Wow...turned down in 10 seconds flat!

I think that the last time that I was turned down so quickly was when I was a teenager and asked the most popular girl (Charlotte) in our class out to the local drive-in.  It was awkward, and she was polite, but the answer was definitely NO.

So, I'm no stranger to rejection, but I've got to admit that the AdSense gatekeepers are giving Charlotte a very close run for her money in the race to reject this poor ol' boy from the sticks...wah, wah, wah...

From the time that I updated my blog to have a Privacy statement (at the very end of the this blog page) and resubmitted my request for an AdSense account and received a new rejection email was...wait for it...74 minutes!

The last time that I tried the approval process, the total time it took for the evaluation folks to process my request and reject it was 10 DAYS!

I've got to give it to the AdSense gatekeepers; they are getting really prompt at telling me NO.

However, here's my beef with them at this point in time.

I don't mind being told NO.  I don't like it, but I'm used to it.  After all, I've been married to a wonderful woman for over 33 years and she has told me NO almost daily about one thing or another.  You get it right? I'm used to being told NO.

However, I do believe that it's a simple sign of RESPECT for the entity that is saying NO to be specific on why they are saying NO.  What I'm feeling from AdSense/Google/Blogger at this point in time is a total lack of respect for me as a potential customer/partner of their services.

Here's a series of screen shots that show my latest round of interaction with AdSense and Blogger on this AdSense approval request:

• Here's the AdSense screen asking me to resubmit my application request:
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• Here's the AdSense screen that thanks me for my application:
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• Here's the Blogger page telling me that they are waiting for AdSense to approve me:
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• And here's my newest rejection letter:
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My problem with this response is that, after leaving my application request in the queue for 74 minutes, they gave me the same generic response that they gave me after leaving my previous application request in their queue for 10 days.  They list 6 bullets of what they mean by "insufficient content".  How about if they just come out and say, hey dude, your content sucks, or hey dude, you've got  to have content that shows us (the folks at AdSense) respect for our efforts rather than being a sarcastic tool?

Really!  Really? Really!!!

Found a site that explains AdSense a bit more...

Hey there, one of my friends just turned me on to another website that explains some of the things that you must do prior to successfully applying for an AdSense account.

Here's the URL:

12 Things to Do Before Applying for Google AdSense

One thing that this blog really emphasizes is that you need a Privacy Policy and a Disclosure Policy on your blog before the AdSense gatekeepers will grant you access to the AdSense Kingdom.

So, my blog is running on Blogger.com (as you can see from the URL in your browser's address bar).  Unfortunately, I have yet to find the Blogger.com option that gives me the option of having a custom privacy policy in the footer of my blog.  Big, badda, boom! (oblique reference to the 5th Element)

Update: So, I found a way to include a privacy statement at the bottom of the Blogger page.  To see what I put as our privacy statement, scroll down to the absolute bottom of this web page.  Nothing fancy, but it's still a valid privacy statement.

How to Digitally Sign your Android app.

Another adventure underway.

When I went to my "Developer Console" at developer.android.com, with the goal of taking my first version of the "Oregon Feelings" app and "publishing it" to the "beta channel".

Your AdSense account has been disapproved!

Well, two rounds of applying for an AdSense account and two rounds of denials.  This is kind of a pain in the butt!  All we want is to be able to monetize our Android apps, and the only way that we can find to get an AdSense account is to submit the URL of a website that is worthy of serving up AdSense advertisements, which seems like a totally parallel track to having advertisements and in-app purchases in our Android apps.

Here's what the Google AdSense rejection email looks like:




And, here's what our current Blogger Earnings page looks like after the second round of "disapproval":



So, what's will be our next attempt?  Well, how about submitting the URL of one of our Android apps in the Play Store?

We figure that submitting this URL will be the only real accurate way to show the AdSense gatekeepers the property that we actually spend our time coding, rather than some arbitrary website on which we really have no interest in displaying their ads anyway.

We want to display ads in our Android apps!  We want to offer in-app purchases in our Android apps!

We'll let you know how this new direction in gaining AdSense approval turns out.