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Display ads for site owners. The default first ad partner, and the one with the hardest payout floor.

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Counts, not a score. 6 of 8 things we look for are published by Google AdSense, and 2 we have not checked yet. A ratio would need a denominator from outside this site. A count does not.

What it costs you

What it really costs to startAll in, not the first-year promotional price.Free to join. Google charges publishers nothing to sign up for or run AdSense; the only entry cost is your own site and hosting.Free to join · source · checked 2026-09-07

What it costs to keep alivePer year, once the introductory pricing is over.No recurring fee. The ongoing cost is the revenue share: publishers receive 80% of AdSense for Content revenue after the buy-side platform's fee.Revenue share, not a fee · source · checked 2026-09-07

The gate before the first cent

The gate before it pays anythingThe traffic, sales or balance you must reach before a single cent moves.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

How long before the first paymentThe gap you have to fund out of your own pocket.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

Is it yours or theirs

Who owns what you buildYours, or a room you are allowed to sit in until the rules change?You own the site. AdSense only runs on a site you own and can edit; Google verifies ownership before opening the account and takes no stake in the content.Publisher owns the site · source · checked 2026-09-07

Can you take it with youThe domain, the list, the content. What actually leaves with you.Reports export to Google Sheets, XLSX or CSV. The site, content and audience stay on your own hosting; only the AdSense account itself is tied to Google.Reports export to CSV · source · checked 2026-09-07

Can it be soldIs there a resale market, and what does it pay?The account cannot be sold. AdSense terms do not permit transfers of account ownership; only name and address corrections are allowed.No account transfer · source · checked 2026-09-07

What takes it all awayThe single rule, ban or dependency that ends it overnight.Google can cut ad serving or disable the account at any time for policy breaches, and a disabled account is barred from the programme for good.Account disabled at any time · source · checked 2026-09-07

How to read this page

The ten things above are not our idea of what matters. They are what the checklists in twenty hand-written articles on this site already asked, counted up: country and eligibility came first in nineteen of them, waiting time and what you are paid in came next. The payout minimum, the number most people search for, barely appeared. It is one row here, not the headline.

A row marked not publishedmeans we opened the company's own pages looking for it and it was not there. That is a finding, and it is dated. A row marked not checked yet means we have not done the work. Those two are kept apart on purpose: an empty box because we were slow should never look like an empty box because they were quiet.

Found something that has moved? Tell us. It gets checked against the source and the change is dated on the corrections page.

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