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.
Do not push every event into search if some records are too thin to stand on their own.
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Do not publish many near-duplicate pages.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.

Low-value content recovery pass

Keep thin automatic event records inside the app instead of promoting them as standalone search pages.
Index only current opportunities with enough factual detail, official-source context, and practical application guidance.
Use original guides to answer real decisions photographers make before they pay a fee, travel, print work, or submit rights-sensitive images.
Make each page useful before ads appear on it. A page should still feel worth visiting if all advertising is removed.

Editorial proof points

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.
ads.txt should be reachable at the site root and match your AdSense publisher ID.
Editorial Policy and Corrections Policy should be linked from trust pages and the main footer.
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.

7. Approval expectation

AdSense approval is still an account-side review, not a code-only task. The technical goal is to avoid preventable issues such as blocked crawling, missing ads.txt, weak trust pages, or thin editorial content.

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