Adsense

treyb

Has anyone had success with getting AdSense approved for your forum? They do not provide much information on why it gets declined though. Just curious how its gone for others.

Umutcan

treyb If you are sure you did everything right and are getting organic traffic, send it for approval one after the other. Try sending it for approval 5 times if necessary.

The tip I can recommend is to make sure that the contact information of your AdSense account is the same as the name on your site's author pages or about us pages.

Wellwisher

I kinda skim-read your content. It's prolly because your site is selling tickets. Google restricts ticket seller ads. They have their own strict vetting process for them. This prevents audiences from being scammed etc. Those who want to advertise tickets on adsense, need some sort of a certification from google. Theres a form you need to fill out and then they will review it on an ad-hoc basis. Might be worth checking this out:
https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/7577050?hl=en

From my understanding, I know, you're not trying to publish ads on adsense. but nevertheless, due to this restriction, it makes sense why google would decline these types of sites. If you were to get the certification, it might get approved.

Lumeinshin

pretty much what @Wellwisher said, google can be quite strict in its requirements and go from happy with the site contents to not rather quickly.
Their dashboard will tell you where the issues are and why.. not in much detail but usually enough to get the gist
Really depends on the contents of the site. Threads and posts are considered in the process

treyb

Thanks everyone. Maybe it is related to ticket sales. I’ve gone through all the links in the denial, but it’s so generic most don’t apply, and what did apply was not an issue for my site. I will try the form to see. I hate how my site ends up being punished some times. I just want to help people avoid Facebook group scams, and paying Ticketmaster a fortune haha.

I did get denied running ads on Reddit last week because it’s a ticket site too. TM probably has people paid off 🙂

Subarist

I would say, before submitting your Google Ads application, try removing words related to buy or selling from the homepage. Using "information exchange" instead is a good approach.

Restrict certain tags related to actual transactions so that only logged-in members can access them.

Then, give it some time—usually, it’s not too difficult.

After approval, you can adjust things back while ensuring compliance with their usage policies.