The discussion revolves around getting a Discourse forum approved for AdSense ads after being declined due to a policy violation. WaitroseCarpark initially received the rejection notice citing “dynamic content” as the primary focus of the page. After seeking advice, it was suggested that third-party plugins or unmoderated content could be the cause.
WaitroseCarpark suspected that profanity in a thread title might have contributed to the decline. michaeld emphasized the importance of heavy moderation when using AdSense on a forum to avoid account suspension.
Ultimately, WaitroseCarpark was approved after taking several steps, including:
Adding a privacy policy banner
Removing profanities from post topic titles
Ensuring clear listing of Privacy/Terms/Contact info
Pinning a post for first-time users about Terms and Privacy policy
Terrapop mentioned a forthcoming plugin integrating Google Cloud Vision API to help with content moderation.
I’m wondering whether anyone has recently (eg within the past few months) managed to get their site approved for AdSense ads.
I submitted mine and got declined for the following policy violation reason:
You need to fix some things before using AdSense
We’ve found policy violations on https://myforumurl that are preventing your site from being approved:
Dynamic content
Publishers may not place Google ads on pages or apps where dynamic content (e.g. live chats, instant messaging, auto-refreshing comments, etc.) is the primary focus of the page or app.
I can’t really argue that the pages don’t contain dynamic content or that it isn’t the primary focus of the page or app, eh? Unless I wrap the forum inside a Wordpress instance??
Has anyone managed to get approved recently? Or if you had this issue, what did you do to resolve it?
Just the discourse-sitemap and discourse-adplugin (currently configured to use amazon (until I get adsense approved)). Think that might be something to do with it?
I’m wondering whether it was because there was some profanity in one of the thread titles (that was the title of a film) so wonder if I got declined for that.
That certainly would not have helped.
If you run Adsense on content that is clearly controlled by third parties, you’re likely to get banned (or not accepted).
Always make sure to moderate heavily if you want to use Adsense on your forum, or you’ll lose your account the first time someone uploads a picture of a nude woman holding a gun and they notice it before you do.