April 2004


Nothing else needs to be said!


Anyone mind if I spend a couple of mintues ranting? No? Good.

So, after spending a good 30 minutes attempting to login to my Google adsense account, I finally gave up and emailed them. Since I Gonzonia had been rejected, the account was essentially locked.

A day or two later they responded saying that I can use my current ads on another site, blah blah blah. AGAIN I explained the issue with them, that the original site submitted was rejected and I wanted to apply a different site. They understood this time and asked for the site.

Last night, ReviewDude was rejected as well. What pisses me off though is the reason,

“Unfortunately, after reviewing www.reviewdude.com, we are unable to accept it into our
AdSense program at this time for the reasons related to:

-Page type

In general, we do not accept personal or chat sites into the AdSense
program. However, if a site contains targeted, text-based content and/or
provides a product or service, we may consider it for participation.

Thank you for your understanding.”

Excuse me? Personal site? Chat site? How does a site dedicated to reviews fit into either category? True, it uses a popular blog software for content managment, but so do quite a few other sites. Does the site not look professional enough? Am I crazy?