AdSense Readiness Audit

Structural & technical checklist we run before a domain goes into moderation

Sample report on a fictional demo domain — shows the checks, not a real site
70%

example-blog-demo.com — 7 of 10 checks pass

3 fixable gaps found before submission. Fixing these doesn't guarantee Google's approval — it removes the reasons a review usually gets rejected for.

Required pages

Privacy Policy — missingAdSense program policies require a visible, linked Privacy Policy page. No page found at /privacy or in the footer nav.
About page — present/about found, linked from main navigation.
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Contact page — present but not linked in nav/contact exists but isn't reachable from the header/footer menu — reviewers navigate like a visitor, not by guessing URLs.

Technical

ads.txt — not found at domain rootexample-blog-demo.com/ads.txt returns 404. Without it, AdSense flags the account as unable to verify authorized sellers.
robots.txt — not blocking crawlersNo Disallow rules covering the pages that need indexing.
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Page speed — mobile LCP 4.1sAbove the 2.5s "good" threshold — slow pages hurt review pass-through and future RPM alike.

Content & navigation

Minimum content volume — OK18 published posts, average 640 words — clears the "sufficient original content" bar.
Navigation menu — consistent across pagesSame header/footer nav present sitewide, no dead links found.
No policy-violating content detectedNo adult, violent or copyright-flagged material found in a manual pass over the site's pages.
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Duplicate meta descriptions on 4 pagesMinor, but worth fixing — thin/duplicate signals add up during automated review.
This is exactly the kind of report the domain gets before we submit it: what's missing, what's borderline, what's already fine. Approval itself is Google's call — we fix everything on our side, submit, and act fast on whatever the review response comes back with.
Own demo build by GuardLabs — sample audit format, fictional domain. Real technical/SEO delivery on this account: SLUG+301 redirect cleanup (Сейф, closed), WordPress + on-page SEO tranches (paid), JSON-LD/Rich-Results structured-data stand — guardlabs.online/demo/ald-schema-fix. Not an AdSense-specific delivered project — the checklist above is the same technical-audit method applied to AdSense's own requirements.