I applied for adsense from my first blogspot blog. It was my first try at blogging and maybe wasn't the best blog to apply for adsense with since it didn't have much content and wasn't a topic big enough to add more content. After I applied for adsense from that blogspot blog I was stuck with applying for only that specific blog. Whenever I created a new blog with that same blogger account and tried to apply for adsense with that new blog, the submission form automatically filled in the URL field with my original blog and wouldn't allow me to change it.
After searching the internet for a solution I found this tactic. You must create a new google email and google account. When you apply for a new blogspot blog a screen will come up with two blue buttons at the bottom that ask if you'd like to apply with the existing google account or with another google account. Choose to apply with another google account and then log in with the new google account information that you've just created. Using this new account will allow you to change the URL field to which ever blog you'd like to apply for. You have to do this same process each time you wish to submit a new blog. This is only if you get rejected from Adsense application process and wish to scrap that blog and start and reapply with a new blog. If you are approved for any blog, then you no longer need to reapply, you are already accepted and will be able to automatically place adsense ads on those new blogs without approval.
As I've said with some of the other methods I've written about on this blog, some of them either don't work, or they don't work just as you'd expect them to. This method accomplishes exactly what it's supposed to. That end goal is not for adsense approval, but rather to be able to apply for a different blog from the same blogger account.
It's kind of a pain to have to make another google account just to apply for another blog on the same account, but it's what you have to do. But don't worry, it will work and it isn't just another waste of time that will leave you without results. If this is what you are trying to do, then this method is for you. Give it a try!
Hope this post helped some people. Thanks for reading!
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Use Adsense To Quit My Job
I very much wish to get adsense ads onto my blogspot blog. That is my short term goal. In order to do that, to accomplish that goal, I need to get one of my blogger blogs approved for adsense. So in a sense that is what I'm trying to do right now. They say you need large goals to keep you focused towards something, and you also need smaller, actionable goals that you can reasonably achieve in the near future so that you don't get overwhelmed and quit because you think you'll never get there. So my short term goal is to get adsense ads to show up on my blogspot blogs.
My long term, overall goal however is to earn enough money through adsense to be able to quit my job. I don't make a lot at my current job, just slightly more than what my bills are, so I don't get very far ahead each month. I don't have much money to save after paying bills. It is hard to earn more with a normal job because you get paid for each hour that you work, and once that hour is gone you have finished earning from it and you can never get any more benefit from it. With adsense publishing I can spend that hour writing a post that will get traffic and potential clicks and revenue for forever. I put my heart and soul into a post with one amount of time, and it theoretically has unlimited earning potential. That is an awesome way to make money! I have the topics inside me, I have the expertise and knowledge. I have the platform (blogger/blogspot) to get my ideas out there. Now I just need the adsense to provide the income I desire.
Most of my posts, by far, are about how to get approved for adsense, but this post is all about my hopes and dreams for what will happen once I am adsense approved. I will quit my job when I make a steady average of $100 per day, which comes out to about $3000 per month, which is a little more than I make at my current job. Until I quit my job I will only be able to write for my blogs with my free time from about 6 pm until 11 pm or later depending on how I feel each night. I'll also be able to use weekends. Once I quit my job though I'll be able to write for my blogs full time, creating new pieces of content, each of which will continue to bring me income for life. It will grow exponentially! I will be able to spend the time I use at work each day (8 am-5 pm) towards my true passion, which is blogging.
I love blogging so much because I get to talk about whatever I want all day, and I don't have to do it face to face, which means that I can reach far more people than I personally could in real life. I also love that it gives me the opportunity to learn so much each day, because in order to provide useful, high quality content, I will always have to do research on various topics. In a typical job you learn your task and get pretty good at it, and then you basically stop growing, you just plateau. There would be little added benefit to learning for a typical job, you wouldn't necessarily be earning any more just because you learned more. With blogging I would be earning more for learning more, because for everything I learn I can write additional articles and posts and help reach more people. Not just the people I reach through the search engine results pages, but also from people who find my blogs by chance and then return over and over, to become regular readers, just because I have great information to share!
I also love that to blog you don't actually have to be an expert. If you were to write a book about a topic, you'd have to be quite the known expert in order to be published. With blogging you only need to know more than your audience, and being there are BILLIONS of people on this planet, and millions of people using the internet, chances are pretty good that on any given topic I choose to tackle, I'll know more than SOMEBODY out there. That's not to say I'm trying to give information that is lacking or useless posts that are no good, but even with information that isn't the best in the world you can still help people find what they are looking for. I may provide a particular piece of information that someone out there is looking for specifically and I phrased it in a way that isn't super common and because I took the time to put the information out there in my own words, that person gets access to the information they were looking for. Blogging helps the blogger financially, and it also helps the world!
Blogging is also a great way for me to track my own progress in my education on the different topics I endeavor. Each time I learn something and share it through my blogs, I am saving that reminder for myself forever. I can always return to my posts to see all the things I've experienced or learned. That is amazing!
I am excited to blog because I'll be helping people, who just a short while ago could have been me searching for the exact same information, and also because I am helping myself to earn a greater income and live a more relaxed lifestyle and constantly growing in my self run education.
I don't know if my excitement and enthusiasm truly comes through in this text, but if I can get my adsense account approved and I can make an honest income helping, really helping people I would consider myself a winner and a success. Even if I had gone to college to become a professional anything and I was able to serve people with my skills, I wouldn't consider myself as successful as if I get this blogging thing to work out. Early in my life I decided that I'd like to go to school for the rest of my life, never get a job, and just always be learning. This blogging career is that opportunity, that for a long time I didn't think existed and wasn't realistic.
So this post will serve as a reminder to myself of my dedication to this blogging project, and it will hopeful be a motivator for you, the reader, who can do as I've done and hopefully attain the results you desire. The income potential is great. Many people not only make a full time income from blogging, but many become millionaires. It isn't to insane to think you could make a ton of money from blogging when you keep in mind that you can get paid from work you've done in the past in addition to the work you do every day.
Please follow my journey to adsense success by reading this blog and returning for updates as I give them out. And don't forget that this blog can be a great resource for someone with similar goals to mine. Thanks so much for reading!
My long term, overall goal however is to earn enough money through adsense to be able to quit my job. I don't make a lot at my current job, just slightly more than what my bills are, so I don't get very far ahead each month. I don't have much money to save after paying bills. It is hard to earn more with a normal job because you get paid for each hour that you work, and once that hour is gone you have finished earning from it and you can never get any more benefit from it. With adsense publishing I can spend that hour writing a post that will get traffic and potential clicks and revenue for forever. I put my heart and soul into a post with one amount of time, and it theoretically has unlimited earning potential. That is an awesome way to make money! I have the topics inside me, I have the expertise and knowledge. I have the platform (blogger/blogspot) to get my ideas out there. Now I just need the adsense to provide the income I desire.
Most of my posts, by far, are about how to get approved for adsense, but this post is all about my hopes and dreams for what will happen once I am adsense approved. I will quit my job when I make a steady average of $100 per day, which comes out to about $3000 per month, which is a little more than I make at my current job. Until I quit my job I will only be able to write for my blogs with my free time from about 6 pm until 11 pm or later depending on how I feel each night. I'll also be able to use weekends. Once I quit my job though I'll be able to write for my blogs full time, creating new pieces of content, each of which will continue to bring me income for life. It will grow exponentially! I will be able to spend the time I use at work each day (8 am-5 pm) towards my true passion, which is blogging.
I love blogging so much because I get to talk about whatever I want all day, and I don't have to do it face to face, which means that I can reach far more people than I personally could in real life. I also love that it gives me the opportunity to learn so much each day, because in order to provide useful, high quality content, I will always have to do research on various topics. In a typical job you learn your task and get pretty good at it, and then you basically stop growing, you just plateau. There would be little added benefit to learning for a typical job, you wouldn't necessarily be earning any more just because you learned more. With blogging I would be earning more for learning more, because for everything I learn I can write additional articles and posts and help reach more people. Not just the people I reach through the search engine results pages, but also from people who find my blogs by chance and then return over and over, to become regular readers, just because I have great information to share!
I also love that to blog you don't actually have to be an expert. If you were to write a book about a topic, you'd have to be quite the known expert in order to be published. With blogging you only need to know more than your audience, and being there are BILLIONS of people on this planet, and millions of people using the internet, chances are pretty good that on any given topic I choose to tackle, I'll know more than SOMEBODY out there. That's not to say I'm trying to give information that is lacking or useless posts that are no good, but even with information that isn't the best in the world you can still help people find what they are looking for. I may provide a particular piece of information that someone out there is looking for specifically and I phrased it in a way that isn't super common and because I took the time to put the information out there in my own words, that person gets access to the information they were looking for. Blogging helps the blogger financially, and it also helps the world!
Blogging is also a great way for me to track my own progress in my education on the different topics I endeavor. Each time I learn something and share it through my blogs, I am saving that reminder for myself forever. I can always return to my posts to see all the things I've experienced or learned. That is amazing!
I am excited to blog because I'll be helping people, who just a short while ago could have been me searching for the exact same information, and also because I am helping myself to earn a greater income and live a more relaxed lifestyle and constantly growing in my self run education.
I don't know if my excitement and enthusiasm truly comes through in this text, but if I can get my adsense account approved and I can make an honest income helping, really helping people I would consider myself a winner and a success. Even if I had gone to college to become a professional anything and I was able to serve people with my skills, I wouldn't consider myself as successful as if I get this blogging thing to work out. Early in my life I decided that I'd like to go to school for the rest of my life, never get a job, and just always be learning. This blogging career is that opportunity, that for a long time I didn't think existed and wasn't realistic.
So this post will serve as a reminder to myself of my dedication to this blogging project, and it will hopeful be a motivator for you, the reader, who can do as I've done and hopefully attain the results you desire. The income potential is great. Many people not only make a full time income from blogging, but many become millionaires. It isn't to insane to think you could make a ton of money from blogging when you keep in mind that you can get paid from work you've done in the past in addition to the work you do every day.
Please follow my journey to adsense success by reading this blog and returning for updates as I give them out. And don't forget that this blog can be a great resource for someone with similar goals to mine. Thanks so much for reading!
Getting Your Adsense Account Approved Through Youtube
During my many hours searching Google and Youtube for a solution to my problem I've come across this solution. My problem was that no matter what I try I cannot get my blogger/blogspot blog accepted into Adsense. I start a blog about an interesting, useful topic that I have expert knowledge in and I write long, in-depth articles about my topic and whenever I apply for Adsense through the Blogger earnings tab I get an email from Google that says that they could not accept my blog at that time due to "Insufficient Content".
When I read up online in websites and web forums on the subject I read that insufficient content can mean lots of things. Insufficient content is their catch-all way of saying "Somethings just not right". They don't have to tell you what is wrong with your site, they can just say insufficient content and be done with you.
It could mean that you are using duplicate content or copy and paste content from other websites. It could mean that you have copyrighted images on your site that you cannot legally have there. It could mean that your blogs topic is too popular a topic at the time and that they have too many of that blog for them to accept more (examples I've read about were fashion and food blogs). I've read that it can mean you don't have enough text per page, but nobody anywhere can tell you a minimum number of words to have on a page. It could mean that your site navigation is poor and the bot that crawls your blog can't find your content. I've heard that it may have something to do with your blogs age or the amount of traffic that it receives.
Nobody has any proof for any of these speculations which makes it so frustrating because if you follow a strangers advice and it takes you 30+ hours to implement, and then your blog still doesn't get accepted into Adsense, then it was all just a wild goose chase waste of time. I have followed down this empty rabbit hole and have had no success. It doesn't seem that writing more unique, quality content helps anything. Nor does building links and getting more traffic. It must be something else all together.
Anyways, this post was to be about the method of getting your adsense account approved using Youtube. So you need to create a new Google account, not the one you use to make your blogger blog. With your new account set up a youtube channel and upload a video to it. I've read elsewhere that you need a bunch of videos and a certain number of views or hits on your videos. When I used this method I only uploaded one video and it was just a short (20 seconds) video of me saying that I had started the channel to upload useful videos to. I uploaded the video and then go to video manager or something like that and select the option to "Monetize" your videos. When you select that option to monetize you have to fill out a basic form and that's it. You've officially applied for Youtube video monetization. I was approved in about 2 hours. It was ridiculously easy and I really thought I had found quite the Adsense loophole. Then, after you've received your acceptance email from google go to the monetization tab in youtube and look through the frequently asked questions. One of the questions is "How will I be paid?". When you click on that question an answer will show up and in the answer is a link which will allow you to link your youtube channel with an Adsense account. Set it all up with your new google account. Once you've filled out all of the appropriate forms you have an official approved Adsense account. If your aim is to earn money by producing Youtube videos, then you are done!
If you are like me, then you don't wish to upload more videos. My only reason for setting up the Youtube channel was to get Adsense approved. Now you need to link your Adsense approved account with the google account you use for your blogger/blogspot blog. If you want to read about how to set up an adsense account with youtube, or how to link youtube account with your blogspot blog then follow these links and read the articles. The descriptions on those sites are more step by step with exact details. In my post I'm being more generic with the instructions because most of it is pretty self explanatory, it's just the concept of what you are doing that is original and useful.
To link your youtube account with your blogspot blog, sign into your new adsense account and under the settings page that you find in the gear symbol in the top right hand corner, find the option to invite someone. You put the email address associated with your blogspot blog in the invite field and then click invite. Now check your email for the blogspot blog email and you will have been emailed a request by google. Accept the invite and then your two accounts are linked. You can go back into your adsense account and change the privileges level of the blogspot blog account and then you've done it! The two accounts are linked and it would seem that you are able to put adsense ads on your blogspot blog.
If you go to a specific blog you've created and click on the Earnings tab and then click the orange button that applies for adsense, you will be able to log in with your adsense account email and it will allow you to see an adsense dashboard from your blogspot blog. It allows you to create ads and paste them into your blogspot layout. It really seems at this point like it's going to work. But when you've pasted the ads and then view your blog, the ads just show up as blank space. There is no ad there. From what I've read online it seems that although those accounts are linked and that your adsense account has been approved you cannot post ads to anything except youtube. Most helpers online say that you need to upgrade your adsense account to a self hosted full account. You would need to purchase a domain name and set up hosting and then apply for adsense from that blog just to eventually get ads to show up on your freehosted blogspot blog. That seems absolutely ridiculous and stupid to me. I am currently trying to build up a brand new blog with no images and huge articles on blogspot and I will attempt to apply with that blog. My hope there is that if the blogspot blog itself is accepted, then I will be able to show ads on any of my blogspot blogs.
So in summary, this method using youtube to get adsense approval works, but not in the way you'd hope it would. You can make money with ads on youtube, but you still can't get ads on your blogspot blog. I am going to continue to try to build up this one blog and hope to get it approved by Adsense for blogger blogspot, which will open the gates for me to put ads on all of my blogspot blogs. I'll let you know how it goes. Wish me luck. And thanks for reading!
When I read up online in websites and web forums on the subject I read that insufficient content can mean lots of things. Insufficient content is their catch-all way of saying "Somethings just not right". They don't have to tell you what is wrong with your site, they can just say insufficient content and be done with you.
It could mean that you are using duplicate content or copy and paste content from other websites. It could mean that you have copyrighted images on your site that you cannot legally have there. It could mean that your blogs topic is too popular a topic at the time and that they have too many of that blog for them to accept more (examples I've read about were fashion and food blogs). I've read that it can mean you don't have enough text per page, but nobody anywhere can tell you a minimum number of words to have on a page. It could mean that your site navigation is poor and the bot that crawls your blog can't find your content. I've heard that it may have something to do with your blogs age or the amount of traffic that it receives.
Nobody has any proof for any of these speculations which makes it so frustrating because if you follow a strangers advice and it takes you 30+ hours to implement, and then your blog still doesn't get accepted into Adsense, then it was all just a wild goose chase waste of time. I have followed down this empty rabbit hole and have had no success. It doesn't seem that writing more unique, quality content helps anything. Nor does building links and getting more traffic. It must be something else all together.
Anyways, this post was to be about the method of getting your adsense account approved using Youtube. So you need to create a new Google account, not the one you use to make your blogger blog. With your new account set up a youtube channel and upload a video to it. I've read elsewhere that you need a bunch of videos and a certain number of views or hits on your videos. When I used this method I only uploaded one video and it was just a short (20 seconds) video of me saying that I had started the channel to upload useful videos to. I uploaded the video and then go to video manager or something like that and select the option to "Monetize" your videos. When you select that option to monetize you have to fill out a basic form and that's it. You've officially applied for Youtube video monetization. I was approved in about 2 hours. It was ridiculously easy and I really thought I had found quite the Adsense loophole. Then, after you've received your acceptance email from google go to the monetization tab in youtube and look through the frequently asked questions. One of the questions is "How will I be paid?". When you click on that question an answer will show up and in the answer is a link which will allow you to link your youtube channel with an Adsense account. Set it all up with your new google account. Once you've filled out all of the appropriate forms you have an official approved Adsense account. If your aim is to earn money by producing Youtube videos, then you are done!
If you are like me, then you don't wish to upload more videos. My only reason for setting up the Youtube channel was to get Adsense approved. Now you need to link your Adsense approved account with the google account you use for your blogger/blogspot blog. If you want to read about how to set up an adsense account with youtube, or how to link youtube account with your blogspot blog then follow these links and read the articles. The descriptions on those sites are more step by step with exact details. In my post I'm being more generic with the instructions because most of it is pretty self explanatory, it's just the concept of what you are doing that is original and useful.
To link your youtube account with your blogspot blog, sign into your new adsense account and under the settings page that you find in the gear symbol in the top right hand corner, find the option to invite someone. You put the email address associated with your blogspot blog in the invite field and then click invite. Now check your email for the blogspot blog email and you will have been emailed a request by google. Accept the invite and then your two accounts are linked. You can go back into your adsense account and change the privileges level of the blogspot blog account and then you've done it! The two accounts are linked and it would seem that you are able to put adsense ads on your blogspot blog.
If you go to a specific blog you've created and click on the Earnings tab and then click the orange button that applies for adsense, you will be able to log in with your adsense account email and it will allow you to see an adsense dashboard from your blogspot blog. It allows you to create ads and paste them into your blogspot layout. It really seems at this point like it's going to work. But when you've pasted the ads and then view your blog, the ads just show up as blank space. There is no ad there. From what I've read online it seems that although those accounts are linked and that your adsense account has been approved you cannot post ads to anything except youtube. Most helpers online say that you need to upgrade your adsense account to a self hosted full account. You would need to purchase a domain name and set up hosting and then apply for adsense from that blog just to eventually get ads to show up on your freehosted blogspot blog. That seems absolutely ridiculous and stupid to me. I am currently trying to build up a brand new blog with no images and huge articles on blogspot and I will attempt to apply with that blog. My hope there is that if the blogspot blog itself is accepted, then I will be able to show ads on any of my blogspot blogs.
So in summary, this method using youtube to get adsense approval works, but not in the way you'd hope it would. You can make money with ads on youtube, but you still can't get ads on your blogspot blog. I am going to continue to try to build up this one blog and hope to get it approved by Adsense for blogger blogspot, which will open the gates for me to put ads on all of my blogspot blogs. I'll let you know how it goes. Wish me luck. And thanks for reading!
My Stressful Adsense Journey
This blog is intended to be helpful for anyone attempting to get approval for a Google Adsense account. I know how difficult it can be to get approved. I know how discouraging it can be when your blog is rejected. I've had several blogs rejected, each time due to "Insufficient Content", which didn't make much sense since I had many very meaty posts of over 2,000 words a piece. I also know how difficult it can be to find direction, guidance, and advice regarding Adsense. Google provides no official support for the approval process. They give you a very basic guide of how it should ideally work, and then if that doesn't work they point you to the Adsense Help Forum where people who do not work for Google advise you. It is the blind leading the blind on that forum. Google does not provide you with a phone number to call so you can ask specific questions, nor do they provide a help email address or live chat feature. There is no way to receive any help from Google. You can get help once you make $25 per month, but that doesn't help someone who is trying to get Adsense approval!
So on this blog I am going to share what I try to get an Adsense account approved, and explain what works and what doesn't, because there is a lot of hype out there and I can assure you that not all of it is accurate. I will keep you updated and I will let you know if I ever get an Adsense approval email. It is so hard to do research about how to get accepted into Adsense because the information is scattered amongst hundreds or even thousands of little websites, videos, and help forums. I want to provide a one-stop-shop kind of website where you can come if you have Adsense problems and find all the solutions on one site.
This blog will also be a place for me to vent about my frustrations with Adsense. It's important for people to have an emotional outlet so that your extreme feelings can be useful for someone else. I just can't get over how a program as large as Adsense, which is a product of a company as large as Google, has no phone support at all! It is unfathomable! Every business, every product, everywhere has some sort of phone number where you can reach a real person to ask questions. The person answering the phone is not always as helpful as you'd wish they'd be, but at least they are SOMEBODY who stands some chance of finding you an answer to your problem. Even if the person who answers the phone doesn't know the answer, they are typically able to put you in contact with someone within the organization that does know the answer. But not with Google Adsense. It's just "Give it your best try, and if you run into any problems, ask strangers in a forum".
Anyways, this is my first post in this blog and I hope you find some great value here. Read all the posts and tell your friends who are also attempting to get accepted by Adsense. I know I will enjoy writing the posts for this blog because it will feel good to help other stressed individuals find a way to monetize their blogs. And I'll also enjoy it because I'll get to complain about my struggles to do it myself! Thanks for reading!
So on this blog I am going to share what I try to get an Adsense account approved, and explain what works and what doesn't, because there is a lot of hype out there and I can assure you that not all of it is accurate. I will keep you updated and I will let you know if I ever get an Adsense approval email. It is so hard to do research about how to get accepted into Adsense because the information is scattered amongst hundreds or even thousands of little websites, videos, and help forums. I want to provide a one-stop-shop kind of website where you can come if you have Adsense problems and find all the solutions on one site.
This blog will also be a place for me to vent about my frustrations with Adsense. It's important for people to have an emotional outlet so that your extreme feelings can be useful for someone else. I just can't get over how a program as large as Adsense, which is a product of a company as large as Google, has no phone support at all! It is unfathomable! Every business, every product, everywhere has some sort of phone number where you can reach a real person to ask questions. The person answering the phone is not always as helpful as you'd wish they'd be, but at least they are SOMEBODY who stands some chance of finding you an answer to your problem. Even if the person who answers the phone doesn't know the answer, they are typically able to put you in contact with someone within the organization that does know the answer. But not with Google Adsense. It's just "Give it your best try, and if you run into any problems, ask strangers in a forum".
Anyways, this is my first post in this blog and I hope you find some great value here. Read all the posts and tell your friends who are also attempting to get accepted by Adsense. I know I will enjoy writing the posts for this blog because it will feel good to help other stressed individuals find a way to monetize their blogs. And I'll also enjoy it because I'll get to complain about my struggles to do it myself! Thanks for reading!
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