Senseless, Nonsense called AdSense

I am writing this post with utter frustration. I don’t know what the people in Google are doing and why their systems are so sucked up.

Let me begin by going back to my last post on my YouTube Monetization issue, you might want read about my sufferings here.

http://theritespace.blogspot.in/2014/01/monetizing-video-on-youtube-phew-my.html

 

AdSense  trying to make sense

Now after that ordeal, I was at least happy that my AdSense account was partially approved and that it showed that just AdSense for content review is pending. Oh BTW my adsense account is linked to this blog and not my YouTube Account, so I just gave the AdSense account details to Youtube, because I use the same ID to sign in. So my YouTube account said your account is now linked to the adsense account provided. I was happy that the step one was completed. Whenever I logged in into my Adsense account it used to show me two notifications.

Notification 1 : Your Adsense for content review is pending and your earnings will show up depending on the fact whether its Approved or Disapproved.

Notification 2 : Your YouTube Earnings will be credited to your AdSense account at the 15^th of every month. 

I was also happy about the fact that there was one video on my YouTube account that was monetized and I will at least get peanut payments out of it. I need to tell  that all my content was original and I had about 500 visitors per day on to my blog because i was promoting the blog on all available platforms. 

AdSense no its AdNonSense

Sure, enough after a few days of waiting and logging in and out of my AdSense account and seeing the same notifications every day , Yesterday I received a mail from google Adsense.

As mentioned in our welcome email, we conduct a second review of your AdSense application once AdSense code is placed on your site(s). As a result of this review, we have disapproved your account for the following violation(s):

Issues:
Site does not comply with Google policies 

So I say all these days of waiting has gone down the drain and I am pretty sure no one ever bothered to check the content of the blog or for that matter even read it. Fine, I will have to apply again. Resigned to the fact I go to my YouTube account and the YouTube account shows that your adsense account is connected to, so I click to change AdSense account setting, Google asks me to re confirm my password and it takes me to the page which asks me to resubmit my application for AdSense and the URL link is my blog http://theritespace.blogspot.in/ that makes very little sense to me as I am trying to find out about my YouTube earnings and not my blogger earnings.  Fine, so it’s the URL I used to submit my application in the first place and they are showing it. But since I want to connect my YouTube channel I want to change that URL and Google doesn’t allow it.   

Fine so how do I see my YOUTUBE EARNINGS.  The answer to this question comes in the form of a mail from YouTube the next day.

Dear Gaurav Ail,

You may have recently closed your AdSense account or received an email from adsense-noreply@google.com about your AdSense application being disapproved. Without a valid AdSense account, you cannot participate in YouTube's monetization programs.

To associate an approved AdSense account with YouTube, please visit your Monetization tab. If you are not eligible for this feature and manage your account in CMS, please visit your AdSense Setting.

Wow so since you disapproved my AdSense account because you didn’t find content appealing in my blog you tell me that your monetization of your YouTube account has been stopped and you can do nothing about it. I go to the monetization settings and what do I see there a RED DOT . So since the red dot is there I can’t do anything about it and I mean absolutely nothing, I can’t even switch to a new AdSense account  ( of course I will have to go through this brain draining process again for that ) because there is a bloody RED DOT. 

Senseless AdSense

So my only option is to try and re submit my application using my blog URL even if I want to Monetize the videos on my YouTube account and then wait for some divine intervention for the computers which operate the Google servers to approve my application. Totally Nonsense. I don’t understand why is AdSense required in the first place. I put in a request , you verify my Youtube video every time I upload it. So, you will be putting adverts to it only if the video is with agreement of google guidelines. One of my videos even managed that and was readily monetizing. But, only because the AdSense account got disapproved, you take off all my earnings from YouTube as well. Why can’t google ask for a direct account number to pay the money or make the payments through Paypal. WHY ADSENSE. 

Disapproved after First Approval

The fact of the matter is that Google holds a monopoly in the online advertising market and is being too senseless about it. If I want to monetize my blog or my YouTube account and it’s your platform and you are the only ones who can host adverts there , at least keep a team to analyze the data and verify it. Further why should the URL be static and not changeable. I mean I understand people do tend to make multiple applications, but the point here is that people still do that , but they do that by creating multiple gmail id’s, and what if in the first place someone has done a spelling mistake while typing the URL itself.

Making an Adsense account compulsory for everything and shutting down payments in one platform if the account gets disapproved for CONTENT in another platform is stupid and senseless. Then why give a first stage approval in the first place and allow to connect the YouTube account to it if you mean to disapprove the AdSense account completely and chuck both the connections. I mean I can’t monetize my YouTube content even when i am at a good standing just because I don’t have an approved adsense account , and I can’t even take approval using my YouTube channel just because the URL supplied to you is that of my Blog. This is total nonsense and doesn’t make sense.

I just hope that some other provider is able to break Google’s stranglehold on the online advertising market and make life better for us.

A life lived well REALLY

Money, why is it always about money, why does it become the ultimate motivator for everything. I mean what we need in life, is a place to stay and food to eat. The luxuries of life can be found in simple things as well. But, its always about more. So, is it money or is it ambition or is it just greed. When we have a house, we want a bigger house. When we have a car, we want a bigger car. When we have a smart phone, we want a smarter phone. When we can afford to eat simple food, we want to eat in an expensive restaurant.  We always want things which are out of our reach, we always want what we don’t have. Yes you can call it being ambitious. Some people term it wanting a better life. But, what is a better life, what is it that can be termed that this is a better life or the ultimate example of a great life. Does it mean having a big house, luxury cars, servants, the best of everything that is available on the planet currently. Most, of us yearn for all these things and firmly believe that these will give us a better life and those of us who have these things yearn for more. Once we have the best we will yearn for something which is better than the best.  So, what is ambition if not greed.

                Ask yourself, what according to you is a life well lived, a life filled with the thought of having more and more, or a life where your mind is at peace, with what you have. So, let us think about the mind for a moment. The thinking prowess that we have, because of the fact that we are human beings. It’s the mind which tells us that this is better and that is not. We think therefore we are. The point here is that we are constantly thinking of better things in life that we forget to appreciate the good things we have with us. A person who always keeps wanting is someone who’s mind is not at peace, do you think you can lead a good life if your mind is not at peace and you are constantly in a state of chaos. The truth is what we are ultimately searching for is a calm state of mind. We dream, we yearn and all the while we keep thinking that this is what I want, and soon enough the want becomes the need, and our mind is not at peace till the moment we fulfill that need. So, ultimately what we all want is to put our mind at peace. An unsettled mind is what fuels that hunger that ambition.

                Every one leads their own life and everyone wants to lead it their own way. It’s up to you what you want to do and what you ultimately end up doing. Remember, money is not something that should motivate you, never do anything for money. Rather, do something you like you love to do and money will flow eventually. The most successful people in this world are those people who have done what they wanted to do and they are successful because they love what they do and enjoy it. Whatever, you do in life always do it with all honesty and integrity and when you dream, don’t dream of materialistic pleasures, dream about what makes you happy, and then work on fulfilling these dreams. That’s how real happiness will come into your life. These are my views I am no preacher, no psychologist, I am just a dreamer like all of you. Like you I have heard the line I think therefore I am, but for me its I dream therefore I am.