How to Apply to Google's AdSense Program

Google AdSense is currently open to any English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, or Turkish language websites, and add new languages are added all the time. You don't need to be based in the United States to participate.

Google AdSense offers payment to publishers in US dollar checks, and also offers local currency options for publishers in 43 countries.

Applying to the Google AdSense program is extremely easy and just takes a few minutes. Simply visit the

Hearing Back From Google

Google says it will just take two or three days to receive your acceptance or rejection. Google often responds even more quickly.

Naturally, Google reserves the right to reject sites -- and they do. For example, they will reject sites on drugs, pornography, or gambling. They will also reject personal pages, sites with excessive advertising or other content-targeted or text-based ads, incentives of clicking on the keywords, profanity, or hate of any sort.

We recommend you read all of Google's Program Policies before you apply.

And if you haven't yet checked out our free Google AdSense Web Tool, we recommend you do so now -- before you apply. This tool allows you to peek at which Google AdWords may be displayed on your site. It also provides six suggestions for using the AdSense Web Tool to maximize your AdSense revenue