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!
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