If you run a website and are looking to make a long term income from it then Google AdSense is one of the best things that you can put on it.

But getting an AdSense account can be very troublesome for a lot of people, indeed in some countries such as India and China your website must have been up and running for at least six months, and sadly if you live in one of those countries there is no way around this time limit.

This means if you live there and apply for an AdSense account before your site has been running for six months then your application will be turned down, and sometimes this time limit will not be stated as the reason why, the response will most likely be an email stating that your site does not comply with AdSense policies - In reality this email is correct, as the onus is on you to make sure that your site complies for your countries policy, and in the case of India and China this means it has to have been running for six months.

So before applying for an account make sure you have read the guidelines on applying, they are there for a reason so read them. Fail to read them or follow them and you will get turned down, which just leads to you getting annoyed or frustrated thinking the AdSense application team are being awkward, when the reality of it is that it is down to you simply not reading and observing them.

So read the guidelines and the Terms Of Service (TOS), and make sure you follow them before applying to the program.

Very careful attention needs to be paid to the TOS as if you also fail to observe them then your application will get turned down at the first hurdle. As an example many people fail to note that every site needs to have a privacy policy to comply with Google TOS, so if your site has not got one, and a link to it from every page on your site then expect your application to fail.

Of note that the TOS and the website compliance guidelines apply to all of your sites, and whilst you are free to use AdSense on other sites when your account has been approved, failure to observe the TOS and the guidelines on your other sites is likely to result in an AdSense ban.