AdSense Preflight

What to check right before you apply to AdSense.

This page is focused on approval risk, not on SEO submission. Use it when the site is already live and you want one last pass on quality, trust, and user experience before sending an AdSense application.

1. Originality and usefulness

Make sure the site is not just a thin index of listings.
Keep directly written pages visible: Guides, Site Notes, Editorial Notes, Search & AI Notes, Common Questions.
Remove or improve any page that feels generic, repetitive, or too short to stand on its own.

2. Trust pages

Keep About, Contact, Privacy, and Methodology easy to find.
Make sure the homepage and footer link to those pages normally.
Use real contact details and avoid looking anonymous or unfinished.

3. User experience

Users should reach the promised information quickly.
Avoid clutter, dead ends, broken links, and misleading navigation.
Keep the homepage focused and make support content secondary, not blocking discovery.

4. Quality red flags

Do not publish many near-duplicate pages.
Do not stuff titles or descriptions with repeated keywords.
Do not make people click through several weak pages just to reach the actual content.

5. Technical sanity check

Homepage, sitemap, RSS, and important pages should load with HTTP 200.
Canonical URLs should be stable.
robots.txt should not block the pages you want indexed.
Search Console and Naver submissions should already be done.

6. Practical go / no-go rule

If the site looks useful and trustworthy even without ads, it is usually closer to AdSense-ready. If it still looks like it exists mainly to capture search traffic and monetize later, wait and improve the content first.

For actual submission steps, see Search Console, Naver, And AdSense Checklist.