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AdSense Denied my Site??

I was going to cleanly (as possible) add a few ads to TokyoSpark — but AdSense denied it, saying they don’t accept “under construction” sites.

It’s 6 months old, 83 articles written. I don’t say “under construction” anywhere.

So I assumed it was the

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    In my one-person opinion, it looks like the type of spammy ads that show up at the bottom of or articles on spammy news sites. It might be the headlines, or the visual styling, but it looks suspicious to me on my phone.

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      Damn Outbrain... ruining a good design pattern. :)

      I've switched the layout to an image list. How does it look now?

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      That wasn't it. It has been approved now.

      Only thing I can think of is the design maybe appeared at first to be "under construction" in some way due to the opt-in box on the homepage.

      Or the grid of posts maybe appeared very "Outbrain" ad netowrk like.

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