Approved for Google AdSense! The Good and the Bad Arrive Together~ Orz

Yesterday, with nothing to do, I opened my Gmail

and this email was sitting in my inbox. I was stunned. I’d only applied the day before yesterday, and the reply came today~ Then I saw “Welcome to…” WOW!!! I made it~ After such a long time, I finally got approved~ 4 months~

Below are the rejection emails from my Google AdSense applications, for your viewing pleasure

Eight of them in total. The first batch were rejections over the type of site, and then came rejections because my site was down. Sigh~ each one more tragic than the last~ Yesterday I finally got in, and I’m over the moon~ HOHO~

The Baidu ad network approved me the week before last. Baidu approving me was only right~ heh~ But Baidu wasn’t smooth sailing either: three rejections in a row, then approved on the fourth try.

I figure the rejections had their reasons. Baidu seems to care about how many pages are indexed, and Google seems to care about the age of the domain. When I applied to Baidu, they had already indexed 200-something pages, whereas before it was only a dozen or so. Once it hit 200, Baidu approved me~ Google kept saying the site type wasn’t right. I figured the domain just hadn’t been registered long enough, so I kept waiting, and it turned out pretty much the way Little M said: Google approves you in the third month after the domain is registered. This is just my guess, probably not worth much as a reference… heh~

From now on I’ll write blog posts properly~ My plan is two updates a week~

I haven’t written much these past two months, but my blog is still holding at 50+ IPs a day. Not bad! Almost all of it comes from search engines, because my blog has a very detailed post on getting around the Great Firewall~ HOHO~

Speaking of which, that firewall post needs an update too~

Anyway, today I’m still basking in the joy of getting approved for Google AdSense~ o(∩_∩)o

I didn’t get to bed until 3 a.m. today, because manually minifying my CSS and JS made the site’s theme completely disappear. It turned into an ultra-minimal theme of plain white boxes, and no matter how I debugged it I couldn’t fix it (cause unknown, I’m still looking into it). So I had no choice but to delete all the files and the database (why did I delete the database~ I must have been out of it), and then it was uploading, debugging, tweaking the theme, adding plugins (in a few days I’ll share the plugins I use with everyone), and so on. By the time it was all sorted it was past 3, then I went to sleep. Uh~ this morning I had to drink two packets of instant coffee to stay awake~ ugh~

Truly, the good and the bad came together. But in the end it all worked out, and everything’s safe and sound~ heh

Finally, I wish everyone luck getting approved by Baidu’s and Google’s ad networks~ (and a special shout-out to my classmate Little Lu!!!)