Frequently Asked Questions...With Simple Answers

<p></p><div><a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=gracey"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0pt none ;" width="125" /></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=gracey"></script></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGsslQAZaIhqL58s88Z5Me9jX6EkvPinjG2AwIdegzVa_riJ0E54tjrqCLoSyaGq7PJKlHHfQrCYxIQnoxs_P2W6O1dqB1aO8vwZYSYiG5OuIksxkRg8OE5lX8Cp8menmDnhR1lTCU9cE/s1600-h/Stickgirl1.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style=""><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383870367229242290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGsslQAZaIhqL58s88Z5Me9jX6EkvPinjG2AwIdegzVa_riJ0E54tjrqCLoSyaGq7PJKlHHfQrCYxIQnoxs_P2W6O1dqB1aO8vwZYSYiG5OuIksxkRg8OE5lX8Cp8menmDnhR1lTCU9cE/s200/Stickgirl1.png" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" /></a><br />These are some of the questions we see over on the AdSense Help Forum on a pretty regular basis. In most cases, the answers are mostly simple and can be found in the AdSense Help Center pages by doing a search - a topic which we'll cover in another post.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1. How long does it take to get an Adsense account?</span><br /><br />Although the AdSense sign up pages say that you should receive a notice from them in about 48 hours, over the past year that has changed. While some applications might actually get reviewed as quickly as that, most do not. Currently it can take anywhere from a week to a couple of months.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">1(a) - Why is it taking so long?</span><br /><br />This is because the influx of applications has grown tremendously over the last year. The growth of "get rich quick" sites and scam sites using AdSense and Google to further their scam earnings has created an enormous backlog and constant increase in applications for AdSense accounts.<br /><br />Along with this, the fact that the economy all over the world has taken a nosedive over the last year and half means that individuals who would not have thought about using AdSense previously are all trying to get in on "the money", which many websites tell you is "hundreds" or "thousands" of dollars a week. Which is a very large misrepresentation.<br /><br />Because of the thousands of applications every week (perhaps even every day), it now can take anywhere from a few days or a weeks, to longer than two months. The wait time is long, and you'll need to have patience.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">2. How old do you have to be to have an AdSense account?</span><br /><br />AdSense requires that you be 18 years of age to have an account. This is because in most US states you must be 18 years old to legally enter into a contract. Agreeing to the AdSense Terms of Use is considered entering into a legal contract.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">3. How many times can we click per day?</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzf6uemTVrFix7CHVrnzNb39I891xfNK3bg9fmGT087cYgk_Li-gT6V6hOd7VmTjLarbQ28UOihCy6VweHz0JWF6bgXFy4IUPUCelVMFtjpfTE8vyygif2b5famr3idu_gld_hObRN3A/s1600-h/Stickboy5.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383870507376329602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzf6uemTVrFix7CHVrnzNb39I891xfNK3bg9fmGT087cYgk_Li-gT6V6hOd7VmTjLarbQ28UOihCy6VweHz0JWF6bgXFy4IUPUCelVMFtjpfTE8vyygif2b5famr3idu_gld_hObRN3A/s200/Stickboy5.png" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 200px;" /></a><br />Yes, we do get questions like that.<br /><br />The answer is NONE. Publishers are not allowed to click on ads on their own websites. Ever.<br /><br />If you are visiting another publisher's website you should only click on an ad if the ad is something that you are looking for or interested in. One click is enough. If you see more than one ad you are interested in, visit the site a little bit later and view the ad then.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">4. Can I use AdSense ads in my e-mails?</span><br /><br />The answer is NO. AdSense policy does not allow AdSense code to be place in an email.<br /><br />You can, however, place a simple link to your website in your email signature. You mustn't use this for sending unsolicited mass emails; that would be considered email spam and sending email spam can get your email account disabled.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">5. Can we ask visitors to click ads?</span><br /><br />Again, the answer is NO. AdSense publishers must not draw undue attention to their ads in any way.<br /><br />You may not write "please support us and visit the advertisers", "please click the ads to help me" or anything similar.<br /><br />You also may not write things like "please don't click the ads" because that draws as much attention to the ads as asking someone to click them.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">6. Is there a phone number for AdSense?</span><br /><br />I'm sure there must be one, but it's not one that we get to know about.<br /><br />A simple search for a telephone number for Google or AdSense will get you a phone number, but the phone call would be very short as it's highly unlikely you'd get past the answering receptionist.<br /><br />There really is no telephone support for AdSense publishers. Many have tried, and many have failed.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">7. What is the email address for AdSense?</span><br /><br />The email address to contact AdSense can be found throughout the <a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/support/?sourceid=asos&subid=ww-ww-et-u2u_breadcrumb&medium=link">help pages on the AdSense website</a>. Unfortunately, the only reply you will probably get is one <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense?hl=en&utm_sourceid=aso&utm_campaign=ww-en_US-et-google_forum_portal&utm_medium=link">directing you to their help forum</a>, so you might as well start there and save yourself the aggravation of waiting for an email reply.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;">8. Can I use other advertisers on my pages with AdSense ads?</span><br /><br />Yes, AdSense allows it's publishers to use other advertising and affiliate programs. They do have rules for other ads - these other ads must not be formatted to look like or be confused with Google AdSense ads.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32849">You can find out the details about AdSense requirements for using other advertisers on this page.</a>

Frequently Asked Questions...With Simple Answers

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8zjfKEgCiFzN4nxsCEiAV2kKiXn6WG09d-TDf1O23Fp2YnngrFXqKRzo-eV7Rb3pfouDRZcnWLcz70ODin1XCt7Q1gfDVK181Gc31Xp6-BusffUTAZe6Um4bqRYcyYXLCQMOLuWjhQW4/s1600-h/stickgirl9.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style=""><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396829190051863250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8zjfKEgCiFzN4nxsCEiAV2kKiXn6WG09d-TDf1O23Fp2YnngrFXqKRzo-eV7Rb3pfouDRZcnWLcz70ODin1XCt7Q1gfDVK181Gc31Xp6-BusffUTAZe6Um4bqRYcyYXLCQMOLuWjhQW4/s200/stickgirl9.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 200px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS BLOG?</span><br />A. Mostly because in the AdSense forums (where I answer questions) we see the same questions over and over again and I got tired of typing out the same answers over and over...especially when they require more than one or two lines (as you can already tell, I can be a little long-winded).<br /><br />I started the blog so I could type out long answers here, and then just link a person to the appropriate post from the AdSense forums.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">HOW MUCH DOES ADSENSE OR GOOGLE PAY YOU?</span><br /><br />A. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Pay me</span>? They <span style="font-weight: bold;">don't</span> pay me. Not anything. At least not for answering questions or posting answers in the help forum. That's volunteer work. Either you like to help out or you don't.<br /><br />There's no payment, no favours, no protection from being disabled for helping out on the forums. My account and sites get the same scrutiny as everyone else's, and could be disabled at any time if I didn't follow policy.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">YOU DON'T HAVE ANY ADS ON THIS BLOG? WHY NOT, AND WHERE CAN I SEE YOUR SITES WITH ADS?</span><br /><br />A. No, there's no ads on this blog...for a reason. I need to link this blog to the forums sometimes. I couldn't do that if there were AdSense ads on it - that would be considered unfairly promoting my own blog and sending people there to earn clicks.<br /><br />Secondly, my own opinion is that a blog about AdSense is difficult to maintain when it contains AdSense ads. For this blog to be any use I need to be able write things (answers) in it without worry about whether it meets policy or not. This blog is meant to be informational, it's not meant to earn money...at least not from AdSense. Someday in the future it might be useful to place other advertisers or affiliates on, but if I do decide it's ever ready for that, I probably won't be using AdSense.<br /><br />Where can you see my ads? Um, that's not something I'm willing to post for the world to see. People who help in the forums often get more than their fair share of click-bombers, harrassment, and stalkers (cyber types) because of the answers they sometimes have to give.<br /><br />But for those who think because there's no ads here I don't use AdSense, the answer is I do use it, but not on all my sites. Only on those I feel are suitable for AdSense.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">WHY DO YOU HAVE THOSE WEIRD CARTOON PEOPLE?</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1cToknhMmWgMKHrXmjkAJ7CmmdwtjEdZ0KKgNog_TXYufX5xYFAgRKcz3fNIMBz8ZuSY0efetU73h7CBB0q-caUu1NO-KUC82CMxxKPeZxJtO2nS9ttHvToL-R4Nvusfb7iz_WktyJlg/s1600-h/Snap142.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396829534688560738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1cToknhMmWgMKHrXmjkAJ7CmmdwtjEdZ0KKgNog_TXYufX5xYFAgRKcz3fNIMBz8ZuSY0efetU73h7CBB0q-caUu1NO-KUC82CMxxKPeZxJtO2nS9ttHvToL-R4Nvusfb7iz_WktyJlg/s200/Snap142.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 178px;" /></a><br /><br />A. Ah. Well, AdSense is a serious business for some people, and their problems or frustrations sometimes seem insurmountable, so the stick people keep the blog on a lighter note, while still allowing me to provide useful information.<br /><br />They were created for my grandchildren as t-shirt designs, hence the childlike art.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">HOW DO I GET TO BE AN ADSENSE PRO?</span><br /><br />A. Why are you asking me? I don't work for AdSense or Google. AdSense Pros are employed by Google. That really has nothing to do with my blog.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">HOW COME YOU'RE SO MEAN?</span><br /><br />A. How does one answer that?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">HOW DO YOU FIND ALL THE ANSWERS?</span><br /><br />A. The answers to what? I don't know all the answers...like the meaning of life (still looking).<br /><br />In fact I don't know all the answers to every question, but I do know how to use the Google search function, and I know how to perform research. That's pretty much all it takes to find a lot of the answers people ask questions to.<br /><br />Some I know from experience. Others, I look for.

FAQs About This Blog

WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS BLOG? A. Mostly because in the AdSense forums (where I answer questions) we see the same questions over and over again...

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