Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Google Deems Me Unacceptable

Anyone who has a blog on Blogger.com, as I do, has the opprotunity to enroll in Google's AdSense program. Google looks at your site and if you qualify you add a bit of code that allows Google to place advertisements on your blog. If people actually click on the things you can actually generate a little income. So I thought, why not!? Well, the word has come down from on high and it seems I have "Unacceptable Site Content." So I checked their link to see what content they call "Unacceptable." They say:

Site may not include:

Excessive profanity

Hate, violence, racial intolerance, or advocate against any individual, group, or organization

Hacking/cracking content

Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia

Pornography, adult, or mature content

Gambling or casino-related content

Any other content that promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others

Excessive advertising

Pop-ups, pop-unders or exit windows that interfere with site navigation, obscure Google ads, change user preferences, or are for downloads. Other types of pop-ups, pop-unders, or exit windows may be allowed, provided that they do not exceed a combined total of 5 per user session

Excessive, repetitive, or irrelevant keywords in the content or code of web pages

Deceptive or manipulative content or construction to improve your site's search engine ranking, e.g., your site's PageRank

Gee, and here I was holding off turning this page into a neo-nazi hardcore strip poker site.

Google has every right not to include this blog in their program, but lets be up front about what they don't like about it because it isn't in the list above.

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