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AdSense eligibility & readiness checker

Check AdSense eligibility signals visible on the public web: crawl access, trust pages, disclosures, navigation, and a bounded content sample. Use the readiness report before you apply; Google alone decides whether a site is approved.

Live public-site pre-check

Check a website

No login · ~25 evidence checks · homepage, trust pages, then up to eight content URLs

An honest eligibility check

What the tool can verify — and what it cannot

A public crawl can find useful evidence, but it cannot see your account, prove authorship, audit every traffic source, or reproduce Google's review. The report keeps that boundary visible.

Automatically checked

Public website signals

  • Reachability, HTTPS, redirects, robots.txt, and page-level indexability
  • Discoverable Privacy, About, Contact, and Terms pages
  • Privacy-page references to cookies, advertising, and user choices
  • Sitemap, ads.txt, internal navigation, and a bounded sample of public pages
  • Missing titles, weak heading structure, placeholder text, and unusually sparse pages that deserve review

Requires human or Google review

Account, rights, policy, and final approval

  • Your age, country availability, identity, account standing, and completed AdSense tasks
  • Whether you own the content, control the site, and hold the necessary rights
  • Originality, usefulness, policy context, and the quality of pages outside the sample
  • Traffic sources, invalid activity, ad placement, and the complete visitor experience
  • The final approval decision, which belongs to Google alone

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.

  1. 01

    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
    Full Google document: AdSense Help — site readiness
  2. 02

    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
    Full Google document: AdSense Help — eligibility
  3. 03

    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)
    Full Google document: AdSense Help — privacy content
  4. 04

    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
    Full Google document: Google Publisher Policies
  5. 05

    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
    Full Google document: AdSense Help — crawler access

How it works

  1. 01

    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.

  2. 02

    Inspect public trust and crawl signals

    We check robots.txt, sitemap, ads.txt, indexability, navigation, and discoverable Privacy, About, Contact, and Terms pages.

  3. 03

    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.

  4. 04

    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.

Scenarios

Common AdSense Rejection Reasons & Fixes

Understanding why Google rejects monetization requests helps you fix the root architectural and content issues before re-applying:

Low Value Content

Thin or AI-Generated Placeholder Pages

The Problem: Applying with only 5–10 short or repetitive articles triggering the dreaded 'Low value content' rejection.

The Fix: Build at least 20–30 original, high-utility articles with unique insights, structured headings, and zero placeholder text.

Trust & Compliance

Missing Mandatory Legal Pages

The Problem: Lacking explicit Privacy Policy, About Us, Contact, or Terms of Service links in the footer navigation.

The Fix: Publish dedicated trust pages with working contact forms/emails and explicit third-party cookie/advertising disclosures.

Crawl Blockers

Blocking Mediapartners-Google in robots.txt

The Problem: A strict robots.txt disallowing Google's contextual advertising crawler from analyzing page content.

The Fix: Ensure User-agent: Mediapartners-Google is allowed access to all public content areas.

Official policy & ads.txt implementation

When approved, place an ads.txt file in your root domain to prevent unauthorized inventory spoofing:

Standard Google AdSense ads.txt Entrytext
# Replace pub-0000000000000000 with your actual publisher ID
google.com, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

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

How can I check AdSense eligibility before applying?
Start with two separate checks. Confirm the account-level requirements yourself — including age, country availability, ownership, and control of the site — then use this checker to inspect public website-readiness signals such as crawler access, trust pages, disclosures, navigation, and sampled content. Google verifies the complete account and site during review.
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?
No universal minimum word count is published for AdSense approval. The report uses content length only as a readiness heuristic to flag unusually sparse or placeholder-like pages for human review — not as a Google requirement or proof of quality. A page should complete its intended job with original, useful information; adding filler does not make low-value content valuable.
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.

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What to check next

Use the readiness report for monetization prep, then inspect the overlapping technical signals in more detail.

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