Google Adsense said We're working on setting you up

I was stumbled on the Google AdSense notification "We're working on setting you up, this usually take less than a day but in some cases it could take a little bit longer. We'll notify you when everything is ready. Then start earning money by placing ads". What does it means? How long is the setting up process will take? Will our Google AdSense application be approved some day?

"We are working on setting you up" Notification in Google Adsense

Many people want to be publisher of Google AdSense. There are several steps in Google AdSense application. Some people can follow the step easily without any obstacles. Some other don't. I was one of people who had many obstacles during the process of Google AdSense application. In this article i would like to share my experience handling the issue above. One of the road block to be Google AdSense Publisher.

Anyway, you can avoid the road block if you're blog has three basic quality of Blog that eligible for Google AdSense application.

Further reading:

• Three Basic Quality of Blog For Google AdSense

Google Adsense Notification : We're Working On Setting You Up

After the notification, I checked my Google email regularly to see if there was any news from Google AdSense. I thought it will took less than a day to process the AdSense application because they said so. I checked my mail every hours, every time i open my Android phone. After some time, I realized that it could be more than one day to set up the Google AdSense account.

After one week, i checked my email and found nothing. In this phase i became anxious and thinking what could be wrong with my blog. The waiting process without notification is very irritating. It feels that nothing i can do to speed up the process or to know whether my account will be approved in weeks, months, years or even never will.

In this phase i become frustrating and thinking about creating another Google Account, transfer my blog and re-apply the same blog to different Google Adsense Account. I'm also thinking about transferring my other blog to other Google Account so i can apply for Google AdSense program with different blog. In this case i have tried the second idea.

Read also:

• How to transfer your blog to another Google account

I created another Google account, i transferred my other Blog to the new Google account and apply the Google AdSense program. I thought that the process will be faster since i have corrected any deviation that has potential issue on Google AdSense Application in the new blog. In fact, after sometime i got the same notification that my account is setting up for my second blog.

"We're working on setting you up, this usually take less than a day but in some cases it could take a little bit longer. We'll notify you when everything is ready. Then start earning money by placing ads."

It seems like another loop from my previous Google AdSense application. I haven't give up yet. I try to find information about this case in Internet and how to solve this problem. I found the articles in Google AdSense product forum. It put my mind at ease knowing that i'm not the only one facing this problem. There are a lot of people who have the similar problem with me.

The notification on Google AdSense make us have high expectation on the process. They said usually take less than one day or a little bit longer. That's why most of people become impatient. They expect the process will be fast since the notification said so.

Apply for Google AdSense is very easy, however the approval might take some iteration effort back and forward just like my experience. We can avoid this iteration if we read Google AdSense policy and learned type of rejection message from Google.

Further reading:

• Why did Google AdSense rejected my application, Type of rejection message and the solution

The Google answer of keyword "We're working on Setting You Up Google Adsense

What is the answer of this problem? The expert said that typically it will take at least two or three weeks for an application to complete processing and have a decision rendered by AdSense. He also said that there are 3 things that can cause delay in processing Google AdSense application.

1. Improper implementation of the Code.
2. New site with no organic search traffic.
3. Established site with no organic search traffic

Further reading:

• Three Basic Quality of Blog For Google AdSense

Those answer actually doesn't satisfy me since my blog is already more than 2 years with 500 page views every days. I almost giving up and try another monetizing strategy. Until an email come from Google AdSense team notified me that my Google Account AdSense has been full approved. It took 40 days from the latest notification saying that my account was rejected. These are the complete story.

1. I start the blog on August 1st, 2015 (Blog B)
2. I have another blog that i used to apply Google Adsense (Blog A) in the same Google account as Blog B. I made this Blog A in 2009, contain several articles, it has organic traffic but unfortunately  it was not well designed.
3. My Google AdSense Aplication using blog A was rejected due to several issue like the content and the policy. 
4. I still writing on Blog B and  manage blog B properly. It has more than 50 articles and 500 page views every day.
5. I want to change the blog that i used for Google AdSense application with Blog B.
6.  Unfortunately we can not change the blog, it is Google Policy.
7. I create another Google account and transfer Blog B to new Google Account
8. On Sept 03rd, 2017 i applied on Google AdSense program with new Google Account (with Blog B)
9. On Sept 04th, my application was rejected due to policy issue
10. I suspect there is one articles that against Google Policy.
11. I resubmit the application after remove this article
12. I've got the notification said "We're working on setting you up"
13. The rest story are described in above articles
14. I've got the approval on October 13th, 2017

Following Google AdSense policy is very important. I've checked on blog there is article about how to download video from Youtube. This article is against Google Policy. I tried to remove this article and resubmit the application. After several days, I got an email told me that my application has been fully approved.

Learning from my experience, if you got notification "We're working on setting you up" please be patient and wait for the notification while checking and improving the blog. Check the Google Adsense Code configuration in Global Tag, Check the Google AdSense code and keep writing the good content. As long as our blog follow Google AdSense policy and it has organic traffic, so it will be matter of time our Account will be approved.

Another learning from my experience, don't be so hurry applying for Google AdSense if our blog is still not ready. There are 3 qualities that we need before applying Google AdSense. The first is a lot quality post. The second quality is the blog drive by organic traffic and the third quality is the blog should obey the Google AdSense Policy. As long as we can maintain those three quality, we will okay. The last tips is to ask other people opinion about your blog before apply for Google AdSense.

So if you just a click a way from submitting Google AdSense application, please learn from my experience first. It is better to fix the issue before application rather than waiting this long review from Google AdSense and found that there are many gap in our blog to Google AdSense policy. Please read other article about 10 things to consider before Apply for Google AdSense.

Further reading:

• 10 things to consider before apply for Google AdSense

I'm gladly to help you if you have the same problem as i did. Feel free to ask on comment or reach me through my email.

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