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How long a new website or blog wait before applying for AdSense?

December 16, 2011 by Guest Writers 83 Comments

Google Adsense LogoA lot of publishers from India and other Asian countries are puzzled on whether they can use AdSense Ads on new sites or not. Recently Google disabled a massive number of AdSense accounts from India and Pakistan which adds more to the confusion. To make it worse, Google does not mention anything in their policies for India about the minimum age requirement for blogs and websites to use AdSense Ads on the websites.

Requirement to get AdSense application approved

The AdSense approval depends a lot on the reviewer and the impression he get on the applicant and the site/blog. Google has a lot of published and unpublished rules for approval of an AdSene application, but those rules are flexible enough for the reviewer to come to his own on conclusion whether to approve or not.

There is no rule that says the blog has to have X number of visitors, Y number of pages views and so on. If you do a quick Google search, you can find a lot of confusion on the web defining the minimum number of page views and visitors a website must have to get AdSense application approved. Google looks at the quality of the content (uniqueness, well written and so on) and the nature of the website. If you have a website filled with scripts, ads, and other non-content stuff, you probably will fail to impress the reviewer. A clean site with easy navigation structure is sure to win.

If you are new to AdSense and want to apply for AdSense for your new website, I strongly suggest few things:

1. Wait several months until you have a lot of high quality articles. 6 months to 1 year is not a long wait for a life time AdSense account.

2. Wait until you have a lot of high quality article that really add value to the web. Re posting specification of latest gadgets is not really considered as high value content by Google. Rather, research on your topic of interest. If you are writing about gadgets, go to shops and take pictures comparing it with other similar products. Keep it side by side with other products and prepare comparison reports. If you are writing about tourist places, visit the place yourself and take pictures. If you are simply referring to another website and prepare an article in your own words, it is not going to be helpful.

3. Do not use a lot of scripts, ads and fancy images on your website. Visitor count, Feedburner subscriber count, List of your friends’ website etc all can wait until you get established and have your own AdSense account. (I do not mean you can have all unwanted stuff after you get the AdSense).

5. Keep the website clean and make it easy to navigate. Focus on the content. Make it easy for readers to reach various sections of the website. Provide a clean menu with limited links to your core categories.

Should a website or blog wait 6 months before using or applying for AdSense?

Google does not talk about the 6-months requirement anywhere in the policies. However, one of the help topics vaguely mention that publishers from India and China should wait for 6-months before they can apply [or, use ?] AdSense. There is no definite answer on which countries fall under this category. There is strong demand from top AdSense community to enforce this rule for all countries, which make perfect sense. No website can earn much traffic before it reach 6-months life in the web and the AdSense is not going to bring any reward for them in the site without traffic. So, why can’t webmasters wait for 6 months? Also, strictly enforcing the 6 months requirement will turn away a huge number of fraud applicants. Of course this will affect few big publishers who start new business, change domain name etc, but they always have the option to reach their AdSense account managers and get special approval. Google is not very clear on whether existing AdSense accounts can be used on new sites. I have used my AdSense on my new sites without knowing the new requirement but did not have any problems, but my friends have lost their AdSense accounts for doing the same. So, if you create a new site, just wait patiently for 6 months before you use AdSense there. After having burnt my fingers, I usually wait until my new site reach 6 months + minimum 1000 page views per day before I use my AdSense account on it.

Finally here are a few useful suggestions – First read the Google Adsense FAQ, followed by Filtering Ads, Changing Ad Colors Automatically & then reading Serious Adsense PPC Tips which can Increase your Adsense Revenue.

Guest Writer : John offers blogging tips and you can check out similar userful articles like should a blog wait 6 months before AdSense Ads can be used along with more information on how long a blog should wait before applying for AdSense.

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Comments

  1. aatif says

    December 16, 2011 at 11:52 am

    I think blog must be 6 month old to get approved . and the which gets approved before 6 month i think they have high chances of being disable !!

    Reply
  2. Jasmeet Singh says

    December 16, 2011 at 11:59 am

    Nice piece of information for the Adsense aspirants and as well as the existing publishers.
    Talking about my personal experience , when i got my adsense approved , it was my 6 months old Blogspot blog but still it was not having 1000 views per day. So page-views may not be included in the criteria.

    Reply
  3. Vikram says

    December 16, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    Nice Post..

    Reply
    • sam says

      December 21, 2011 at 7:50 pm

      nys ……true

      Reply
    • Aliyah says

      April 19, 2016 at 5:30 am

      Thank you so much . Even myself I love it too!!!!

      Reply
  4. vivek patel says

    December 16, 2011 at 1:17 pm

    Thanx, I am looking for this answer for so many days. Aapne mera problem solve kar diya, thanx a lot

    Reply
  5. vivek patel says

    December 16, 2011 at 1:23 pm

    Mujhe ek aur baat janna hai ki, it is necessary to write at least one post everyday for the application of adsence

    Reply
    • Kundan Singh says

      December 16, 2011 at 2:14 pm

      Its not a hard and fast rule to write one article/day. It all depends on quality of content (even may be weekly) and user satisfaction (more quality more visitors).
      Although writing on regular basis increase visitors interest.

      Reply
  6. Kundan Singh says

    December 16, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    Although its not officially stated but my experience says that Google is (may be was ) little easier approving for Blogpsot blogs than self hosted web-blogs.

    Reply
  7. Manish Garg says

    December 16, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    There is no need to wait 6 months for adsense approval (as i got approval within 1 month with blogspot domain) , but also it is of no use if u don’t have traffic.

    Reply
  8. Itender Rawat says

    December 16, 2011 at 4:31 pm

    Yeah the article is right…..and informable to the newbies…………I applied hrice but rejected……….Because my blog was about 3 months old……..!!:)

    Reply
  9. ravi says

    December 16, 2011 at 8:11 pm

    some applications are approved within hours or 1-2 day!!

    Reply
  10. renukashah says

    December 16, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    its not required to have any specific time… i just got my blog approved within 15 days. It was brand new… but yaa its of no use if you dont have traffic.

    Reply
  11. prakhar says

    December 17, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    Sir my adsense account has been disabled by Google…can i apply for it again with the same email address??? kindly help me….

    Reply
  12. softechnogeek says

    December 17, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    i know it already that’s why i am waiting for my blog ……….

    Reply
  13. Ashesh says

    December 18, 2011 at 3:32 am

    In my view there are no any rule to have certain time, The only thing is you should’t do any fraud thing, like clicking your own ads, tell other to do so, copying others content, doing restricted things and so on. My suggestion is go through the adsense policy.

    Reply
  14. dotcompals says

    December 18, 2011 at 11:43 am

    If you are confident about your website and if it is a legit one, go and apply on the first day itself. Good is clear cut on its policies and if your website is worth, you will get approved.

    Reply
  15. SatishKumar says

    December 18, 2011 at 12:34 pm

    It is the quality of contents that matters and if a person has many quality self written unique articles in his website [remember – those should be much helpful to the target audience], he is sure to get his Adsense approved within 6 months. As observed in this article, it depends upon the reviewer at Google to do the same.

    I have few friends who have got Adsense approval within few hours of application because of their quality content in the blog / website.

    Reply
  16. Arun says

    December 19, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Adsense is pretty strict nowdays, a site must have atleast 6 months online and be having good content.

    Reply
  17. Vilas says

    December 19, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    Sure waiting 6 months to 1 year is best option for new website or blogger. In this time bloggers should concentrate to develop valuable content.

    Reply
  18. Hilywatson says

    December 20, 2011 at 2:21 pm

    That true, I am completely agree with you in this as if we want real and lifetime success in google adsense than we have to keep patience and first make our site valuable, useful and informative as per our niche.

    The more natural, simple, highly informative, easy to nevigate etc. are charcteristic of good and genuine site and once we reached at this level then there is no chace of rejection.

    Reply
  19. Anshul Singh says

    December 21, 2011 at 11:02 am

    Hiii i have some question about the adsense please help me on this question any body

    i was using adsense but the question is google disabled my adsense account , why google again and again disable my account , i have a good alexa rank .
    google send me a email on disable, the message is this

    While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense
    account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since
    keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage
    our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.

    Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the
    interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We
    realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in
    advance for your understanding and cooperation.

    If you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve
    taken, please do not reply to this email. You can find more information
    by visiting
    https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153&hl=en_US.

    what isthe means of this message any body help me on this question pleaseeeeeee.

    Reply
  20. Ashwin says

    December 23, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    Amit,

    It’s always been about quality content. Anybody who thought they could slap a few pages of content on a website and think they can make money is going to get disappointed.

    What you said makes perfect sense. It’s best until your blog gets enough high-quality content, gets traffic on a regular basis, gets some in bound links and starts to pull in a little bit of a following.

    But then, you know what?

    When a blog gets to this stage, suddenly Adsense doesn’t make any more sense unless it’s a niche we don’t care about or unless an internet marketer decides that adsense is the way to go.

    By the time a blog gets here, it makes more sense to do email marketing. Build a list and do emails instead of working all for a year, attracting 1000s of visits per month/day and then letting visitors click on a few ad sense links and get away is stupidity.

    Once you build a list of followers, all you need to do is to send emails at a set frequency. They will be customers for life. You can sell your products ( or affiliate products) again and again which will surpass income from ad sense any day.

    Reply
  21. AkashArora says

    December 24, 2011 at 9:58 pm

    I am new blogger. Many of my friends told me that time is not a matter if you are getting good number of visitors on your blog.

    Reply
  22. geetha says

    December 24, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    I agree with one of your words.new sites need minimum 6months to reach a better ranking,visitors and articles.
    One more thing i want to say is those sites which are trying to approve needs these things too.valid sitemap,no underconstruction pages,their terms and privacy policy

    Reply
  23. Damanjit Singh says

    December 27, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    Thanks for this informative post. You’re right we need to wait for 6 months before applying for adsense account.

    Reply
  24. syed says

    December 31, 2011 at 12:45 am

    No need to wait for 6 months to get adsense a/c,i got it in 1 month.You need to write quality(original) content and blog must be well structured.At least write 50 articals,before applying for google adsense account.

    Reply
  25. nidhi says

    January 5, 2012 at 8:18 pm

    yes it’s needs decent traffic and 6months old.

    Reply
  26. Ratnakar says

    January 7, 2012 at 10:52 am

    But, I have heard that many times 3 months old sites are also approved by Google Adsense. Is this Correct ?

    Reply
  27. Arpit Jakasaniya says

    January 12, 2012 at 11:08 am

    hi
    I am new blogger……….
    i can start new website hosting in kthost.com……..
    my other friend hosting there site in bluehost………..
    so my friend SEO in good then me…………..
    in my website about 450 post then visitor 700/per days
    and my friend website about 370 post then visitor 2000/per days
    can seo depend on hosting server?

    Reply
  28. sourabh says

    January 17, 2012 at 3:44 pm

    I am a new blogger…..I have applied for adsense three times but it got rejected…..what should I do…plz help

    Reply
  29. Softmace says

    January 20, 2012 at 4:43 am

    I think the most important factor is the number of visitors not the age of your blog.

    Reply
  30. Say No To Hollywood says

    January 21, 2012 at 9:38 am

    Thanks for the info….i have applied for adsense acc. and approved and google placed add in my site for one month and sudden they disable my adsense account…
    now m confused n dont know what to do..?
    can you help me?
    my site is approx 2 month old..

    Reply
  31. Umar Farooque says

    January 23, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    Hello Amit Sir, You might find me new to your website. I have also created my online blog for providing online information and tutorials for technology based on websites, SEO and webmaster tools, tips and techniques. However, I still haven’t applied for my website in google adsense, and I have approximately (may be more or less) 27 posts. Any opinion for my website would be great.

    Thanks.

    Reply
  32. Debajyoti Banerjee says

    January 24, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    Nice post Amit. For Adsense approval, new blogger/site owners must wait 6-8 months before applying for adsense and in that time they should fully concentrate building the site, keeping excellent user experience in mind. Quality of content is very important. Read Google’s webmaster guidelines. Well researched, informative, fresh and unique article is a must. Side by side comes all the hard work of promoting the site (Don’t over-optimize or push too hard). Be pro-active and help your community. After certain time ask yourself” Am I providing values to my users? to my site?” If you yourself feel confident, then only apply. Google is now very strict giving new approval for adsense and only excellent quality sites get quick approval. If you are greedy for some quick earning without thinking about your user, you are gone. All the best for all my newbie friends.

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  33. Rakesh Kumar says

    January 29, 2012 at 9:06 pm

    Hi Amit,I have a Question for u..Have u ever been banned by Google Adsense after getting approved by Adsense?

    Reply
  34. ravish says

    January 29, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    hi my name is ravish i am working on my blog which is on song video and lyrics. And before applying for adsence i put a question of forum that my site is on lyrics can i apply for adsence and they replies that its not legal becoz lyrics are subject to copy right….. but i have seen a lot of sites, and blog doing so….my question is same i i do so … please help me out to get out of this problem.

    Reply
  35. Amit says

    January 31, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    Nice article. I will also wait for atleast 6 months for my new tech blog..

    Reply
  36. sahil says

    February 1, 2012 at 8:47 am

    nice information Mr AMIT, i have Made post for you at http://www.allroundnews.com , my first post for you

    Reply
  37. chirag patel says

    February 1, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    Don’t know how but got approved adsense on my blog after 3 days of purchase of domain.I have just import the database of my old blog and applied for adsense,and approved my adsense in 1 day :D,Still its working fine !!

    Reply
  38. Natasha Faria says

    February 2, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    i got my adsense approved within one month

    Reply
  39. himanshu Dureja says

    February 5, 2012 at 7:17 pm

    it took me 4 months to get approved. applied after writing 28 posts.

    Reply
  40. funny_accounting says

    February 7, 2012 at 1:33 am

    well this will help me for my adsense application

    Reply
  41. shivam shrotriya says

    February 9, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    but google approved my website for adsense with in 20days

    Reply
  42. nem chand says

    February 11, 2012 at 11:13 am

    Thanks for the info…

    Reply
  43. nem chand says

    February 11, 2012 at 11:39 am

    Thanks for the information this is realy a good artical for me…

    Reply
  44. Sagar kapoor says

    February 11, 2012 at 5:08 pm

    nice article, actly we are planning to step in ad sense business. Quite helpful for us

    Reply
  45. venkat says

    February 11, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    I got it on the next day after buying the domain

    Reply
  46. Himanshu Khanna says

    February 11, 2012 at 8:19 pm

    My google adsense account got deactivated/disabled. Can i apply again with a new website?

    Reply
  47. Amrish Singh says

    February 24, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    I know only one thing that If You have a good blog having some useful and unique content then you can easily get an approved adsense account because I got my adsense account withing 10 day of domain registration .

    Reply
  48. WebHosts says

    February 25, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    Yaa, new blogger should wait for some months before applying for adsense, they should concentrate on updating daily and seo, and when it started getting traffic, Apply it.

    Nice article amit.
    It will help new blogger a most

    Reply
  49. pRaveen says

    March 9, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    Good work…. i wud like to wait for atleast 4 0r 6 months.. thnx..

    Reply
  50. Tanya Sachdev says

    March 11, 2012 at 12:30 am

    My site is now 6 months old..i m still waiting to apply as I want a decent traffic on a per day average so that i can make money via adsense once i get it…i dont think there is a point in having an ad sense account without adequate traffic. i am also working on my PR side by side so that once i get the ad sense, I start making money from day 1.

    Reply
  51. pankaj kumar says

    June 10, 2012 at 3:43 am

    As you said “Google is not very clear on whether existing AdSense accounts can be used on new sites.”, i think you need to update this post, if you go to the control panel of your adsense account it is clearly mentioned that the ads code can be placed on any site, you just need to authenticate that website in your adsense aacount otherwise that won’t be monetized. and ya it’s true it can be dengerous if your site doesn’t meet their policy, you can lost your adsense account.

    Reply
  52. jitendra dhaka says

    June 17, 2012 at 9:44 pm

    its a nice n knowledge based blog ,first time i found these tipe tricks ,thank u amit sir

    Reply
  53. Kang White says

    July 2, 2012 at 11:01 am

    I have blog that hosted by blogger.com
    can i still applying an application for Google Adsense?

    Formerly, i have 2 account but it has been banned by Google.
    Is that takes matter for me if I want to apply Adsense with the same name?

    Reply
  54. hitesh says

    July 9, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    my application had been rejected 8 times then i written some best articles and i am waiting adsense approval till now

    Reply
  55. Sarvesh says

    July 16, 2012 at 2:37 pm

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    http://www.itswindows.com for latest windows 8 news and upadtes

    Reply
  56. Harish says

    August 12, 2012 at 10:15 am

    Domain age does not matter when you are having a lot of traffic to your Blog.I think when you start to get 2000 daily views , its the time to go for Adsense .

    Reply
  57. Yogesh says

    August 20, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    Definitely it depends on age of blog but if you are getting good traffic then it may get approved in 3 months also.

    Reply
  58. Hossain says

    September 8, 2012 at 12:02 am

    If my account is disabled once, can I resubmit application again???

    Reply
  59. mahesh says

    September 12, 2012 at 12:11 am

    Can we have adsense account for company (official) website. Will google approve it.
    I heard that it’s better not to have any ads on official site, as it spoils the image of the business.

    Reply
  60. SEO GUIDE says

    September 14, 2012 at 1:18 pm

    Thanx for sdharing this usefull and important Information, i am about to apply for ADSENSE……

    Reply
  61. pawan mittal says

    September 25, 2012 at 6:11 pm

    yes, amit his right its upto quality of content and quantity of content, everything is secondary.

    Reply
  62. priyanka says

    September 27, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    Im having a blog and more than 200 posts in my website but adsense team rejected my request any suggest me what to do

    Reply
  63. venkatesh says

    October 16, 2012 at 1:38 am

    what if a site gets very good traffic & still get rejected by Adsense saying duplicate content?

    Reply
  64. Sarvesh says

    October 21, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    Nice Info. I will wait for 6 months before applying so that I don’t get disabled.

    Reply
  65. Abbhas says

    November 8, 2012 at 9:14 pm

    i newly started the blog how to get the adsense approved and recently i heard a conversation on FB stating Google Adsense has recently kept a restriction how can i overcome them

    Reply
  66. Prashant Chudasama says

    December 27, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Nice Post for waiting of applying adsense in blog or website………..

    Reply
  67. Sangram says

    December 27, 2012 at 10:27 pm

    I completely agree , Google is smart and there is a point in it , If you don’t have good web traffic it’s not gonna benefit the advertiser as well

    Reply
  68. piyush arora says

    December 31, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    Sir the content is great and really helpful
    I had one question can you tell me which pkugin u have used for social sharing on extreme right side of your website
    Waiting for your reply

    Reply
  69. Karthikh Venkat says

    February 16, 2013 at 5:14 pm

    Great Article 🙂 Nice one.

    Reply
  70. Jonny Lis says

    April 23, 2013 at 8:12 am

    I agree, John. Although Google Adsense doesn’t enforce a specific period or tenure for blogs and websites, it is best if you wait, at the very least, 6 months or until you’ve posted a highly relevant article in your site.

    Reply
  71. Pankaj kumar says

    June 29, 2013 at 4:05 pm

    Is any other option except google adsense?

    Reply
  72. Naim says

    July 2, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    Hello Amit,

    I am already having an Ad-sense account which was opened via YouTube and I have already earned 130$ from it till today. Now If I use same account for my blog which is 3 months old, shall that help. Or My Ad-sense account is at risk…!

    Reply
  73. Rohit Singh says

    July 14, 2013 at 3:47 pm

    Sir can we change the Payee name in our Google Adsense account?? Please reply asap 🙁

    Reply
    • Amit Bhawani says

      July 16, 2013 at 5:33 pm

      Yes you can if you have contacts at Adsense Team.

      Reply
  74. parveen says

    July 15, 2013 at 12:00 pm

    nice post ,thanx a lot for this wonderful help.

    Reply
  75. oneRinas says

    October 28, 2013 at 4:01 pm

    nope! you need to update your post!…because, these days, google added 6months+ in their policies

    Reply
  76. Apurva Tamhane says

    December 14, 2013 at 9:16 am

    Dear Amit

    I request you to make some changes as Google has given a universal policy about age requirement for Google Account. Please check this link and may be you may make a change in your article mentioning about age requirement for Google AdSense account in India. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1350409?hl=en

    Reply
  77. moula says

    March 15, 2015 at 7:30 am

    thankyou very much very useful information.

    Reply
  78. Pawan says

    September 9, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    Hi there
    Before applying for AdSense I read many post of good blogger….they always suggested to apply it once your site become some old
    But totally I m against it ,keep quality content and you don’t have to wait for this long I registered my domain on 26 August 2015 and got AdSense approved on 8 September 2015 ..it is only 12 days.
    You can check on my website http://www.bloggingvirus.com

    Reply
  79. Sandeep Negi says

    September 25, 2015 at 8:44 am

    Dear Amit ji,
    I have a Hindi blog on motivation and inspirational “achhiprerna.com”.
    Please guide me can I also earn from Hindi blog and what is Hindi Blogger’s future.

    Reply

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