AdSense readiness checker
Public-site pre-check before you request Google review — crawl access, trust pages, disclosures, and a bounded content sample. Not an approval guarantee.
What Google expects — in plain language
Criteria from official docs, summarized here
Distilled from AdSense Help and Google Publisher Policies so you do not need to open five tabs. Source links stay available if you want the full wording.
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Site readiness
Google reviews the whole site, not one article. Pages should be finished, navigable, and useful — not stubs, placeholders, or a homepage with nowhere to go.
- Publish real content visitors can browse and understand
- Make Privacy, About, and Contact easy to find
- Keep the site publicly reachable during review
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Eligibility & ownership
Approval also depends on the account and who controls the site. Public HTML cannot prove these — you still have to confirm them yourself.
- Applicant meets Google’s age and country eligibility rules
- You own or fully control the site and can edit its HTML
- The account is in good standing and tasks in AdSense are complete
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Privacy & ad disclosures
If you show ads, visitors need a clear privacy policy that covers cookies, advertising partners (including Google), and how to opt out of personalized ads.
- A linked privacy policy page on the site
- Cookie / personalized advertising language
- Opt-out guidance (for example Ads Settings)
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Publisher policies
Content must be valuable and policy-safe. Google can reject sites for prohibited topics, scraped or thin pages, deceptive UX, or invalid traffic — even when crawl checks look fine.
- Original, useful content you have rights to publish
- No prohibited or restricted categories without compliance
- No purchased, incentivized, or self-click traffic
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AdSense crawler access
Google’s ad crawler (Mediapartners-Google) must be able to reach pages you want to monetize. A sitewide block in robots.txt is a hard stop.
- Do not Disallow: / for Mediapartners-Google
- Avoid blocking the whole site for User-agent: *
- Keep monetized pages indexable unless you have a reason not to
How it works
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Return to the site homepage
An inner page URL is reduced to its site origin because AdSense reviews the website, not just one submitted article.
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Inspect public trust and crawl signals
We check robots.txt, sitemap, ads.txt, indexability, navigation, and discoverable Privacy, About, Contact, and Terms pages.
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Sample content without crawling the whole web
Up to eight unique same-site pages are selected from the sitemap or homepage links and checked for readable depth, headings, indexing, titles, and placeholder language.
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Separate fixes from owner-only review
Public technical findings become a prioritized repair list. Account eligibility, traffic quality, copyright, and policy context remain explicit owner checks.
What the AdSense readiness report checks
The report focuses on publicly verifiable evidence instead of presenting a fake approval probability.
- Homepage reachability, HTTPS, redirect path, robots.txt, and indexability
- Whether a full-site rule blocks Google’s Mediapartners crawler
- XML sitemap, content inventory size, and useful internal navigation
- Public Privacy, About, Contact, and Terms pages
- Advertising and cookie disclosure signals in the privacy page
- A bounded content sample for thin, placeholder, noindex, untitled, or poorly structured pages
- ads.txt format and detected AdSense publisher ID alignment when available
- Owner-only confirmations for account eligibility, traffic, rights, policy, and ad experience
What this score means — and what it does not
The readiness score summarizes measurable public checks. It is not the percentage chance that Google will approve an application. Google can review the entire site and account, while this free tool deliberately limits its crawl and has no access to private AdSense or traffic data.
Content word counts are used only to locate pages worth reviewing. Google does not publish a universal 800-word, 1,000-word, or any other fixed AdSense minimum. A shorter page can still be useful; a longer page can still be repetitive or unoriginal.
Official policy still comes first
Before requesting review, read Google’s current site readiness guidance, Publisher Policies, and Publisher Restrictions. Policies change, and the publisher remains responsible for the complete site.
Frequently asked questions
- Does a passing result guarantee Google AdSense approval?
- No. This is a rules-based pre-check of public website signals. Google makes the final decision and can consider account history, site ownership, traffic quality, originality, policy context, and pages that were not included in our bounded sample.
- Is ads.txt required before applying for AdSense?
- No. Google says ads.txt is not mandatory, although it is highly recommended once you have a publisher ID because it identifies the sellers authorized to sell your inventory. This checker treats a missing ads.txt file as informational rather than an automatic failure.
- How many pages does the checker inspect?
- It fetches the homepage, public support files, common trust pages, and up to eight unique content pages discovered through the XML sitemap or homepage links. Inventory size is counted from discoverable URLs; the body sample stays bounded — not a full-site crawl.
- Does Google require a minimum article word count?
- Google does not publish a universal minimum word count for AdSense approval. This report still uses stricter practical bars (roughly 300+ homepage words, 500+ median sample depth, zero thin pages under ~300 words, and a stretch bar near 800+) because thin sites often look “fine” on crawl checks alone. Those markers are readiness heuristics, not official Google thresholds.
- Does the tool use AI to judge originality or prohibited content?
- No. The free check uses transparent rules and does not pretend it can prove originality, copyright ownership, or every policy category from a small crawl. Those items are marked Review so the site owner can verify them against current Google Publisher Policies.
- What information is sent to the checker?
- Only the public domain or URL you submit. TheSeoSoul fetches publicly accessible pages and files from its servers. It does not request your AdSense login, analytics account, Search Console, or private traffic data.
Keep going
What to check next
Use the readiness report for monetization prep, then inspect the overlapping technical signals in more detail.
- Robots.txtCrawl rules, Sitemaps, AI bot blocks
- NoindexMeta robots & X-Robots-Tag
- RedirectsHop chain & status codes
- Full auditMeta · Structure · Technical · GEO in one report
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