of them on purpose, some of them by accident, or simply because they lack knowledge).  Lots of publishers out there simply don't understand that to get paid, you have to follow the rules. Others don't even realize what the requirements are for AdSense, and fall afoul of the policies by accident, or by signing up with some promotional site that tells them it's safe for AdSense (most aren't, just so you know).

And in any automated system, there are sometimes glitches where an individual might not get their payment issued, but those are usually rare and they can be fixed. For those whose earnings are returned to the advertiser ... there generally isn't a glitch or error. It's also not a scam. It's part of the terms.

Did you read and agree to the Terms & Conditions when you signed up for AdSense? If so, believe it or not, you agreed to abide by AdSense's decisions. Or, did you just click "I agree" without actually reading it? If you are one of the pubs who didn't read that document you might want to take the time to do it, before some ugly surprise shows up in your inbox. It's always smart to know what you are getting into.

Section 5 of the agreement refers to the Payments - here is an excerpt from that section:

5.    Payments

Subject to this Section 5 and Section 10 of these AdSense Terms, you will receive a payment related to the number of valid clicks on Ads displayed on your Properties, the number of valid impressions of Ads displayed on your Properties, or other valid events performed in connection with the display of Ads on your Properties, in each case as determined by Google.  

Unless expressly authorized in writing by Google, you may not enter into any type of arrangement with a third party where that third party receives payments made to you under the Agreement or other financial benefit in relation to the Services.

Payments will be calculated solely based on our accounting. Payments to you may be withheld to reflect or adjusted to exclude any amounts refunded or credited to advertisers and any amounts arising from invalid activity, as determined by Google in its sole discretion.  Invalid activity is determined by Google in all cases and includes, but is not limited to, (i) spam, invalid queries, invalid impressions or invalid clicks on Ads generated by any person, bot, automated program or similar device, including through any clicks or impressions originating from your IP addresses or computers under your control; (ii) clicks solicited or impressions generated by payment of money, false representation, or requests for end users to click on Ads or take other actions; (iii) Ads served to end users whose browsers have JavaScript disabled; and (iv) clicks or impressions co-mingled with a significant amount of the activity described in (i, ii, and iii) above.  

In addition to our other rights and remedies, we may (a) withhold and offset any payments owed to you under the Agreement against any fees you owe us under the Agreement or any other agreement, or (b) require you to refund us within 30 days of any invoice, any amounts we may have overpaid to you in prior periods.  If you dispute any payment made or withheld relating to the Services, you must notify Google in writing within 30 days of any such payment.  If you do not, any claim relating to the disputed payment is waived.  If an advertiser whose Ads are displayed on any Property defaults on payment to Google, we may withhold payment or charge back your account.

To ensure proper payment, you are responsible for providing and maintaining accurate contact and payment information in your Account.  You are responsible for any charges assessed by your bank or payment provider.

 Full Terms & Conditions Link

It's rather interesting to note that many of the people coming to the forum haven't actually read or understood that document, or at least that part of the document.

Over and above all of the foregoing, most people who follow the rules and don't get into any sort of hinky/funky situations will receive their payments regularly. There isn't any scam here, except that perpetrated by those who think it's okay to make money without regard to how you make it. The world has rules ... so does AdSense.

And just so you know, this isn't something that's exclusive to AdSense advertising. All ad companies have rules - some differ from AdSense and may not be quite as strict, while others have rules that are almost identical to AdSense. If you use ads from other companies on your sites along with AdSense, and haven't taken time to read the terms of those other companies ... well, you just might want to take the time to do that. While AdSense is a widely used product, there are many other advertisers whose ads appear on sites along with AdSense. If you use multiple advertising companies, it's always a good idea to check each advertiser's regulations to keep your income stream running smoothly.

AdSense does have appeal options for some publishers, so disabled accounts can often use the appeals process but there is no appeal for temporarily suspended accounts, and as far as I know, there isn't any way to appeal earnings that have been removed (for invalid activity) and returned to the advertiser.

The terms state:

If you dispute any payment made or withheld relating to the Services, you must notify Google in writing within 30 days of any such payment.

As far as I can tell, that isn't part of the appeal process and most likely, you would need to send that notice by regular postal services to AdSense, since there generally isn't an email address to send it to. The address shown at the bottom of the terms page is the only contact they give. See: Google Contact

posted by J. Gracey Stinson

AdSense Payment Finalizing and YouTube Earnings

Boy, do I hate payment finalizations and payment issue times in the AdSense forum.  Before I get started ... I do want to apologize for stepping outside of my usual decorum when writing for publishers. This post is "as I feel" ... which means a little frustrated (cause, you know, I am human too, just like every other publisher).

 Every month it's the same thing, and every month it isn't just new publishers that freak out if their earnings aren't finalized one minute after midnight on the day  the finalizations begin (the first of the month for websites/blogs, and the 11th of the month for YouTube).

One minute after midnight ... really people? Have a little patience. Please!

I get it - new publishers who just started might not understand how this works, but a lot of people in the forum who squawk about it happening late are not new publishers. Just because last month or the month before you got finalized earnings on a certain day doesn't mean it's going to happen EVERY month on the same day. Finalizing earnings happens during a time period - "from" and "to" means anytime in between those days.

Getting earnings finalized isn't like getting a paycheque from your employer. Employer's issue paycheques on a schedule, like every Thursday or Friday (weekly), or the last day of every second week, or the 15th and 30th of a month. That's entirely different than what AdSense does. You don't work for AdSense. They aren't your employer, and things don't work the way they do with a real world job. AdSense isn't your "job".

If you have a website or blog, you should see finalized earnings every month from the previous month, and that happens ANYTIME between the first of the month, and the 7th of the month. So using this month (Feb. 2017) as an example, January's estimated earnings from your site would be finalized sometime between the 1st and 7th of February ... not necessarily 12:01am on the 1st of February.

If you are earning from YouTube, it can happen anytime between the 11th and 15th of the month ... ANYTIME ... regardless of what day you got it last month, or the month before.

C'mon people, you're driving us nuts with this stuff. Sure, we like to help people understand things but it's getting a little much. After one or two months of it, you should be understanding how it works.

So, no more freak outs because you didn't get it on exactly the day you "normally" do ... there isn't any "normal" day with Adsense and if you use AdSense long enough, you'll eventually (I hope) come to understand that there is very little in the way of "normal".

The payment process and timelines are pretty regular, but because they aren't specific days the day it happens (or the date) may not be the exact same all the time, nor will it be the same for all publishers. There's a time frame because it isn't even possible to review and finalize the earnings for over 2 million publishers in a day or two.

I've written about the payment process before ... and even updated it but finally guys, finally in the end ... you got to me. Stop freaking out over the finalizing of earnings and take time to learn what the time frames really are.

Oh, and on the off-chance that you don't see finalized earnings come payment time (the 21st of the month), maybe then you can worry a little.

posted by J. Gracey Stinson

Approved but can't access the "MyAds" Tab in AdSense?

We've seen a lot of issues in the AdSense help forum lately with respect to the current approval process. (I say current, because it seems to be constantly changing over this last year.)  While it can be a little confusing, if you received this email (see below), then you should read the email very carefully. Nowhere in it does it say your account has been approved yet to show ads on your blog or website. It basically says you've passed the first stage of the approval process.

Your application has been successfully reviewed. Now you need to create your first ad unit and place the ad code on "yourwebsite.url" to fully activate your account.

Note that before your account is fully activated only blank ads will appear on your pages. Once your account is fully activated you'll receive a confirmation email and begin to see live ads. Please don't click on your live ads even to test them - doing so isn't permitted by the AdSense program policies.

Sign in to Google AdSense to create your first ad unit and get fully approved.

See that part in blue? That's telling you that you still haven't completed the process. What it doesn't tell you is that the second part of the process involves another review of your website or blog.

And although there are places in the help center that tell you the process is 3 days or 5 days, in a lot of cases, the process is much longer for the second review. We've seen it take anywhere from a few days, to as long as a month for publishers to have a second review completed, so you need to be patient during this time.

The other thing they don't really mention is the fact that on some sites (often those with lower traffic levels) it can take a while for the ad code to generate enough impressions to begin the review. Since the code they issue initially (for those who have the code) is "page-level" ads, you wouldn't see any ads on your site at any time from that code. Page-level ads only show on mobile views.

For those who actually placed standard AdSense for Content ads (see blogger or wordpress below), ads might show up during the early stages of the review while gaining enough impressions to begin the second review, but once they have shown for a while, the ads will go blank while AdSense completes the review.

Other issues in that approval email are the fact that they ask you to create an ad code, but in many accounts the "MyAds" tab is greyed out (inactive), meaning you can't actually create a new ad unit.

For people using blogger, if you enabled the earnings tab on blogger to show ads or used AdSense gadgets, then you have ad code already in your site. You don't need to create any more. On wordpress, if you use the official wordpress AdSense plugin, you also can place ad code without having to add any more.

In some cases you might see the option to "get code again" ... which tends to mean you have already got the ad code at some point - either in one of the emails AdSense sent you, or the first time you logged into your account. If you click the "get code again" option, you "should" be able to get the code if you didn't already get it.

If they gave you a code snippet to place in the <head>  area of your site, that's the ad code they want you to place. You don't need to place any more ad code until after they approve your site. Below would be the code they give you (where the ca-pub shows xxxxx below, would be your own publisher ID)

<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({
 google_ad_client: "ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxx",
 enable_page_level_ads: true
 });
</script>

And that is the ad code you need to place. If you've got that in the source code of your site/blog, then all you have to do is wait until the review is completed.

While there is no guarantee that AdSense will approve any website or blog, if your site meets all the guidelines and is a subject they are interested in monetizing with their ads, once you receive the final approval notice notice your ads would begin to show to your visitors.

Oh yeah ... one other thing. Remember back at the start where I said read the email carefully? See this part of the email?

Please don't click on your live ads even to test them - doing so isn't permitted by the AdSense program policies.

That's important. Very important, so pay attention to it. You may not test your ads by clicking them to see if they work. Not if you want to keep your account. You also may not ask other people to click your ads to test them out. If the ads are visible, and are accruing impressions in your account then they work. It's that simple.

A disabled account can be a lifetime issue, so don't do something that might get you removed from AdSense forever. Testing the ads isn't worth the consequences.

posted by J. Gracey Stinson