Indie dev's new site passes AdSense review in 37 hours: traffic and content quality are the keys
gefei55 · x · 2026-10-24
Indie developer gefei55 shares a hands-on AdSense approval case: his new site launched Oct 21 at 5pm, ad code was added and submitted around 1am on the 23rd, and approval came at 3pm on the 24th — just 37 hours.
Pushing back on the common claim that AdSense approval is now very hard, he attributes rejections mainly to: 1) insufficient site traffic; 2) insufficient content quality. He also clarifies that 'two years later' refers to his two-year break from building ad-monetized sites, not two years of rejections.
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