It's been a while - a little more than 4 years since I was approved for my Adsense ID, but I remember the frustration over not knowing what to do or how to do it. I was so fed up with the lack of information on how to get approved for Adsense (internet marketers were too busy selling their "how to make a bagillion dollars with Adsense" info-products to bother with such a minor detail), that I set out to figure it out for myself. So I set up a little experiment on Blogger, figured out the process and received my Adsense publisher ID 6 days after setting up my Blogger experiment.
This lens reveals EXACTLY what you need to do to in 5 simple to follow steps. I'm going to lay out the 5 steps and add in some additional tips that will prove to be helpful to you.
And even though things have changed a bit since I was approved for Adsense 4 years ago, I don't see any reason why you can't get your Adsense publisher ID following the same steps.
Clueless About Getting Approved for Adsense? Read this Lens
I was approved for my Google Adsense publisher ID on 4/7/07. It'a true! It took me just 6 days total time to get approved. That's 6 days from 4/1/07 the day I began the project, until 4/7/07 the day I received my welcome email message from Google Adsense. All I did was to follow the same exact 5 steps I'm revealing here on this lens page.
NOTE: As I mentioned in the introduction a few things have changed since April 2007. Google has become a wee bit more "sensitive" about certain niche topics and there have been a number of search engine algorithim changes, the biggest of which have been the Google Panda updates, that have had a major impact on content quality. These changes affect (1) your choice of viable blog topics, and (2) the content you will use for this project - specifically, the quality, the length and the number of blog posts.
But in spite of the things that have changed since I first put this guide together, I believe you can still get approved for Google Adsense by following the 5 steps I present here on this lens. But before I reveal the 5 steps, in the next text module I'm going to give you what I believe is THE key to me getting my Adsense account.
THE Keys to Getting Approved for My Google Adsense Publisher ID
You MUST Get These 2 Things Right If You Want to Succeed
I believe The Keys to me getting approved for my Adsense publisher ID on the very first attempt were: (1) choosing a niche topic that had commercial value, and (2) creating unique, high quality content that was relevant to my niche.
What does "commercial value" mean?
Here's what I mean: the niche topic or related search terms are attractive enough for advertisers with a product or service to sell, to run pay-per-click (PPC) ad campaigns on Google's Adwords program. When doing research on potential niche topics, you MUST make sure there are a number of PPC campaigns running (in the search engine results) for the search terms. If you don't see any PPC ads or you only see 3 or less, take a pass on it and choose another topic with a higher commercial value to focus on.
The Best Research Tools You Need For This Project Are Free
3 Powerful Google Research Tools You Can Use to Uncover High Commercial Value Niche Topics
Tools. When it comes to tools to help you research potential niche markets to target, there is an overabundance of them. So many that you need a tool or at least a "how to" guide to help you pick the right ones for your online projects! But for the purpose of finding niches that have high commercial value, Google provides 3 excellent tools you can use . They are easy to work with, provide you with info based on Google's own data and best of all they're FREE!
The 3 Google tools you can use to discover worthwhile niche topics for this project are: 1.Google Insights for Search, 2.Google Trends, and 3.Google External Keyword tool.
These are my favorite free niche research tools. With them you can quickly take some seed ideas, get the trends for those ideas, see what geographic areas have the most interest in these ideas, get keyword search terms from those seed ideas and create keyword lists for this project. In the next 3 modules I'm going to give you 3 YouTube video tutorials to help you get the most out of using these 3 tools.
Setting Up Blogger Is Easier Than 1-2-3
The set up for Blogger is very simple. And back in 2007 when I was approved for Adsense, it was cool to include info on how to set up Blogger in this lens, but today it takes a third row seat to what really matters in getting approved for Google Adsense: choosing a niche topic with good commercial value, and writing unique, high quality content that's helpful to someone searching for information on your niche topic.
So I've removed the modules that went through Step 1: Setting up your account, Step 2: Naming your Blogger blog & choosing a URL, and Step 3: Making your Blogspot look like a real website. You really don't need a module-by-module walk through, because Google has made Blogger even easier to work with. Just watch the YouTube video tutorial in the next module.
Step 4: How to Create Content For Your Blogger Blog
One HUGE Tip For Creating Content That Google Will Love
This 4th step is a HUGE one because without content, you're not going to get approved for Google Adsense. So to help you, here's a big tip on how to create the blog content for your Blogger blog:
Create High Quality Content That's Relevant and Helpful!
When Google rolled out the 'Panda' update (a/k/a the 'Farmer' update) to it's search engine algorithm in February of 2011, Google wanted to improve user experience by weeding out thin low quality blogs and websites from their search engine rankings. The initial and subsequent monthly updates have made it clear that Big G is placing a lot of value on (a) content quality, (b) the relevance of content to a search inquiry, (c) how helpful content is likely to be to a site page visitor, and (d) content freshness.
I'm changing what I'm recommending you do with respect to (1) the number of posts you create, and (2) the length of those blog posts. So you want to write informative, relevant blog posts that are well written, have no misspellings or errors in grammar. Number of posts: I would NOT apply for my Adsense publisher ID with just 3 - 4 blog posts now; I would spread it out to at least 7 blog posts (the number of posts really depends on your topic and length of your posts). Length: At the low end, 500 -600 words and at the high end, more than 1,000 words in length. Don't flip out over post length ... focus on giving Google the high quality content it wants.
This is completely different than what I did to get approved for the Adsense program in 2007, but it is a prime example of how quickly things can change up in the internet marketing world. You're still going to post content to your blog every other day. For example, if you make your initial posts on Monday, you'll make your next group of posts on Wednesday and your final post on Friday.
What did I do?: I created 2 detailed 650 word posts on my subject that were very informative. I spaced the posts 2 days apart, added a detailed topic related "About" page and added an RSS feed covering news about my topic. The day after I made the 2nd post, a Saturday, I applied for my Adsense publisher ID. I was approved the same day.
In case you're wondering about the topic I chose, I chose a medical condition. There was commercial intent and there was a decent amount of Adwords ads running for the search terms that I wanted to focus on, so I ran with it.
4 steps down, 1 more step to go to get approved for your Adsense publisher ID.
Tools To Use When You're Struggling To Create Content For Your Blog
Tools To Help You Research and Create Content
What do you do when you feel like you can't write to save your life or you can write, but it's a real struggle for you to write the blog posts you need for this project?
Use Private Label Rights (PLR) .... Very VERY Carefully
Almost everyone has some PLR (private label rights) articles on their PC. Don't let your PLR content continue to gather digital dust on your hard drive; if it's not junk, think about putting it to use for this project. BUT ... you really have to be very smart about how you use it on your Blogger blog (or any other platform). Any PLR articles or blog posts you use MUST be high quality rewrites of the original ... it cannot be used "as is" .
Back in the day -- before the 'Panda' algo update, many internet marketing experts said it was okay to do a light rewrite that was 35 - 55% unique. But today doing that level of PLR rewrite would be a complete waste of your time and will get you nowhere fast! Personally, I do rewrites that are at least 85 - 90% unique on all PLR articles that I use and that's what you need to aim for with your rewrites. Sometimes I use the PLR article to model an entirely new article after. Yes, it's a lot more work, but this is what you're going to have to do to create the high quality content you're going to need for your blog.
A word (or two) about rewrites.....
Don't be lazy and just do synonym replacements with your favorite article spinning tool. You need to edit and rewrite the content in your own words, using your voice. Also add relevant images, YouTube videos your blog posts to add value to your PLR content. And where possible, links to relevant related content on other sites. Run your rewritten articles through CopyScape or another online tool to compare your rewrite against the original article.
If you REALLY have trouble writing .....
If you have trouble writing, I suggest you (1) buy an inexpensive private label rights article pack from PLR MiniMart, PLR a La Carte or NetPLR . I've purchased some excellent PLR content from all 3, so I highly recommend them. These sources offer high quality PLR that is well researched and well written (which will make it much easier for you to rewrite), and (2) subscribe to a free service like iCurrent and Google Alerts to get updates on the topic of the PLR pack you purchased. This is a super easy way to help you rewrite content, but also become more knowledgeable about your niche topic and never run out of ideas for writing new content.
Don't forget About.com, GistWeb, SmartRewrite or SpinnerChief
GistWeb is a free tool that can give you the summary or "gist" of a web page's content. You can also use it with web search summaries. It's very easy to use and it can help you with creating content for your Blogger blog. But don't get lazy and use the Gist summary as is! Rewrite it using SmartRewrite, which is a free online tool or SpinnerChief, a freebie desk top article spinner. Run your content through a tool like the Advanced Plagiarism Checker (yes, it's a free online tool).
Step 5: Apply for Your Adsense Publisher ID!
Step 5 - apply for your Adsense publisher ID
You can apply for Adsense through Blogger.com from your blogspot's Template tab under Page Elements sub heading or you can submit your application thru the main sign up page for Adsense . Click the sign up now button and follow the instructions.
Tip: When you sign up for Adsense, use an existing e-mail address other than the one you created your Google account with.
That's it - if you followed the instructions in this lens you will be approved for Google Adsense in 2 - 3 days.
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