Your AdSense account is awaiting approval.

Sorry, I've been living with the,  "Your AdSense account is awaiting approval." in my Blogger Earnings page for quite a while now, and I thought that, hey, there is no one at Blogger or AdSense to talk to about this issue, so why not do a blog entry on it.

So, why does it take soooooo long for a very simple approval to take place?

Is it because of the desire to not allow AdSense users to host advertisements on "bad pages" (e.g., porn or hate sites, or maybe sites that host only "stolen" content)?

Or is there some other deep seated, secret evaluation process by which the guardians of good and proper at AdSense use to evaluate requests to have an AdSense account for the purpose of publishing advertisements on our websites?

Right now, the evaluation and approval process is largely black-box to outsiders like me, so all I can do is ask random questions, like, "Why are you being such a tool, AdSense?".

If there was a hint of transparency in the evaluation process that maybe showed a few of the following items, then at least I could understand where I am in the black-hole of AdSense approval:

• How many times have I submitted for AdSense approval
• What was the reason for lack of approval each time, with specifics on exactly what was wrong with the request for approval
• Bad content
• Content that offends the palate
• Stolen content
• Just a darn shitty site, too bad to host paid advertising
• How many other folks are currently in the AdSense approval queue
• How many AdSense reviewers are currently working on the AdSense approval queue
• Or, how far behind is the AdSense approval robot in it's approval processing
• How many wanna-be AdSense hosting site authors are also writing blogs about the very crappy AdSense review and evaluation process
• Where (numerically or percentage-wise) does my AdSense approval request stand in the current approval queue
• In which part of the world does the reviewer reside (just a to satisfy my morbid curiosity)

There is really no solid reason for such a lack of transparency of the AdSense approval process.  Such a black-box approach really makes me wonder why AdSense is so insecure about their process that they have to obfuscate the evaluation and approval process.

Also, it is so rude to not offer real customer support for AdSense.  There are no publicly published email or telephone support numbers for AdSense.  What?!!!  How Rude!!!

When AdSense is the gateway for enabling commerce in your Android apps, and the AdSense approval process is to obfuscated and lengthy, how is this benefiting Google?  

Maybe Google feels that they already have plenty of places to host advertisements, so they have chosen to put the AdSense evaluation and approval process in place to act as a gating factor.  I.e., "if we make it confusing and a lengthy process, then we'll be able to accurately predict our ad growth very accurately"?

Oh well, I'll probably add to this AdSense rant as the evaluation process stretches from two to three weeks, or maybe even longer.

Thanks Google/AdSense!  What ever happened to "Do No Evil"?