Alternatives to Google Adsense & platforms that work with them

ThaiDreamer

ThaiDreamer

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Hi BHW,

I'm growing a site in the tourist/travel niche with mostly AI content, although in very human and interactive language and form. Before publishing any article, it's verified, fact-checked, and corrected by a human, with additional graphics, tables, and internal linking in place.

The site is in a European language, Tier 1 country.

The design of the site is completely on point across all devices, especially compared to other sites in the niche.

I've just had my second application for Google Adsense rejected.

I'm wondering if there are any alternatives I can use to monetize a site like this with ads, using another platform? I know Ezoic works with Google and I assume so does Mediavine.

The site is regularly hitting around 1,000 organic views per day. Organic traffic above 99%.

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You can consider SHE Media, or Monumetric to monetize your site. These platforms don’t rely solely on google Adsense and may offer better approval chances for your niche and traffic volume
 
ThaiDreamer said:
The site is regularly hitting around 1,000 organic views per day. Organic traffic above 99%.
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If at least 50% of that traffic is US, I highly recommend you try MediaVine's journey program.

Though the approval may take sometimes. Other times it takes 3 weeks.
 
How many posts do your website have? Because if you are getting that much organic views, your website shouldn't be getting rejected for low value content.
 
HenryObi said:
If at least 50% of that traffic is US, I highly recommend you try MediaVine's journey program.

Though the approval may take sometimes. Other times it takes 3 weeks.
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I applied almost 3 months ago and it's still pending... not rejected, but pending. I still have their Grow plugin running on my site.

But won't I need to be approved in Google Adsense to work with Mediavine - similar to what's happening at Ezoic?

From what I read on the day of application, they don't have minimum US traffic requirements. Has that changed?

Enchant said:
How many posts do your website have? Because if you are getting that much organic views, your website shouldn't be getting rejected for low value content.
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Roughly 600.
 
ThaiDreamer said:
But won't I need to be approved in Google Adsense to work with Mediavine - similar to what's happening at Ezoic?
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No, you don't need Adsense.
ThaiDreamer said:
From what I read on the day of application, they don't have minimum US traffic requirements. Has that changed?
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I can't remember where I saw it, but it said 50% US traffic. Remember their main offering has such requirements amd journey is not very much different from their main offering (according to them).
 
Enchant said:
You shouldn't be getting denied, unless your content looks spammy like it was written with AI. I got Adsense approval with 5 posts on a new website within a week,
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Does your site look good design wise? Also what specific steps you took to get approved by adsense? Will appreciate if you can answer.
 
doxul said:
Does your site look good design wise? Also what specific steps you took to get approved by adsense? Will appreciate if you can answer.
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Yeah, my site looks great design wise. I just wrote a few post, make sure I used custom images, infographics and stuff like that in the post. A long with youtube videos or other materials to make the content look well put together and not like some spam content. And all I needed was 5 good post like this.
 
Enchant said:
You shouldn't be getting denied, unless your content looks spammy like it was written with AI. I got Adsense approval with 5 posts on a new website within a week,
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Maybe that's the key. I should have written 10 hand-made, long-form articles on point with everything and then start pumping out more AI content after getting accepted.

Any clues on how to make it less spammy?

90%+ articles are above 600 words in length, some well above that, all have at least 1 unique graphic, all have internal linking, natural, first-person writing style with believable first-hand experiences mentioned throughout the content, author box with genuine IG and Facebook accounts.
 
ThaiDreamer said:
Maybe that's the key. I should have written 10 hand-made, long-form articles on point with everything and then start pumping out more AI content after getting accepted.

Any clues on how to make it less spammy?

90%+ articles are above 600 words in length, some well above that, all have at least 1 unique graphic, all have internal linking, natural, first-person writing style with believable first-hand experiences mentioned throughout the content, author box with genuine IG and Facebook accounts.
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You might have to get rid of most of these articles man, and do 10 well written ones with custom images and infographics. I did stuff like this myself with Canva. This is how you make your content look less spammy.
 
Enchant said:
You might have to get rid of most of these articles man, and do 10 well written ones with custom images and infographics. I did stuff like this myself with Canva. This is how you make your content look less spammy.
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By custom images you mean?
 
ThaiDreamer said:
By custom images you mean?
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Let's say the article refers to some data, I use Canva and make a graph with infographics that reflects this data. Recently I also started using AI to generate custom images as well for different section of the article. So i'm not taking stock images from other places and just sticking it in my post.
 
ThaiDreamer said:
By custom images you mean?
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Either use royalty free images or create the images yourself.

Are these AI images? That may have something to do with it, if so.

Right now, good long-form content is where it's at. 500-700 words was the sweet spot for so long and I believe Google is moving away from it.

Also, if you're responding to multiple people in the thread, moving forward please use the multi-quote feature explained here: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/how-to-use-the-multiquote-feature-on-bhw.975670/
 
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